Practice Management News

SAN FRANCISCO — The FBI’s San Francisco field office is working with schools and local communities to create multidisciplinary cross-functional teams to prevent violence, FBI special agent Greg A. Concepcion says in this Healio video.

The use of an automated bilingual digital health tool significantly reduced the number of binge drinking episodes among Hispanic patients in the ED, representing a viable option for addressing health disparities, according to researchers.

SAN FRANCISCO — Today’s psychotherapy has evolved to incorporate psychobiology and neuroscience, David J. Hellerstein, MD, says in this Healio video at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.

SAN FRANCISCO — Among people with multimorbidity, those with greater religiosity or spirituality were more likely to seek out a religious or spiritual leader for their mental health concerns before looking to a mental health professional.

SAN FRANCISCO — Among people with schizophrenia, lifetime duration of cannabis use was associated with cognitive function, according to a poster presented at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

SAN FRANCISCO — Nutritional psychiatry is a new term that encompasses the bidirectional brain-gut microbiome activity, Bhagwan A. Bahroo, MD, says in this Healio video at the American Psychiatric Association meeting.

SAN FRANCISCO — The COVID-19 pandemic presented challenges to medical professionals in caring for their own mental health.

SAN FRANCISCO — For patients with treatment-resistant major depressive disorder, deep transcranial magnetic stimulation significantly improved symptoms and quality of life compared with sham, according to a poster presented here.

SAN FRANCISCO — Providing educational resources to people who serve as authority figures in the lives of children and young people may enable prevention and earlier treatment of mental illness, a presenter here said.

With the country in the midst of a national emergency in pediatric mental health, we spoke with Marian Earls, MD, chair of the AAP’s council on healthy mental and emotional development, about the crisis and the resources available to pediatricians caring for patients with mental health issues.