Practice Management News

Universal screening helped identify high school students at risk for suicide and made them more likely to engage in mental health treatment, according to study findings published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

For older adults with dementia and comorbid depression, receiving electroconvulsive therapy does not worsen the trajectory of functional outcomes, according to a study from the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

For informal caregivers of those hospitalized for mental illness, affiliated stigma was a full mediator between their role as caregiver and their involvement with patients, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

Initiating heavy drinking by 11th grade was associated with higher average weekly alcohol consumption later in life, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

As we are in early 2023, we plan to use this column to provide a high-level update on new developments in tax and asset protection planning, and hope these updates prompt some physicians to look into these areas early in the year.

For individuals prescribed antipsychotic medication, nonadherence, along with switching and stopping medication, was associated with increases in acute care utilization, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

Alto Neuroscience Inc. announced that Alpha Wave Ventures has made a $25 million equity investment to its Series B funding, bringing the total to roughly $60 million as Alto seeks to expand its roster of mental-health related therapeutics.

Smoking cessation was associated with lower risk for dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia, compared with sustained or even reduced smoking intensity, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

A California-based digital mental health provider announced the expansion of its comprehensive care services for organizations beyond the United States, beginning with the United Kingdom.

In children with familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, evidence of motor impairment skills may indicate neurodevelopmental vulnerability for psychosis.