Practice Management News

In this video, Manpreet Kaur Singh, MD, MS, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, spoke with Healio about her presentation on diagnosing and treating bipolar disorder at the 2022 NEI Congress.

Problematic alcohol use among physicians appears to be on the rise, but self-reported studies preclude the true prevalence in the profession, according to researchers.

Through the end of September, the S&P 500 had declined three consecutive quarters and lost nearly 24% of its value.

A multidiagnostic prediction model developed using deep learning was highly predictive of mental disorder diagnosis, according to new data published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Despite a constant number of active buprenorphine prescriptions, the number of new prescriptions during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic was significantly below expected levels, according to a press release from Rand Corp.

Imbrium Therapeutics LP, a subsidiary of Purdue Pharma LP, announced positive preliminary results from a phase 2 study of an investigational oral treatment for patients with insomnia during recovery from an alcohol use disorder.

Patients with dementia who were enrolled in a practice with an interprofessional primary care team were more likely to visit the ED than those with a physician-only team, a recent study found.

People with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia were more likely to exhibit apathy and functional decline, even in the mildest stage of dementia, compared with patients with Alzheimer’s disease, researchers recently reported.

Among health care workers in England, prevalence estimates of PTSD and common mental disorders were markedly lower when assessed using diagnostic interviews compared with screening tools, per a study published in Lancet Psychiatry.

There is a close relationship between psychiatric disorders, psychotropic prescription and treatment compliance, and the risk for complicated appendicitis, researchers reported in BMC Psychiatry.