Schizophrenia News

SAN DIEGO — In a session here, Marlene P. Freeman, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and associate director of the Center for Women’s Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, discussed the risks and benefits of different pharmacologic treatment options for women of reproductive age with mental illnesses.

Findings from a case-crossover study revealed an association between daily outdoor air pollution levels and increased symptoms of psychiatric disorders in children.

Findings from a large genome-wide association study indicated that genetic liability of psychotic experiences may be shared with several psychiatric disorders in addition to schizophrenia, including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Among military veterans, psychosis and bipolar disorder were more strongly linked to CVD events, such as MI and stroke and CVD mortality compared with other psychiatric diagnoses.

Differences in adverse events were more marked than differences in efficacy when comparing 32 different antipsychotics, according to findings from a large network meta-analysis published in The Lancet.

Psychotic-like experiences, circadian disturbances, poorer social function and manic-like experiences were linked to illness progression in a longitudinal cohort study of youth who presented to early intervention services for psychiatric disorders.

Results from a meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry support delay discounting — a type of decision-making tied to impulsivity — as a robust transdiagnostic process across many different psychiatric disorders.

Study findings published in PLOS Biology indicated that air pollution was significantly linked to increased risk for psychiatric disorders in the United States and Denmark.

Continuing sertraline plus olanzapine compared with sertraline plus placebo reduced the risk for relapse over 36 weeks among adults with psychotic depression in remission, study findings published in JAMA showed.

Refugees were at a greater risk for nonaffective psychoses compared with the native population and nonrefugee migrants in Western host countries, according to findings published in JAMA Psychiatry.