Violence/Trauma News

NEW ORLEANS – Family member involvement or previous diagnoses of depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder is most likely how extremists and conspiracy theorists end up in psychiatric care, Jack S. Rozel, MD, said.

NEW ORLEANS – Psychiatrists should take care of homeless patients as physicians and look at overall health issues, Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH, said at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

NEW ORLEANS – The most common pathway in borderline personality disorder is nonviolence, Jack S. Rozel, MD, said at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

NEW ORLEANS – The American Psychiatric Association DSM steering committee gathered at the APA annual meeting to review proposed changes to the manual, committee chair Paul S. Appelbaum, MD, said.

NEW ORLEANS – A number of new treatments are on the horizon for PTSD, making the future bright for patients with this condition, Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD, said at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

NEW ORLEANS – Healio/Psychiatry peer perspective board member Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH, discussed the mental health of female veterans, or “invisible veterans,” at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

NEW ORLEANS – Psychiatrists who identify a patient at risk for committing violence should work with other subject matter professionals to determine the protective factors that can help reduce that person’s risk, Jack S. Rozel, MD, MSL, said.

NEW ORLEANS - Mixed martial arts sparring was associated with increased white matter hyperintensity volume and a large caudate region, suggesting some protective function, a researcher said at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

NEW ORLEANS – For the first time in 3 years, the American Psychiatric Association will host its annual meeting in person, May 21 to 25 in New Orleans, with social determinants of mental health as the conference theme.

A significant increase in ICU admissions for adolescents aged 12 to 17 years with deliberate self-harm was reported in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study in JAMA Network Open.