Behavioral Disorder

Analysis of blood-based biomarkers may be a reliable method to predict behavioral issues in older populations of Asian descent with varied neuropathology, researchers reported in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

SAN FRANCISCO — Collaboration and communication between mental and physical health services is crucial to overcome logistics of providing proper care for homeless individuals in a large city, Carine Nzodom, MD, says in a Healio video.

CHICAGO — A history of two or more head injuries was associated with mild behavioral impairment in older adults, according to a poster presentation at the 2022 American Neurological Association annual meeting.

Timing of and risk for childhood neurodevelopment disorder diagnoses is linked to various socioeconomic factors including insurance enrollment, according to a U.S. population-based cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

The link between mental illness and increased risk for contact with the criminal justice system in adulthood and adolescence extends to early childhood, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

The common frontotemporal dementia gene variations have different behavioral and neuropsychiatric disturbances and different trajectories through the course of the disease, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Researchers identified parental PTSD as a predictor of psychiatric morbidity among the offspring of refugees, according to a study published in Lancet Public Health.