Psychotherapy

Psychedelics as an adjunctive therapy to psychiatric counseling may be feasible for anxiety and mood disorders, but proper blinding in future clinical trials presents an ongoing obstacle to wider acceptance, according to a speaker.

Treatment with psilocybin was linked to improvements in motor and non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, as well as associated psychiatric conditions, with sustained results up to 1 month, results of a pilot study show.

Adults in South Korea with depression or anxiety who were living alone were significantly more likely to die by suicide compared with adults without depression or anxiety who lived with others, according to a study.

Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy significantly improved a range of psychiatric symptoms among people with cancer, according to research published in Nature Mental Health.

Prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation induced small- to medium-sized clinical effects in cognitive and clinical metrics in youths with ADHD with no serious adverse effects, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Adults mostly could not tell if responses to scenarios about couples therapy were written by ChatGPT or a therapist, although they observed different language patterns, according to a study published in PLOS Mental Health.

Opinions varied among practitioners regarding psychological support when treating with psychedelics, although an emotive approach was slightly preferred, according to results of a survey published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

In a study of approximately 386,000 women published in JAMA Network Open, almost half of those who took antidepressants before conception stopped treatment during pregnancy without substituting psychotherapy.

Introduction of cognitive processing therapy to treatment as usual was superior to standard treatment alone to address PTSD at 17 weeks, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Nearly 50% of women who utilized antidepressant prescriptions before conception discontinued use after pregnancy without substitution of psychotherapy treatment, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.