With new mothers in social isolation due to COVID-19, rates of postpartum depression are expected to increase. (The New York Times)
About 25% of police officers are estimated to drink at “hazardous” levels, while one in seven may check the boxes for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. (Occupational & Environmental Medicine)
A meta-analysis found that an acute administration of ketamine was tied to positive and negative symptoms of psychosis in healthy individuals and those with schizophrenia. And when a bolus was given with the infusion, people saw even more positive symptoms of psychosis. (JAMA Network Open)
Adolescents and children — but not adults — who discontinued attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder medication saw a small but significant drop in quality of life. (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry)
Alcohol use disorder was a strong predictor of both 6-year and 16-year persistence or recurrence of depression. (Canadian Journal of Psychiatry)
More than 150,000: that’s the number of Americans who died due to alcohol, drug abuse, or suicide in 2018, according to new data from Trust for America’s Health. And the 2020 estimate is expected to take a sharp increase thanks to the pandemic.
Psychiatric Times highlighted some of the psychiatrists who have died from COVID-19.
Researchers at Washington University received $13.7 million in funding to study adolescent brain development, as part of the largest long-term brain development study in the U.S.
Source: MedicalNewsToday.com
