Mental Health
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Navigating chronic cough in primary care
“The most common associated comorbidities were heart failure and hypertension, but also conditions related to chronic pain, mood, and anxiety.”
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Pandemic tied to significant drop in residents’ PTSD rates
Residents training during the pandemic, compared with prepandemic, also reported higher workload satisfaction.
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Can a decrease in dopamine lead to binge eating?
Often, the strong urge to binge subsides rapidly once ADHD is properly treated.
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Psilocybin reduces symptoms, disability in major depression
Significantly more people in the psilocybin group reported at least one treatment-related adverse event (82% vs. 44%), although most were mild to...
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Suicidal behavior tied to increased all-cause mortality in MDD
Study suggests that patients at risk for suicidal behavior can be identified at an early stage to allow for enhanced monitoring and optimized...
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Risky drinking common in cancer survivors
The numbers are “staggering. Most concerning ... is that those on cancer treatment are engaged in a similar level of risky drinking.”
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Mothers in medicine: What can we learn when worlds collide?
The lessons learned in being a good mother can be directly applied in patient care, and vice versa.
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Sleep disturbance may predict increased risk of suicidal thoughts
Adding sleep disturbance questions to assessments could promote early intervention for active and passive suicidal ideation.
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Telehealth visit helps reconnect adolescents lost to follow-up
A small pilot study finds positive results in a hybrid model: The first visit is telehealth with in-person follow-up as needed.
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How much pain is in the mind? This doctor thinks the answer is, most
My feeling is that these psychosocial interventions are easy to try, relatively inexpensive, noninvasive, and, in my experience, often can lead to...
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A better way to measure antidepressant response?
Symptom reduction is only one component of depression treatment, said Dr. Mark Zimmerman.