Minneapolis St. Paul Mental Health Blog

Mental Health | Individuals with a high genomic risk for depression, especially during stressful life periods, significantly benefit from supportive social connections...

...according to study findings published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.

A University of Michigan Medical School research team examined the importance of social support during stressful times through 2 groups of people: first-year medical residents in the Intern Health Study (IHS), and older adults who had been recently widowed and part of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).

“Our data show wide variability in the level of social support individuals received during these stressful times, and how it changed over time,” said first author Jennifer L. Cleary, MS, a University of Michigan psychology doctoral student studying under senior author Srijan Sen, MD, PhD, University of Michigan Medical School.

Mental Health | Psychotherapy for depression was shown to improve adult patients’ self-esteem, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

Mental Health | In adults with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), social support may protect against symptoms of depression and anxiety, according to study findings published in the Journal of Attention Disorders.

Patients with co-morbid bipolar disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were found to have higher odds of other co-morbid disorders...

...according to a new study published in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.

The risk of major depression in both men and women increases with the number of family members with major depression...

...as well as with exposure to major depression during formative years (1-18). Researchers published their findings online ahead of print in JAMA Psychiatry.

Mental Health Matters | Cannabis not recommended for treatment of ADHD

Cannabis is not a recommended treatment option for patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) due to a lack of evidence, according to a scoping review.

Exercise & Mental Health | Increased levels of exercise in the evening were found to improve depressive symptoms in young adults with bipolar spectrum disorders (BSD), according to a study published in Depression & Anxiety.

Young women and girls with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) taking oral combined hormonal contraception (HC) have a 6 times higher risk of depression...

...than those without ADHD taking oral combined HC, according to a recent cohort study.

Mental Health | A pediatric attention-deficient/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis was associated with negative impacts on some quality of life (QOL) measures such as risk of self-harm, self-efficacy, and sense of school membership, a study published in JAMA Network Openfound.

Mental Health | Social Isolation linked with higher risk of incident Dementia in US older adults

Social isolation appears common in community-dwelling older adults in the United States and is associated with an increased risk of developing dementia over 9 years, according to study results published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.