Minneapolis St. Paul Mental Health Blog

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MaryAPRN.com/ Advanced Practice Psych LLC

Suicide and Marijuana use | Follow the data, Op-ed

Op-Ed: Are Marijuana Use and Suicide Linked?


— A review of the data show there's cause for alarm

Correlation does not mean causation, but that is why we do research -- to follow correlations in an effort to determine causation. Data linking marijuana use to people with suicidal ideation, attempts, and completed suicides are steadily increasing.

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Metabolism differs in patients with certain Psychiatric Disorders

Mental Health | People with major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia appear to metabolize tryptophan in the brain differently than people without mental health disorders.....

...according to a study published in Molecular Psychiatry.

“Tryptophan can be metabolized to either a route where serotonin is produced, or to the kynurenine pathway,” said co-senior study author Brisa Fernandes, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

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Mental Health | Suicide rates significantly higher among people w-ADHD

ADHD and Suicide, attention is needed for both men and women

 
Mental Health | In sharing this podcast transcript, Esme Fuller-Thomson, PhD, of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, discusses her recent research which showed significantly higher rates of suicide attempt and ideation among people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), particularly women, and her other work illustrating the mental health problems that co-occur with ADHD.
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Mental Health | using Anxiety amid COVID-19 as a tool for Growth

Covid-19 has impacted every aspect of our lives, how we respond and grow to this pandemic is critical for our future.

Like me, you are probably noticing more and more in recent weeks that emotions, like viruses, seem to be spreading from person to person. Fear and anxiety have risen in the general population in the face of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, and, perhaps more notably, in the patients I have been seeing in my office.

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