Mental Health during Covid 19 and its restrictions matters, if you need help, please ask.

Adults most at risk of experiencing moderate or severe depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic include those experiencing abuse or low social support, those with low socioeconomic position, and those with preexisting mental and physical health conditions,...

The effects of Marijuana Dependency, costs and risks of your health

Cannabis Dependency May Affect Outcomes in Asthma Exacerbation Hospitalizations

Mental Health and new studies for Depression relief

Zuranolone, an investigational neuroactive steroid, improved depressive symptoms in a majority of patients within a 14-day treatment course, Sage Therapeutics reported.

Topline results from the ongoing phase 3 open-label SHORELINE Study also demonstrate zuranolone was well-tolerated in patients taking 30 mg, and among patients treated with the 50 mg dose after the study protocol was changed in May to include it, according to a press release from Sage.

Mental Health | studies have shown that both children and adults learn more and remember better when writing by hand.

Now another study confirms the same: choosing handwriting over keyboard use yields the best learning and memory.

Mental Health Matters | Covid 19 studies

Research presented at the 2020 ESCMID Conference on Coronavirus Disease (ECCVID), shows that persistent fatigue occurs in more than half of patients recovered from COVID-19, regardless of the seriousness of their infection.

Mental Health Matters | A psychiatric diagnosis for patients hospitalized with COVID-19 is linked to a significantly increased risk for death, new research shows.

Investigators found that patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19 and who had been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder had a 1.5-fold increased risk for a COVID-related death in comparison with COVID-19 patients who had not received a psychiatric diagnosis.

Mental Health | Consistent participation in extracurricular sports during the elementary school years predicted ......

......fewer attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms at age 12 in girls......

.....—but not in boys, according to a study in Preventive Medicine.

This is an excellent read for those in denial about how serious Covid still is | Stay safe, wear a mask.

I am an emergency medicine physician in an inner-city emergency department, and I would like to start by stating a simple truth: coronavirus is not going away any time soon.

Mental Health | ADHD More Prevalent in Boys, Adolescents With ASD

Mental Health | In hospitalized children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), predictors of co-morbid attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)....

Mental Health | The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requiring an update to the Boxed Warning for all benzodiazepines.....

.....to include additional information related to the risks of abuse, misuse, addiction, physical dependence and withdrawal reactions associated with this drug class.