...than it is when they do not, according to a study published online in Schizophrenia Research.
The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet (or ‘DASH') and the Mediterranean diet have been ranked as joint ‘Best Overall' diet by US News and World Report.
...are more likely than those who don’t to have babies with heart deformities and other birth defects, a recent study suggests.
....researchers found in a study published online in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
Researchers examined data on 421 people who participated in nine previously completed short-term experiments testing the benefits of music therapy on its own or added to traditional interventions for depression.
Overall, the analysis found patients felt less depressed when music was added to their treatment regimen, according to the analysis in the Cochrane Library. Music therapy also appeared to help ease anxiety and improve functioning in depressed individuals, and it appeared just as safe as traditional treatments.
“We can now be more confident that music therapy in fact improves patients’ symptoms and functioning, and that this finding holds across a variety of settings, countries, types of patients, and types of music therapy,” said senior study author Christian Gold of Uni Research Health in Bergen, Norway.
Heart rate variability can indicate whether a person has bipolar disorder or major depression, a new study reports.
, according to a study published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
The findings are based on results from a prospective 20-year cohort study that followed 1229 participants from western North Carolina from childhood through their early 30s. The study aimed to identify risk profiles linked with patterns of problematic cannabis use in early adulthood.
“Given that more states may be moving towards legalization of cannabis for medicinal and recreational purposes, this study raises attention about what we anticipate will be the fastest growing demographic of users—adults,” said lead author Sherika Hill, PhD, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC. “A lot of current interventions and policies in the United States are aimed at early adolescent users.
Suicide is rising in younger age groups, as is self-harm or non-suicidal self injury (NSSI) which can result in unintended fatality.
The factors affecting young men and women are different, and also overlap. Understanding the risk factors combined with careful assessment and clinical decision-making is the standard of care at this time, though in the future we may have neuroscience-based techniques to provide more objective and reliable assessment. In the meantime, researchers continue to identify relevant risk factors, which clinicians and patients include in treatment planning, especially when there is concern about suicide and self-injury.
In order to investigate the role of hormonal contraception on suicide-related factors, Skovlund and colleagues (2017) analyzed population data to look for patterns in contraception use and suicide risk factors. They note that hormonal treatments are used by 100 million women around the world for purposes ranging from contraception, to relief of menstrual symptoms such as pain and bleeding, and premenstrual syndrome.
Hormonal contraception has been associated in previous studies with depression and negative effects on mood, and has also been show to increase the risk of suicide and suicide attempts in multiple studies (Skovlund et al., 2016; Schaffir et al., 2016; Bertolote et al., 2003).
Prior research with large cohorts have been mixed, with some studies showing no elevated risk related to suicide, and others showing a significant increase in risk. In addition, hormonal contraception has been associated with risk for some diseases, including some forms of cancer and problems with blood clotting too easily.
...according to a study published in the International Journal of Public Health.