Minneapolis St. Paul Mental Health Blog

Mental Health | Anxiety, Depression, Neural Interruption More Likely in Adolescents Subjected to Corporal Punishment

Mental Health Update | As a health care professional, I have watched the progress of the COVID-19 pandemic with alternating measures of horror, dread, fascination, frustration, and fear.

The nurse in me wants to jump onto the front lines, don scrubs, and volunteer at the nearest emergency room. As I watch the understandable human response to this unprecedented circumstance, I know my skills as a psychiatric clinician will be needed soon enough to help with the emotional impact of this pandemic.

Mental Health Matters | Episodes of depression and anxiety experienced in early through middle adulthood are associated with a decrease in memory function by age 50.....

Mental Health | Unlike other types of anxiety disorders, social anxiety disorder appears to have a causal influence on the risk for alcohol use disorder,….

Mental Health | Greater abdominal fat may signal increased anxiety risk in middle-aged women,

according to a study published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society.

Nearly one-quarter of people with problematic marijuana use in early adulthood had anxiety disorders in childhood and late adolescence....

, 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.

Nearly one-quarter of people with problematic marijuana use in early adulthood had anxiety disorders in childhood and late adolescence,

...according to a study published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Working out to reduce Anxiety | People who do resistance exercises like weight lifting may experience less anxiety than people who don’t workout, a research review suggests.

Researchers analyzed data from 16 previously published studies with a total of 922 participants who were randomly assigned to do resistance training or be inactive.

Anxiety and patients who quit too soon | The researchers found that the odds of relapse increased with discontinuation compared with continuing antidepressant treatment.

The researchers used random effects models to estimate odds ratios (OR) for relapse, calculate hazard ratios for time to relapse, and determine the relapse prevalence per group. In addition, they explored the effects of various categorical and continuous variables in subgroup analyses.