Mental Health
Commentary
The case for ‘pleasure hygiene’: Sexual health in patients with chronic illness
Encourage flexibility and recognize that sex encompasses a wide and varied menu of experiences that change over a lifetime.
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Social media use may promote depression in pregnancy
Health care providers should discuss social media use in addition to other risk factors for depression in pregnant women.
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Stress, insomnia tied to increased AFib risk for older women
The results support the hypothesis that psychosocial predictors account for additional risk for AF “above and beyond” traditional AF risk factors...
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Service dogs help veterans with PTSD lead better lives
“These dogs pick up on PTSD symptoms and come over and press themselves against you, push their faces into yours, and give you those big puppy dog...
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Probing the link between GERD and anxiety and depression
An analysis suggested that a genetic risk for GERD increased the risk of developing depression or anxiety and vice versa.
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Navigating chronic cough in primary care
“The most common associated comorbidities were heart failure and hypertension, but also conditions related to chronic pain, mood, and anxiety.”
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Nurses maintain more stigma toward pregnant women with OUD
Clinical experience and training may affect differences in attitudes toward women who use opioids during pregnancy.
Commentary
Can a decrease in dopamine lead to binge eating?
Often, the strong urge to binge subsides rapidly once ADHD is properly treated.
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Psilocybin reduces symptoms, disability in major depression
Significantly more people in the psilocybin group reported at least one treatment-related adverse event (82% vs. 44%), although most were mild to...
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Suicidal behavior tied to increased all-cause mortality in MDD
Study suggests that patients at risk for suicidal behavior can be identified at an early stage to allow for enhanced monitoring and optimized...
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Screen bipolar patients for eating disorders
Lifetime eating disorders were identified in 20% of patients with type 2 bipolar disorder.