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Biology
September 5, 2024

Trace lithium levels in drinking water reduce the risk of dementia: a systematic review

Fraiha-Pegado, de Paula, Alotaibi, Forlenza & Hajek -- International Journal of Bipolar Disorders volume 12, Article number: 32 (2024) -- The sample size varied in the studies from 37,597 to 35,000,000. Lithium levels rang...

Biology
August 22, 2024

No HIV Infections After Twice-a-Year PrEP

Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable HIV-1 capsid inhibitor, has shown 100% efficacy in preventing HIV in women at a high risk for infection, according to an interim analysis of the phase 3 PURPOSE 1 trial. -- The result...

Biology
June 3, 2024

Accelerated iTBS Treats Bipolar Depression in 5 Days

Yvette Sheline, of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, reported that 10 intermittent theta burst stimulations (iTBS) per day for 5 days yielded dramatic improvement in patients with bipolar depressi...

Childhood
January 25, 2023

Two different subtypes of early onset unspecified bipolar disorder (USBD)

The first subtype is classical BP NOS (Not Otherwise Specified) having all the characteristics of full-blown bipolar disorder except for only having brief durations of mania and responding to conventional treatment. The se...

Childhood
December 6, 2022

Adolescent Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol induces long-term neuronal disturbances in dorsal vs. ventral hippocampus

De Felice et al reported in Neuropsychopharmacology (2022) how adolescent THC exposure in a rodent model can induce significant morphological disturbances and glutamatergic signaling abnormalities in the hippocampus. The d...

Childhood
July 21, 2020

Clinical Risk Prediction in Youth at Risk for Bipolar Spectrum Disorder and Relapse

Photo by Andriyko Podilnyk on Unsplash -- Researchers from two 15-year studies of bipolar youth, COBY (The Coarse and Outcome of Bipolar Youth Study) and BIOS (Bipolar Offspring Family Study), have used the longitudinal da...

Public Policy
March 29, 2024

Quotes from Kay Jamison, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

“There’s this notion that mania and depression are uncommon or certainly that mania is uncommon, and that is not true. The bipolar illness spectrum is associated with a lot of very damaging things, most importantly suicide...

Public Policy
July 3, 2023

Even Psychotic Mania Does Not Preclude Remarkable Success

Highlights from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Conference Posters and Presentations, Chicago, June 22-25, 2023 -- Major (Two Star) General Gregg F. Martin described his lifetime hyperthermia (high energy) ...

Public Policy
June 17, 2023

Projected Health Outcomes Associated With 3 US Supreme Court Decisions in 2022 on COVID-19 Workplace Protections, Handgun-Carry Restrictions, and Abortion Rights

Adam Gaffney et al reported in JAMA New. Open (2023) reported “In this decision analytical modeling study, the model projected that the Supreme Court ruling to invalidate COVID-19 workplace protections was associated with?...

Risk Factors
May 29, 2024

Adolescent Cannabis Use is Associated with Regional Decreases in Cortical Volume and Greater Decreases in Males than Females

Mona Darvishi of The Ohio State University reported that adolescent cannabis use is associated with regional decreases in cortical volume in 10 of 42 brain regions. -- In two of these regions, the superior frontal gyrus an...

Risk Factors
January 11, 2024

Smoking Pot While Pregnant is a No-No

Mom, Don’t Think Smoking Pot When Pregnant is Harmless for your Child -- In a new article in Science, Jasmine Hurd reports on a large sample of mothers who smoked pot while pregnant. Their offspring were more anxious, hype...

Risk Factors
August 23, 2023

Cannabis Contributes to 15% of Case of Schizophrenia

A study in Psychological Medicine (May 2, 2023) reported on ” Danish registry data spanning five decades and representing more than 6.9 million people in Denmark to estimate the population-level percentage of schizophrenia...

Treatments
June 4, 2024

Naltrexone Augmented with Prazosin Is Highly Effective for Alcohol Use Disorder

Murray Raskind, of the VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, conducted a translational proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the mu-opioid receptor antagonist, naltrexone, au...

Treatments
June 1, 2024

A Disease-Modifying Drug, Lecanemab, is Now Available for Alzheimer's

C. H. van Dyck from Yale talked about the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s dementia. -- New brain imaging data have revealed that Lecanemab cannot only highly significantly delay memory decline but also improve PET m...

Treatments
May 31, 2024

Intramuscular versus Intravenous Ketamine for the Management of Treatment-Resistant Depression and Suicidal Ideation

Cristina Albott of the University of Minnesota Medical School reported relatively similar efficacy of intramuscular versus intravenous ketamine for the management of treatment-resistant depression and suicidal ideation in ...

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