Healio (1/9, Weldon) reports, “Infants and toddlers faced socio-emotional development delays during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study.” The findings were published in JAMA Pediatrics.

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— “COVID-19 pandemic delayed socio-emotional development in young children,” Rose Weldon, Healio, January 9, 2024

HCP Live (1/9, Derman) reports, “Home-use transcranial direct current stimulation…combined with a digital psychological intervention or digital placebo is not superior to sham for the treatment of” patients with “a major depressive episode, according to a new study.” The findings were published in JAMA Psychiatry.

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— “Home-Use tDCS is Not an Effective Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder,” Chelsie Derman, HCP Live, January 9, 2024

HealthDay (1/9, Mundell ) reports, “Depression that emerges around the time of pregnancy raises a woman’s risk for suicide sharply and for many years, new Swedish research shows.” Investigators “found that a new mom’s odds for suicide soars seven-fold in the year after a diagnosis of perinatal depression – depression that arises just before, during or after a pregnancy.”

The study indicated that “between five to 18 years after delivery, the risk of suicide in women with perinatal depression was still more than double that of women unaffected by the illness.” The findings were published in JAMA Network Open.

Psychiatric News (1/9) also covers the story.

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— “Pregnancy-Linked Depression Raises Odds for Suicide Years After Delivery,” Ernie Mundell, HealthDay, January 9, 2024

ABC News (1/8, Zhang) reports, “For children under the age of 2, television screen time is associated with sensory differences later in toddlerhood, according to a new study.” Notably, “children who watched any television or DVDs at 12 months of age were twice as likely by 36 months to experience ‘atypical sensory processing’ … compared to others of that age.” According to the research, “after 18 months of age, each extra hour of screen exposure per day was associated with around a 20% increased likelihood of sensory processing differences.” The findings were published in JAMA Pediatrics.

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— “Screen time for kids under 2 linked to sensory differences in toddlerhood: Study,” Dr. Angela Zhang, ABC News, January 8, 2024

Healio (1/8, Weldon) reports, “Residential addiction treatment centers serving adolescents are scarce and expensive in the United States, new study findings suggest, despite increasing overdose rates among young people in recent years.” The findings were published in Health Affairs.

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— “Study: Residential addiction treatment for adolescents limited, costly,” Rose Weldon, Healio, January 8, 2024