Youth With ASD More Likely To Be Restrained When Hospitalized, Research Suggests
Psychiatric News (12/11) reports, “Children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more than twice as likely as those without ASD to be restrained while hospitalized, according to a report.” The findings were published in Pediatrics.

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— “Youth With Autism More Likely to Experience Restraint in Hospital,” APA Psychiatric News Alert, December 11, 2023

CNN (12/8, Musa) reported that “with growing attention on traumatic brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE, in sports, clinicians and researchers from across the country, including” physicians “from the NFL, are offering guidance on how to prevent further harm in athletes.”

Experts in the fields of “athletic brain injury and long-term cognitive disorders gathered at a summit Friday at the Cantu Concussion Center at Emerson Health in Concord, Massachusetts, ‘to gather and share their findings, with a goal of identifying gaps in current research that need to be addressed,’ according to a consensus statement from the group.”

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— “Experts in concussion, NFL leaders gather to identify gaps in knowledge, offer guidelines on preventing brain injuries,” Amanda Muse, CNN, December 8, 2023

Psychiatric News (12/8) reported “skipping breakfast and eating a diet high in foods associated with inflammation (for example, foods fried in oil) may raise the risk of depression, a study” found. Study “participants who ate a pro-inflammatory diet had 1.42 times the odds of having depressive symptoms compared with those who ate an anti-inflammatory diet.” The findings were published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

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— “Skipping Breakfast, Pro-Inflammatory Diet Linked to Depressive Symptoms,” APA Psychiatric News Alert, December 8, 2023

Psychiatric News (12/7) reports, “Magnetic seizure therapy appears to be as effective as electroconvulsive therapy at achieving lasting antidepressant effects in people with major depression and may be less disorienting.” The findings were published in JAMA Psychiatry.

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— “Magnetic Seizure Therapy for Depression Found as Effective as ECT,” APA Psychiatric News Alert, December 7

CNN (12/6) reports “about half of hypertension cases in middle-age and older adults are shared or ‘concordant’ within couples, a new study suggests, meaning if one spouse has high blood pressure, their partner does, too.” Among heterosexual couples in China, England, India and the United States, “the women who were married to men with high blood pressure were more likely to also have hypertension themselves than those whose husbands did not have high blood pressure, according to the study.”

Furthermore, “the men who had wives with hypertension were more likely to have hypertension compared with the men whose wives did not have hypertension.” The findings were published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

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— “If your spouse has high blood pressure, you’re more likely to have it too, study suggests,” Jacqueline Howard, CNN, December 6, 2023