MedPage Today (9/23, Lopalito) reported, “While patients with major depressive disorder [MDD] and childhood trauma had more severe depressive symptoms, they benefited from treatment as much as those without childhood trauma,” researchers concluded in a 29-study systematic review and meta-analysis that encompassed “6,830 participants.” The findings were published online Sept. 22 in The Lancet Psychiatry. Healio (9/23, Herpen) also covered the story.

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HCPlive (9/23, Grossi) reported researchers have provided “evidence that nightmares occur frequently among adolescent patients with” major depressive disorder (MDD). What’s more, the study revealed a “statistically significant association…between suicide risk and nightmare frequency.” The findings of the 499-patient study were published online Sept. 22 in the journal Nature and Science of Sleep.

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— “Higher Risk of Suicide Observed in Adolescents Suffering from Nightmare Distress “Giuliana Grossi, HCPlive, September 23, 2022

HealthDay (9/22, Reinberg) reports a study published in eClinical Medicine found “people aged 35 to 64 who had bad dreams weekly were four times more likely to have cognitive decline over the following 10 years, and older people were twice as likely to develop dementia.” Researchers evaluated data “on more than 600 adult men and women between the ages of 35 and 64” as well as “2,600 adults aged 79 and older who didn’t have dementia” and “also found that the risk for dementia tied to nightmares was stronger among men than women.”

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— “Lots of Nightmares in Middle Age Might Be Warning Sign of Dementia “Steven Reinberg, HealthDay, September 22, 2022

According to Psychiatric News (9/22), “Participating in at least two sessions of a telephone-delivered intervention may help reduce total alcohol consumption, alcohol problem severity, and risky drinking patterns among patients with alcohol use problems,” a study published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry shows. The findings of the 344-participant study, researchers wrote, “demonstrate the potential benefits of this highly scalable telehealth model of alcohol treatment, with potential to reduce the treatment gap for problem alcohol use.”

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— “Telephone Intervention May Reduce Risky Alcohol Consumption, Psychiatric News, September 22, 2022

Healio (9/22, Herpen) reports a “relapse of schizophrenia symptoms was associated with higher rates of adverse socioeconomic outcomes” among military veterans, researchers concluded in a retrospective cohort study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Investigators “also found the relapse cohort had a higher frequency of unemployment (75.4% vs. 71.4%), divorce (35.6% vs. 33.7%), homelessness (38.9% vs. 23.7%), incarceration (0.6% vs. 0.4%), and premature death (23.3% vs. 16.9%) compared with non-relapse counterparts.”

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— “Relapse of schizophrenia in US veterans linked to higher rate of adverse social outcomes “Robert Herpen, Healio, September 22, 2022