According to Healio (5/26, Hemphill), “borderline personality disorder [BPD] can be effectively treated by using the good psychiatric management approach, Lois W. Choi-Kain, MD, said” at the American Psychiatric Association 2022 Annual Meeting. BPD’s signs “are detectable early, and clinicians and families can help adolescents focus on interpersonal hypersensitivity as a vulnerability to manage.”

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— “VIDEO: Manage hypersensitivity in adolescents with borderline personality disorder “Nancy Hemphill, Healio, May 26, 2022

STAT (5/26, Cohrs) reports, “A bipartisan group of senators working on mental health policy have proposed axing a requirement that would have restricted seniors’ access to services via telehealth, they announced Thursday.” Previously, “seniors had to have visited the same” clinician “in-person within the previous six months” before accessing telehealth. While “that requirement hasn’t technically gone into effect yet because emergency regulations are still in place due to the pandemic,” once “implemented, it could dramatically limit seniors’ options for mental health services.”

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— “Key Senate panel wants to axe in-person requirement for virtual mental health services “Rachel Cohrs, STAT, May 26, 2022

HealthDay (5/26, Munez) reports, “Teens who have access to guns are at a higher risk for suicide or suicide attempts,” researchers concluded in a study that “analyzed data from more than 15,000 patients aged 14 to 18 years seen at a U.S. children’s hospital emergency department between June 2013 and March 2020.” The study also revealed that “more than 40% of those depressed teens have access to a gun.” The findings were published online May 14 in the journal Academic Pediatrics.

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— “Guns in the Home Raise Suicide Risks for Teens “Cara Murez, HealthDay, May 26, 2022

MedPage Today (5/25, George) reports, “Midlife scores on the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 – an assessment of physical activity, diet, obesity, smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar – were tied to dementia risk later in life, even in people at high genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease,” investigators concluded in findings published online in the journal Neurology. The study revealed that “across genetic risk profiles, higher midlife scores on Life’s Simple 7…were largely associated with reduced incident dementia.”

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Healio (5/25, Ellis) reports, “Among children diagnosed with” attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), “low doses of” AD/HD “medications did not affect thyroid or growth hormone levels,” researchers concluded in a study that included “118 children diagnosed with” AD/HD. The findings were published online March 9 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

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— “Low-dose ADHD drugs do not affect thyroid function, growth hormone at 1 year “Brian Ellis, Healio, May 25, 2022