Healio (1/29) reported, “Risk drinking levels increased significantly from 2001 and 2002 to 2012 and 2013,” researchers concluded after using “logistic regression to analyze data of 26,655 current drinkers who were included in the 2001 to 2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) and of 25,659 included in the 2012 to 2013 NESARCIII.” The findings were published online Jan. 21 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.

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— “WHO risk drinking levels provide metric for nonabstinent reduction, study finds “Joe Gramigna, Healio, January 29, 2021

Psychiatric News (1/29) reported, “Patients who have depression and frequently experience bouts of anger may have an increased risk of developing bipolar disorder,” investigators concluded in a study that also revealed “a link between aggression reactivity – aggressive behavior in response to feeling threatened, provoked, or frustrated – and conversion to bipolar disorder.” Researchers arrived at these conclusions after analyzing “data from 1,585 people with depression who participated in the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety…a longitudinal study of adults aged 18 to 65 years.” The findings were published online Jan. 27 in the journal Depression & Anxiety.

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— “Anger, Aggression Reactivity in Depression May Signal Risk for Converting to Bipolar Disorder, Psychiatric News, January 29, 2021

Psychiatric News (1/28) reports, “Students in China reported high rates of psychological distress during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, but wearing a face mask frequently and exercising had some protective benefits,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data from nearly 1.2 million school-aged children and adolescents living in the Guangdong province in China.” Next, the students “completed online questionnaires from March 8 to 30, 2020, which assessed mental health status using the Chinese version of the 12-item General Heath Questionnaire.” The findings were published online Jan. 26 in JAMA Network Open.

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— “High Psychological Distress Found Among Chinese Students During Early Weeks of Pandemic, Psychiatric News, January 28, 2021

Healio (1/28, Gramigna) reports, “Frequently used neuroimaging measures did not show a discrete brain signature associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors among youths,” researchers concluded after analyzing “data of a U.S. population-based sample of 7,994 unrelated children aged nine to 10 years who were included in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive study.” Investigators also “implemented quality control procedures and examined structural MRI data of 6,238 participants, resting state functional MRI data of 4,134 participants and task-based functional MRI data of between 4,075 and 4,608 participants.” The findings were published online Jan. 21 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.

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— “Common neuroimaging measures do not detect youths’ risk for suicidal thoughts, behaviors “Joe Gramigna, Healio, January 28, 2021

Healio (1/27, Laday) reports, “Physical inactivity confers a ‘greater than threefold increased risk’ for developing depression within the next two years among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus [SLE],” investigators concluded after analyzing data from 225 people with SLE “without baseline depression and who completed an in-person baseline assessment and at least one follow-up.” The findings were published online in the journal Arthritis Care & Research.

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— “Physical inactivity triples risk for depression in patients with lupus “Jason Laday, Healio, January 27, 2021