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Patients With History Of TBI May Experience Clinical Onset Of Alzheimer’s Several Years Earlier Than Those Without TBI, Scan Study Suggests
Healio (12/2, Miller) reports, “Patients with a history of traumatic brain injury [TBI] experienced the clinical onset of Alzheimer’s disease several years earlier than those without TBI,” researchers concluded after analyzing “241 amyloid positron emission tomography scans from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative public database to look for differences in standardized uptake value ratio, cortical morphometry and neuropsychological assessments.” The study revealed that “a history of TBI was associated with ‘higher amyloid deposition and cognitive deficit’ in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.” The findings were presented at the virtual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference Neuroscience Next.
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— “TBI ‘significantly fast-forwards’ clinical onset of Alzheimer’s disease “Janel Miller, Healio, December 2, 2020
Op-Ed Praises Pilot Program Ending City’s De Facto Police Response To Mental Health Emergencies
In an op-ed for USA Today (12/2, Fialk, Contributor), Amanda Fialk, “a licensed clinical social worker and partner and chief of clinical services at The Dorm, a young adult mental health treatment community,” writes, “Last month, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced the pilot of a new program that would end the city’s de facto police response to mental health emergencies.” Under the program, the New York City “health department and hospitals will help train new mental health teams and provide case conferencing,” and “mental health professionals will be the responders for a person in crisis.” She observes, “According to the American Psychiatric Association, most people with mental illness are ‘not violent, not criminal and not dangerous.’” Fialk believes the initiative “will allow New Yorkers, and perhaps the entire country, to reimagine how to address the mental and physical safety of those who are frequently put in danger by insufficiently trained officers.”
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— “Cops shouldn’t be first at scene in mental health crises. NYC pilot program needed nationwide “Amanda Fialk, USA Today, December 2, 2020
Research Highlights Need To Educate Women With SMI About Risks Of HIV/AIDS And HPV
Psychiatric News (12/1) reports research “highlights the need to educate women with serious mental illness (SMI) about the risks of” HIV/AIDS and HPV. After asking “89 women with SMI receiving outpatient care at a public mental health center in Augusta, Ga., to complete HIV and HPV questionnaires,” researchers then compared “the responses of women with SMI…with those of women in the general population (357 responded to an HIV questionnaire; 413 to an HPV questionnaire).” The study revealed that “women with SMI on average answered 64% of the answers correct on the HIV Knowledge Questionnaire.” What’s more, the women with SMI “knew significantly less about HPV compared with HIV, answering 55% of HPV general knowledge, 51% of HPV vaccination, and 40% of HPV testing questions correctly.” The findings were published online Aug. 1 as a research letter in Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.
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— “Report Highlights Need to Educate Women With SMI About Risks of HIV, Other STDs, Psychiatric News, December 1, 2020
Unmet Job Expectations Due To Declines In Labor Market May Be Tied To Risk For Death From Suicide In Men, Study Suggests
Healio (12/1, Gramigna) reports, “Men whose job expectations were unmet due to labor market declines were at increased risk for death from suicide or drug poisoning vs. men with different job expectations,” researchers concluded after analyzing “data of 11,680 men who were interviewed as part of the High School and Beyond study.” The findings were published online Dec. 1 in JAMA Network Open.
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— “Unmet job expectations due to labor market changes linked to suicide risk among men “Joe Gramigna, Healio, December 1, 2020
Problems Paying Bills, Managing Personal Finances May Be Evident Years Before A Dementia Diagnosis, Study Indicates
The Washington Post (11/27, Chiu) reports “research…suggests that adverse financial events associated with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias…can start happening years before people are clinically diagnosed.”
MedPage Today (11/30, George) reports that investigators “linked consumer credit report outcomes from 1999 to 2018 to claims data for 81,364 Medicare beneficiaries living in single-person households.” The study revealed that “as early as six years before they were diagnosed with dementia, people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias were more likely to miss credit account payments than their peers without dementia.” In addition, they “were more likely to develop subprime credit scores 2.5 years before their dementia diagnosis,” researchers concluded. The findings were published online in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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