Healio (6/22, Gramigna) reports, “Several pharmacologic treatments, including vitamin E, may reduce symptoms of tardive dyskinesia,” investigators concluded. Researchers also found that “VMAT2 inhibitors exhibited significant benefit,” as did “vitamin B6.” The findings of the multi-study meta-analysis and systematic review published online May 26 in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

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— “Vitamins E, B6, VMAT2 inhibitors may reduce tardive dyskinesia symptoms, “Joe Gramigna, Healio , June 22, 2020

HealthDay (6/19, Preidt) reported, “The coronavirus pandemic is adding to the mood issues that many pregnant women and new moms experience, according to a new study.” Among the pregnant women and women who’d given birth in the last year, the research indicates that “before the pandemic, 29% had moderate to high anxiety and 15% reported symptoms of depression,” but “during the pandemic, those rates increased to 72% and 41%, respectively.” Moreover, “sixty-four percent of women said they were getting less physical activity now, while 15% were doing more and 21% had no change in activity,” according to the findings published in the journal Frontiers in Global Women’s Health.

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— “Pandemic Affecting Mental Health of Pregnant Women, New Moms, “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, June 19, 2020

USA Today (6/21, O’Donnell) reports that “amid projections of soaring suicide, drug and alcohol deaths from the pandemic-spawned social and economic collapse,” many mental health and substance abuse treatment centers and their patients are struggling. Such facilities have “been largely left out of the murky formula for federal COVID-19 health care funding, which has focused on the immediate financial impact on hospitals caring for patients with the virus and lost revenue from elective procedures.”

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— “As suicide, addiction death projections soar amid COVID-19, treatment centers struggle to stay alive too, “Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY, June 21, 2020

Healio (6/18, Gramigna) reports, “Women with severe or recurrent depression were more likely to relapse during pregnancy after antidepressant discontinuation,” investigators concluded in a “systematic review and meta-analysis,” the findings of which were published online in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

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— “Antidepressant discontinuation linked to relapse among pregnant women with depression, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, June 18, 2020

Healio (6/17, Gramigna) reports researchers found that male adolescents with conduct disorders who were arrested with a gun, and who specifically had “callous-unemotional traits,” had an increased risk of carrying and using a gun in a subsequent crime during the next 4 years. These traits were defined as having limited guilt, reduced empathic concern, reduced displays of appropriate emotion, and a lack of concern over performance in important activities. These findings were discovered after evaluating 1,215 male, juvenile offenders from 3 regions of the U.S. at 6 month intervals for three years, and again at 4 years. The study was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Psychiatric News (6/17) also covers the study.

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— “Specific traits among adolescents increase risk for gun use, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, June 17, 2020