Healio (7/9, Demko) reports that a 24-study “integrative review published” online May 20 in the journal Birth “revealed that anger coexists with postpartum mood disturbances in women.” The review also demonstrated that “anger occurs when women’s expectations about motherhood are different from reality, and when they feel trapped in situations such as poverty and intimate partner violence.”

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— “Anger coexists with postnatal depression,”Savannah Demko, Healio, July 9, 2018.

The ABC News (7/9, Powell) website reports research published online July 9 in Pediatrics “finds that traumatic events in childhood increase the risk of mental health and behavioral problems not just for that person but also for their children.” For the study, researchers “used a national sample of families from previous research – parents who had participated in a 2014 Child Development Supplement and 2,529 of their children who had complete data in the 2014 Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study.” The study revealed an association “between children with a high rate of behavioral problems and parents who had experienced a greater number of adverse childhood events.”

HealthDay (7/9, Norton) reports children of parents who had experienced “abuse or other adversities” as children were themselves “twice as likely to have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder” and “four times as likely to have been diagnosed with any mental health disorder.” Medical Daily (7/9) also covers the study.

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— “Trauma suffered in childhood echoes across generations, study finds,”Denise Powell, The ABC News, July 9, 2018.

The New York Times (3/16, Span, Subscription Publication) reports that “for years, geriatricians and researchers have sounded the alarm about the use of benzodiazepines among older adults,” including Valium (diazepam), Klonopin (clonazepam), Xanax (alprazolam) and Ativan (lorazepam), but “the cautions have had scant effect” while the opioid epidemic has compounded the problem. According to Michael Schoenbaum, an epidemiologist at the National Institutes for Health, “Way too many older Americans are getting benzos. And of those, many — more than half — are getting them for prolonged periods. That’s just bad practice. They have serious consequences.” The Times notes that in 2016 “the Food and Drug Administration issued a black-box warning about co-prescribing benzodiazepines and opioids, including those in cough products.”

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— “A Quiet Drug Problem Among the Elderly,” Paula Span, New York Times, March 16, 2018.

Medscape (3/14, Brauser) reports, “Sustaining a traumatic brain injury (TBI) may be a risk factor for violent behavior and subsequent incarceration,” researchers concluded in “a large review of birth cohort, data linkage, and population studies.” The findings were published online Feb. 26 in The Lancet Psychiatry.

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— Medscape (requires login and subscription)

MedPage Today (3/14, Walsh) reports, “Patients with axial spondyloarthritis have high rates of depression, with almost one-third experiencing moderate-to-severe symptoms,” researchers found among “a cohort of 1,736 patients.” The findings were published online March 9 in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

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— “Depression Common with Spine Disease,” Nancy Walsh, MedPage Today, March 14, 2018.