Medical Daily (10/5) reports, “Young girls suffering from” attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) may also be “more likely to be diagnosed with” a comorbid anxiety disorder, “depression, oppositional defiant disorder, and conduct disorder than” girls without the disorder. The findings of the 18-study meta-analysis were published in the October issue of Pediatrics.

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— “Girls With ADHD At Risk For Behavioral Problems, Anxiety,” Ed Cara, Medical Daily, October 5, 2016.

In a nearly 1,300 word article, Kaiser Health News (10/4, Gorman) reports some long-term care facilities are using “doll therapy” to help relax residents with dementia. Some research suggests the controversial method “can reduce the need for medications, diminish anxiety and improve communication.”

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— “When Pretend Play Is Real For Alzheimer’s Patients,” Anna Gorman , Kaiser Health News, October 4, 2016.

Healio (10/4, Quaile) reports, “Depression appears to increase the risk for all-cause mortality and” myocardial infarction (MI) “in patients with stable angina,” researchers found after retrospectively analyzing “a cohort of 22,917 patients aged at least 20 years from Ontario, Canada, newly diagnosed with stable angina based on obstructive” coronary artery disease “found on angiogram, to determine predictors of developing depression.”

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— “Depression linked to adverse outcomes in patients with stable angina,” Healio, October 4, 2016.

Kaiser Health News (10/4, Gorman) focuses on “treatment-resistant depression,” which is defined as “depression that doesn’t respond to two different medications when taken one after the other, at the right dose and for the right amount of time.” Currently, almost “16 million adults have major depression, and up to a third do not respond to treatment,” a study published in the October issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry indicates. Some “experts” now “say that as many as half of older adults don’t get better with standard treatment.”

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— “When The Blues Won’t Let You Be,” Anna Gorman , Kaiser Health News, October 4, 2016.

On its “Morning Edition” program and in its “Shots” blog, NPR (10/3, Hamilton) reports that brain-training games will not help people become free of age-related memory problems, researchers concluded after reviewing “more than 130 studies of brain games and other forms of cognitive training.” The findings of their review were published in the October issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest.

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— “Brain Game Claims Fail A Big Scientific Test,” JON HAMILTON, National Public Radio, October 3, 2016.