Mental health

Women with type 1 diabetes and a history of disordered eating spend markedly more time in level 2 hyperglycemia than women without eating disorders, show the results of a small continuous glucose monitoring study.

A telephone-delivered, collaborative goal-setting intervention can significantly reduce depressive symptoms relative to usual care in people with uncontrolled diabetes and clinically significant depression, research shows.

Older prostate cancer patients who use androgen deprivation therapy may be at increased risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, findings indicate.

Pharmacotherapy for rheumatoid arthritis does not meaningfully improve mental health outcomes for the majority of patients, researchers report.

Researchers have found an increased risk for self-harm in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

Depressive symptoms are common in adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and could predict future pain and disability, suggests an analysis of the Childhood Arthritis Prospective Study.

Use of a depression treatment program does not improve survival in patients with cancer and comorbid major depression, even though it was highly effective in reducing depressive symptoms, UK researchers report.

Cancer survivors are twice as likely as the general US population to report use of medication for anxiety and depression.

Patients with late-life depression have an increased risk of dementia if their symptoms increase over time, whereas a single episode of depression, even if severe, does not carry a significant risk, study findings indicate.

Research in JAMA Oncology highlights the need for psychological management and support as early during the course of cancer as the initial workup leading to a diagnosis.

The use of citalopram for the treatment of agitation in Alzheimer’s disease may be limited to a small group of people with moderate agitation and low levels of cognitive impairment, study findings suggest.

Patients at high genetic risk of bipolar disorder may be able to avert onset of the condition due to natural adaptive neuroplasticity that allows the brain to compensate for underlying network dysfunction associated with the condition, researchers report.

Combining lamotrigine with quetiapine improves the treatment of depressive symptoms in patients with bipolar disorder, with the benefits maintained for at least a year, show findings from the CEQUEL trial.

Patients with epilepsy have an increased risk of attempting suicide, which precedes their epilepsy diagnosis, say researchers.

A Cochrane review of evidence to date has cast uncertainty over the magnitude of benefit children with attention deficit/hyperactivity gain by taking methylphenidate.

The atypical antipsychotic cariprazine may be effective for the treatment of bipolar I depression, phase II study findings show.

Psychological interventions for adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder are best combined with methylphenidate, show findings from the COMPAS trial.

Multiple sclerosis has a nonspecific effect on psychiatric morbidity, increasing the risk of all psychiatric disorders, shows a large population-based study.

Prodromal psychiatric symptoms may be more common in patients with Huntington’s disease than previously thought and worsen as the condition progresses, longitudinal study findings show.

Stable lithium maintenance therapy does not increase the risk of renal dysfunction in patients with bipolar affective disorder, findings from a population-based study suggest.