Psychiatry News

• Marthe Gautier, 'Forgotten' Discoverer of Trisomy 21, Dies Gautier's scientific contributions, like those of many other women, were not initially given their due acknowledgement.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• The Psychopathic Brain: New Insight A neuroimaging study shows that the striatum is nearly 10% larger in adults with psychopathic traits compared to those with no psychopathic traits.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Dopamine D1 Agonists May Aid Patients With Late-Stage Parkinson's The study covered in this summary was published on MedRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
  First Look, May 18, 2022
• Youth Mental Health Hospitalization Rates Rose in 2020 Girls accounted for a greater proportion of hospitalizations than boys, and girls were more than twice as likely to be prescribed mood and anxiety medication than boys.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Two More Bills Targeting COVID Rules Head to AZ Gov. Ducey's Desk Tuesday's state Senate votes were the latest moves by GOP lawmakers to limit what they have called government overreach.
  Associated Press, May 18, 2022
• US Tops 1M COVID Deaths: 'History Should Judge Us Harshly' Case numbers are rising again, and the United States reaches a once unimaginable and grim milestone.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Our Brains Learn From Mistakes and Can Track Performance Our ability to try new things and learn from successes and failures depends a lot on cells in the brain's frontal lobe behind the forehead, report researchers who learned more from new lab tests.
  WebMD Health News, May 16, 2022
• Writing Out Common Medical Terms Boosts Patient Knowledge: Study Research published in JAMA Network Open shows that patients are more likely to understand their health conditions when healthcare providers avoid abbreviations and acronyms in written communications.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Alert RaDonda Vaught Sentenced to Probation for Patient Death The 38-year-old nurse received 3 years of supervised probation and was permanently stripped of her nursing license. She also apologized for the first time to the family of Charlene Murphey.
  News Alerts, May 13, 2022
• Idaho Announces $119 Million Opioid Crisis Settlement Republican Gov. Brad Little and Republican Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said it's the second-largest consumer settlement in state history.
  Associated Press, May 13, 2022
• Are Physician White Coats Becoming Obsolete? The white coat has been the traditional physician garb. But since the pandemic, more have been wearing scrubs or more casual clothing. What's best for physicians to wear?
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• US Drug Overdose Deaths Top 100,000 for the First Time The CDC said there were an estimated 107,622 drug overdose deaths in 2021, a 15% increase over the previous record of 93,655 set in 2020.
  WebMD Health News, May 13, 2022
• New Data Support Electroconvulsive Therapy for Depression A retrospective cohort study provides evidence that the treatment can prevent suicide among patients with severe depression. Psychiatrists comment that ECT is used too infrequently.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Consider Cancer as a Trigger for Deep Vein Thrombosis Examination of a woman with paranoid schizophrenia and deep vein thrombosis revealed chondrosarcoma of the tibia.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Clozapine and Cancer Risk: New Data Long-term treatment with clozapine is associated with a small, but significant, risk of hematological malignancies in individuals with schizophrenia, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Stimulants Plus Buprenorphine for OUD a Double-Edge Sword? Stimulants may lead to better engagement in buprenorphine treatment at the cost of a modest increase in drug overdose risk in patients with opioid addiction.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• AGS 2022 Red Flag Raised for Post-Op Muscle Relaxants in Older Adults Muscle relaxants are considered dangerous for the elderly and appropriate only for short-term use, but a study found that 13% of older patients prescribed the drugs for surgical pain were taking them 3 months later.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• AGS 2022 Cannabis-Related ED Visits Up 18-fold for Older Californians Researchers say more work needs to be done to explain why the rate of marijuana-related emergencies skyrocketed among older adults from 2005 to 2019.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Missed Appointments: Treating Executive Dysfunction Psychiatrist Dinah Miller, MD, details the difficulties in treating patients for whom routine aspects of life can be very difficult.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Decreased CBF in Patients With COVID-19 Who Self-Isolated Various regions of the brain exhibited decreased blood circulation in the long-term.
  First Look, May 12, 2022