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January 17, 2019     Psychiatry     The latest psychiatry news from News Medical

Alterations in brain networks contribute to cognitive dysfunction in psychiatric disorders   Psychiatric disorders share common alterations of functional connectivity between three core brain networks involved in cognition, according to a meta-analysis published in Biological Psychiatry.

Social media is more detrimental to girls’ mental health than for boys’   Yet another study has revealed that more time spent on social media translates into higher rates of depression especially among young girls. The new study reveals that girls are worst affected by depression due to poor sleep and online bullying compared to boys.         Special intervention could help alleviate flashbacks in people with PTSD   A behavioral intervention procedure including the computer game Tetris could help people with post-traumatic stress disorder to alleviate involuntarily recurring visual memories of traumatic experiences.

Senescent cells in the brain shown to cause obesity-related anxiety   Researchers have shown that obesity increases the level of semi-dormant senescent cells in the brain, which give rise to anxiety-like behaviors.       Therapists should regularly assess depression symptoms and augment treatment for insufficient responders   Adolescents with depression who were treated with interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT-A) had significantly better outcomes when their therapists regularly assessed depression symptoms and augmented treatment for insufficient responders after four weeks of therapy rather than waiting until Week 8, reports a study published in the January 2019 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry       Exposure to cannabis, stress during adolescence may lead to long-term anxiety disorders   A new study conducted on laboratory animals shows that exposure to cannabis and stress during adolescence may lead to long-term anxiety disorders characterized by the presence of pathological fear.       Study shows how specific mutations in SYNE1 gene may increase bipolar disorder risk   A new study by researchers at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT finds that the protein CPG2 is significantly less abundant in the brains of people with bipolar disorder and shows how specific mutations in the SYNE1 gene that encodes the protein undermine its expression and its function in neurons.       Schizophrenia patients have higher levels of antibodies against Epstein-Barr virus, study shows   New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine and Sheppard Pratt Health System shows that people in the study with schizophrenia also have higher levels of antibodies against the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis, so-called mono.       Study: Two-thirds of stroke survivors are in complete mental health   Two-thirds of stroke survivors are in complete mental health despite the impact of their stroke, according to a large, nationally representative Canadian study conducted by researchers at the University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.       King's researchers receive £1.25 million to investigate fatal eating disorder   A multidisciplinary team, led by Dr Marietta Stadler from the School of Life Course Sciences, has been awarded £1.25 million by the National Institute for Health Research to investigate an eating disorder where people with type 1 diabetes deliberately take too little insulin to try and control their weight.       Oxford researchers explore relationship between technology use and adolescent mental health   Researchers at the University of Oxford have performed the most definitive study to date on the relationship between technology use and adolescent mental health, examining data from over 300,000 teenagers and parents in the UK and USA.       B-group vitamins may be beneficial for people with first episode psychosis   B-group vitamins may be beneficial for maintaining concentration skills among people experiencing a first episode of psychosis, a study by researchers from Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, has found.       Improvements in pharmacological study to fight cognitive impairment in schizophrenia   A study by the UPV/EHU has assessed the effectiveness of various drugs, which are used to delay cognitive deterioration in patients with Alzheimer's, in improving cognitive impairment displayed by patients with schizophrenia.

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