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Common Mental Disorder Elevates Risk for Subsequent Obesity

However, obesity is not associated with elevated risk for later mental disorder.

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Subjectively Poor Sleep Correlates with Postpartum Depression

  • Neurology

In a questionnaire study, this association held true even after adjustments for other known risk factors for depression.

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Deep Brain Stimulation: Slow Speed Ahead

More needs to be learned about patient selection, electrode placement, and outcomes before routine clinical adoption of DBS for depression or OCD.

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Collaborative Care Improves Guideline Concordance for Bipolar Disorder

However, whether it improves outcomes remains unknown.

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Implications of Comorbid Anxiety for Prognosis of Bipolar Disorder

Anxiety adds to risks for subsequent depression in bipolar patients.

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Varenicline Use and Risk for Self-Harm and Suicide

Patients who received varenicline, bupropion, or nicotine replacement all had similar risks.

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Psychological Health in Central Hypersomnias: The French Harmony Study

  • Neurology

An ambitious and impressive study of central hypersomnias — including cataplectic narcolepsy, narcolepsy without cataplexy, and idiopathic hypersomnia — helps to clarify the associations of these entities with each other, with depressive symptomatology, and with treatment response.

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Treating Depressed Cardiac Patients? Omega-3s Don't Help the Depression

Omega-3 fatty acids do not appear to augment the effects of sertraline in depressed patients with cardiac disease.

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Depression Is Bad for Your Heart

And attaining remission significantly improves mortality risk in patients with acute coronary syndromes.

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Genetic Risk Factors for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

A genetic study finds strong connections between PTSD and genes that regulate activity in the glucocorticoid receptor.

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