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EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author William E. Copeland, Ph.D., call Sarah Avery at 919-660-1306 or email sarah.avery@duke.edu. CHICAGO – Victims of bullying during childhood were at increased risk of anxiety disorders in adulthood, and those who were both victims and perpetrators were at increased…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013   JAMA Psychiatry Study Highlights   Study Examines Factors for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders in Israeli Soldiers A study by Ilan Wald, M.A., of Tel Aviv University, Israel, of infantry soldiers suggests that combat exposure interacts with threat-related attention, placing soldiers at risk for post-traumatic stress…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013   JAMA Psychiatry Study Highlights   Study Compares Electrical Current Therapy vs. Drug for Major Depressive Disorder   In a clinical trial, Andre R. Brunoni, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and colleagues examined the safety and efficacy of electrical current therapy…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013   JAMA Psychiatry Study Highlights   Study Examines Response to Scopolamine in Major Depressive Disorder   Maura L. Furey, Ph.D., of the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., and colleagues conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study together with repeated functional…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013   JAMA Psychiatry Study Highlights   Personality-Targeted Prevention Program for Adolescent Alcohol Use and Misuse Patricia J. Conrod, Ph.D., with Universite de Montreal, Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire Ste Justine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and colleagues conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial to report 24-month outcomes of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013   JAMA Psychiatry Study Highlights A relative decline in cognitive performance in adolescence and young adulthood, particularly in verbal ability, is associated with increased risk for psychosis in adulthood, and a relative decline in verbal ability between ages 13 and 18 years is a stronger…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013   JAMA Psychiatry Study Highlights A survey of 6,483 adolescents ages 13 to 18 years and their parents estimates the lifetime prevalence of suicide ideation, plans and attempts are 12.1 percent, 4 percent and 4.1 percent, respectively (Online First). A study in Australia, which included…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Seethalakshmi Ramanathan call Susan Cole 315-464-6547 or email colesu@upstate.edu. CHICAGO – The larger economic environment during infancy may be associated with subsequent substance use and delinquent behavior during adolescence, according to a report published Online First by Archives of General Psychiatry,…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Børge Grønne Nordestgaard, M.D., D.M.Sc., email Boerge.Nordestgaard@regionh.dk. CHICAGO – Elevated levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammatory disease, appear to be associated with increased risk of psychological distress and depression in the general population of adults in Denmark,…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2012   Archives of General Psychiatry Study Highlights Cancer incidence rates among patients with psychiatric disorders do not appear to be increased compared to rates among the general population, however a study of mental health records linked with cancer registries and death records from January 1988…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2012   Archives of General Psychiatry Study Highlights Parents of children who committed suicide appear to be at increased risk for adverse mental health outcomes (including depression, anxiety, alcohol use or dependence, drug abuse or dependence, suicide attempts and dementia), and social outcomes (low or loss…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2012 Archives of General Psychiatry Study Highlights A population-based study in rural Thailand suggests that parents with all their children migrated out of the rural area at baseline had a lower odds of depression at one-year follow-up compared with parents with no or only some children…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 Archives of General Psychiatry Study Highlights A study that measured the fecundity (the ability to reproduce) of patients with schizophrenia, autism, bipolar disorder, depression, anorexia nervosa or substance abuse and their unaffected siblings compared with the general population suggests that except for women with depression,…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 Archives of General Psychiatry Study Highlights A study of 158 soldiers that tested whether soldiers’ emotional reactivity to enriched CO2 inhalation before deployment would predict their psychological adjustment while deployed in Iraq suggests that the presence of predeployment emotional reactivity potentiated (enhanced) the effects of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2012 Archives of General Psychiatry Study Highlights A report on two studies in Ireland suggests that psychotic symptoms are associated with increased risk for suicidal behavior in the general adolescent population and in adolescents with psychiatric disorder. The results indicate that psychotic symptoms were associated with…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Rachel G. Klein, Ph.D., call Allison Clair at 212-404-3753 or email allison.clair@nyumc.org. CHICAGO – Men who were diagnosed as children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) appeared to have significantly worse educational, occupational, economic and social outcomes in a 33-year, follow-up study that compared…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Theresa L. Osypuk, Sc.D., Sc.M., call Lauren Dibble at 617-373-5460 or email l.dibble@neu.edu. CHICAGO– Although some girls benefited from a program that moved families from high-poverty areas to low-poverty areas, boys and adolescents from families with preexisting health-related vulnerabilities did not…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Linda A. Teplin, Ph.D., call Marla Paul at 312-503-8928 or email marla-paul@northwestern.edu. CHICAGO– A study of juveniles detained in Chicagosuggests that more than 45 percent of males and nearly 30 percent of females had one or more psychiatric disorders with associated…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2012 Archives of General Psychiatry Study Highlights A study of juveniles detained in Chicago suggests that more than 45 percent of males and nearly 30 percent of females had one or more psychiatric disorders with associated impairment five years after detention (See news release below). A…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Zdenka Pausova, M.D., call Caitlin McNamee-Lamb at 416-813-7654, ext. 1436 or email caitlin.mcnamee-lamb@sickkids.ca. CHICAGO – Prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking appears associated with an increased risk for adolescent obesity, and is possibly related to subtle structural variations in…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2012 Archives of General Psychiatry Study Highlights Prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking appears associated with an increased risk for adolescent obesity and is possibly related to subtle structural variations in the brain that create a preference for eating fatty foods (Online First; see news release…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012 Archives of General Psychiatry Study Highlights Patients with hoarding disorder (defined as the excessive collection of objects and an inability to discard them) exhibited abnormal activity in regions of the brain that was stimulus dependent when deciding what to do with objects that did or…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact David F. Tolin, Ph.D., call Rebecca Stewart at 860-545-4285 or email rstewart@harthosp.org.  CHICAGO– Patients with hoarding disorder exhibited abnormal activity in regions of the brain that was stimulus dependent when deciding what to do with objects that did or did not…

  EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 2, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Yuting Zhang, Ph.D., call Allison Hydzik and Cyndy McGrath at 412-647-9975 or email hydzikam@upmc.edu and mcgrathc3@upmc.edu. CHICAGO– The Medicare Part D coverage gap was associated with reduced use of antidepressants in a study of beneficiaries 65 years or older with depression,…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 2, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Patrick F. Sullivan M.D., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P., call Karen Moon at 919-962-8595 or email karen_moon@unc.edu. CHICAGO – Schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in first-degree relatives, such as parents or siblings, may be associated with increased risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 2, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact author Robert Bodén. M.D., Ph.D., email robert.boden@neuro.uu.se. CHICAGO– A study that examined maternal use of antipsychotic drugs during pregnancy suggests that these medications may be linked to an increased risk of gestational diabetes, according to a report in the July issue…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 2, 2012 Archives of General Psychiatry Study Highlights A study that examined the maternal use of antipsychotic drugs during pregnancy suggests that these medications may be linked to an increased risk of gestational diabetes (see news release below). Schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in first-degree relatives, such as…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser, Ph.D., call Emily Caldwell at 614-292-8310 or email caldwell.151@osu.edu. CHICAGO – A study of 91 patients at a university medical center suggests that a troubled early parent-child relationship in combination with a severe life event in…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012   Archives of General Psychiatry Study Highlights A study of 91 patients at a university medical center suggests that a troubled early parent-child relationship in combination with a severe life event in the past year may be associated with immune responses to a basal cell…