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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…