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In the wake of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, the vast majority of US mental health providers surveyed adjusted their practices rapidly, with 80% transitioning to telehealth services by late March or early April 2020.

Christoph Correll, MD, and Sanjai Rao, MD, respond to questions asked by attendees of a Psych Congress 2020 session they presented on managing weight gain and metabolic disruptions in patients with schizophrenia.

A majority of inpatients with schizophrenia who were treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) demonstrated clinical improvement, irrespective of whether they were capable of consenting before psychiatric treatment, a study found.

Patients with depression are less likely to receive guideline-concordant outpatient depression treatment if they have co-occurring substance use disorder, researchers found in a study published online in The American Journal of Psychiatry.

Psychedelic treatment, provided in combination with supporting psychotherapy, was found to produce “rapid and large reductions” in symptoms of major depression in a study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Findings from the...

A machine-learning analysis misclassified only 5% of adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in a study that also included adults with obesity or problematic gambling and control subjects.

Having multiple depressive symptoms is associated with increased risk of incident stroke, according to a study published in Neurology: Clinical Practice.