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Common postpartum mental health issues, including depressive symptoms, might be guarded against with parental leave policies in place, according to the findings of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in The Lancet Public Health.

Family psychoeducation offers a small but statistically significant improvement in depressive symptoms in people with MDD.

Associations between trauma and childhood psychiatric disorders are already present by age 6 and hold across a range of diagnostic groupings at age 11, according to study results published in Lancet Psychiatry.

MAPS Public Benefit Corporation plans to submit a new drug application for MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of PTSD after a multisite Phase 3 study delivered positive results with no serious adverse events observed.

Patients with treatment resistant depression (TRD) have a 23% higher chance of death, use twice as much outpatient care, and spend 3 times longer in inpatient care than other depressed patients, according to cohort study findings recently...

The US FDA approved LEQEMBI™ (lecanemab-irmb) via the Accelerated Approval pathway for the treatment of early Alzheimer disease.

Vitamin B9 could be an inexpensive treatment for suicidal ideation, though more studies are needed.

Functional MRI neurofeedback (fMRI-NF) may be ineffective in improving clinical symptoms or cognition in boys with ADHD.