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Australian adolescents who reported eating more fruit and drinking fewer sugar-sweetened beverages were less likely to cross depression or anxiety screening thresholds over three years, although the observational findings did not establish causality.

Nurses and NPs accounted for a small share of youth mental health visits but more often treated older, socioeconomically vulnerable patients, with substantial regional differences in this national observational analysis using data through 2019.

Women with bulimia nervosa demonstrated smaller total cortical surface area and reduced nucleus accumbens volume compared with healthy controls in a large international neuroimaging study, with more frequent binge-eating episodes associated with additional structural differences across brain regions involved in reward, cognitive control, and interoception.

Cannabis use at psychiatric admission was associated with a higher risk of early rehospitalization among young adults hospitalized for bipolar or psychotic disorders, although the association weakened over time and was no longer statistically significant by six months.

Five years after participation in randomized trials, children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder who received choline supplementation during early childhood demonstrated higher nonverbal IQ and working-memory performance than peers who received placebo, suggesting the intervention may influence long-term neurodevelopmental trajectories.

Using the television comedy “Abbott Elementary” as a framework, a pediatric resident explores parallels between teaching and pediatrics, arguing that both professions are sustained by a deep commitment to children while facing chronic underinvestment, workforce shortages, and moral injury.