Articles related to MENTAL HEALTH

An expert commentary argues that persistent physical symptoms should be approached through a balanced framework that validates patient suffering, excludes dangerous medical illness, and incorporates evidence-informed understanding of brain-body mechanisms without dismissing symptoms as psychological.

Childhood ADHD was associated with higher rates of adult psychiatric and neurologic hospitalization in a Finnish birth cohort followed into adulthood, while most somatic health outcomes showed little evidence of a sustained association.

Testimony from a psychiatrist in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has highlighted how clinical documentation, incomplete information, and retrospective interpretation of psychiatric records can become central evidence in legal proceedings without resolving underlying questions of diagnosis or criminal responsibility.

Physical symptoms following antidepressant cessation are generally transient and consistent with established discontinuation phenomena, while persistent or delayed symptoms remain difficult to explain pharmacodynamically and may involve psychiatric, psychological, or somatic contributors.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies involving more than 230,000 adolescents found that greater social jet lag was associated with higher anxiety levels. The findings identified a consistent but small association and did not establish causality.

Childhood trauma was associated with altered hippocampal reward-pathway connectivity and greater adult anhedonia in a large neuroimaging cohort. The findings identify a potential neurobiological link but did not establish causality.