@jitendra Healthcare providers should consider incorporating screening for everyday stress during follow-up patient visits to better spot people at high risk of a poor recovery and further hospitalizations, she added. When possible, they could guide patients to resources to help them manage and reduce their stress levels.

@gursharan Mental distress has been called the "elephant in the room" for patients with prostate cancer that doesn't require treatment right away. For years, these concerns were largely ignored, according to advocates and health professionals.

@pratap Today, there remains a need for experienced healthcare professionals to work the night shift. Health facilities tend to offer a 15% pay increase, on average, to incentivize physicians to work nights.

@ridaz-0 This may allow clinicians to accurately match MDD patients with the best treatment option and dispense with the current trial-and-error system that is both time consuming and costly.

@niraj Between 2001 and 2003, a subset of HRS participants underwent extensive neuropsychological assessment in the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS), providing data which have since been cited by hundreds of published studies, the investigators wrote in JAMA Neurology. Those data, however, failed to accurately represent the U.S. population at the time, and have not been updated since.

@patatri Previous studies have identified characteristics that increase the risk of involuntary inpatient admission, but the association between patients' communication ability and coercive measures has not been explored, they noted.
In a study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, the investigators reviewed data from 1,556 adults who were admitted to psychiatric inpatient care at a single center in Germany in 2019. Patients' communication ability was defined and recorded as one of the following: perfect; limited because of language or other reasons; or impossible because of language or other reasons (no communication).

@rahul This gives hope to patients who believe nothing can change and they have to live with a disease forever because it is 'set in stone' in their brain

@win-tim Personal superstitions around a black cat crossing your path being an ominous sign or a lucky charm bringing good fortune can also arise from personal experience. When people connect two unrelated events — like winning a sporting event while wearing a particular jersey or pair of socks — Once they see that link, it can be quite difficult to stop, because it is spontaneous and unconscious.

@rajashree For the new research, nightmares were defined as "the experience of strong negative emotions occurring usually during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. They involve images and thoughts of aggression, interpersonal conflict, and failure, and emotions like fear, anger, and sadness." Nightmare disorder is characterized as having such dreams so frequently that they cause "significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning."

@aronyak The results suggest that it may be worthwhile to investigate the targeted use of natural sounds such as birdsong in a clinical setting — for example, in hospital waiting rooms or in psychiatric settings

@dev-narayan Being aware of and watchful for symptoms of cognitive decline is advised for patients with psychotic disorders in middle and later life. People with psychotic disorders are also at higher risk for other health issues.

@ryansh For the urine anion gap, the most prominently unmeasured cation is NH4+. Healthy subjects typically have a gap of 0 to slightly normal (< 10 mEq/L). A urine anion gap of more than 20 mEq/L is seen in metabolic acidosis when the kidneys are unable to excrete NH4+ (such as in renal tubular acidosis). If the urine anion gap is zero or negative but the serum AG is positive, the source is most likely gastrointestinal (diarrhea or vomiting).

@varshita Mental health boarding has become increasingly common as psychiatric care resources have been stretched by a crisis in pediatric mental health that began even before the COVID pandemic. Since youth often don't receive evidence-based therapies while boarding

@maleel negative mind pops are very common with anxiety. don’t overreact to them with fear Because they’ll stick around. slow down your mind several times a day. stop what you are doing, sit down or lay down and do some long slow deep breathing. I also listen to a 10-minute meditation for anxiety found on YouTube. doing this helps me to regroup and feel much better.

@sanian if you have a mild UTI, drinking plenty of water should help make it feel better within a couple days or so.
if you still don’t feel well after drinking water and cranberry juice let your doctor know so you can discuss the possible use of medication.

@shanny ok please try to calm down. I know what health anxiety is like and for you, this is really real! you have to try resetting it. believe your Drs and understand that anxiety can CAUSE lots of symptoms. I've been there and sounds to me like your symptoms are anxiety related. try to meditate or go for a walk or run.

believe your Drs and try to keep perspective. I know its hard.

@thelle The risk of suicidal thoughts and actions is not well studied in transgender and nonbinary youth. To expand the evidence base, the researchers analyzed data for 6800 adolescents aged 15 to 17 years from the 2019 Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth. The sample included 1130 (16.5%) adolescents who identified as having some degree of same-gender attraction, 265 (4.3%) who were unsure of their attraction ("questioning"), and 50 (0.6%) who were transgender, meaning they identified as being of a gender different from that assigned at birth.

@valarie The ABCD study is a longitudinal study of over 11,000 children who were recruited to reflect the sociodemographic variation of the US population

@bubbly In an open-label feasibility study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, they recruited 26 adults with MDD in current depressive episodes of moderate to severe severity. In addition to maintaining their current treatment regimens of medication, psychotherapy, or cognitive behavioral therapy, participants used tDCS at home in 30-minute sessions, for a total of 21 sessions over 6 weeks. A researcher was present in person or on a real-time video call for each at-home session.

@humbly The team reviewed 57 young female patients with cancer whose ovarian hormone levels following completion of chemotherapy had been documented and who had entered survivorship programs at Penn State Health from 2008–2017. Patients' ages ranged from 2–21 years at time of diagnosis, and they were split equally between those diagnosed before age 13 and those diagnosed after that age. Diagnoses included leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma, and solid tumors.