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Hypertension may double the risk of late-onset epilepsy
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
“Our findings further expand upon our knowledge of the negative effects hypertension has on brain health.”
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Telehealth safe, effective for a challenging psychiatric disorder
- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
The study included 64 patients with borderline personality disorder who were treated for the first time in the Rhode Island Hospital partial...
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Alopecia tied to a threefold increased risk for dementia
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
“AA shares a similar inflammatory signature with dementia and has great psychological impacts that lead to poor social engagement,” lead author Dr...
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Social determinants of health may drive CVD risk in Black Americans
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Investigators analyzed 20 years of data on over 50,500 U.S. adults drawn from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys.
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What if your patient refuses to disrobe?
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
"Find a way to create some kind of meeting, even very briefly, and establish rapport before the patient changes into a gown."
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Substance abuse boosts COVID hospitalization, death risk, even after vaccination
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Investigators found about twice as many individuals with an SUD had a breakthrough COVID-19 infection as their counterparts without an SUD.
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Gut health ‘vitally important’ for mental health
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
“It’s clear that clinicians need to place a greater awareness of gut health when considering the treatment of certain psychiatric disorders.”
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Antipsychotics tied to increased breast cancer risk
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
“Inform patients about a potential risk to allow for informed shared decision-making,” said study coauthor Dr. Christoph U. Correll.
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CBT via telehealth or in-person: Which is best for insomnia?
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
The take-home message is that patients with insomnia can be treated with CBT-I by video telehealth "without sacrificing clinical gains," said Dr....
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The trauma and healing of 9/11 echo in COVID-19
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
“To me, 9/11 placed psychological first aid on the map,” said Dr. Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, who was involved in early interventions for Sept. 11...
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Early data for experimental THC drug ‘promising’ for Tourette’s
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
"We conducted an uncontrolled study in adults with severe TS and found that their tics improved over time while they took THX-110."
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Low depression scores may miss seniors with suicidal intent
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Only half of older adults (52%) in the study met criteria for major depression, determined on the basis of the Mini International Neuropsychiatric...
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‘Reassuring’ findings for second-generation antipsychotics during pregnancy
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
“For women with major mood and/or psychotic disorders, treatment with an atypical antipsychotic during pregnancy may be the most prudent clinical...
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Short-term approach is best for seizure prevention after intracerebral hemorrhage
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
“Strategies that involved long-term antiseizure drug prescription fail to provide better outcomes in most clinical scenarios,” Dr. Lidia M.V.R....
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Even 10 minutes of daily exercise beneficial after ICD implantation
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- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Significant reductions in hard clinical outcomes shown in a new study reiterate the “profound” underutilization of cardiac rehabilitation,...