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• APA Awarded $14.2 Million Grant to Improve Treatment for Serious Mental Illness Psychiatric News (6 days ago) - APA has been awarded a five-year, $14.2 million grant to create an educational and support system to expand access to care for the 11 million adults in this country who...
• Clinicians Develop New Rating Scale for Perimenopausal Depression Psychiatric News (Friday, 29 June) - Key differences in depressive symptoms that arise during perimenopause (the period immediately before menopause) suggest that perimenopausal depression may be a distinct subtype of depression, but scales to measure or...
• Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Appears No Better Than Sham in Veterans With Depression Psychiatric News (Thursday, 28 June) - Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) helped more than 40% of veterans with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) to reach remission, but this remission rate was about the same as the benefit seen...
• Depression Severity May Predict Akathisia Risk With Aripiprazole Augmentation in Older Adults Psychiatric News (Wednesday, 27 June) - Adding the antipsychotic aripiprazole to an antidepressant regimen can benefit older patients with treatment-resistant depression, but the strategy comes with risks: aripiprazole augmentation can cause extrapyramidal symptoms, such as akathisia...
• Parent-Child Psychotherapy Leads to Improvements in Young Children With Depression Psychiatric News (Wednesday, 20 June) - An adapted parent-child psychotherapy proven to help children with disruptive disorders may also reduce symptoms of depression in very young children, according to a study published today in AJP in...
• Autistic Traits Associated With Elevated Depression in Youth Aged 10 to 18 Psychiatric News (Monday, 18 June) - At age 10, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and those with high levels of autistic traits have more depressive symptoms than children in the general population, reports a study...
• Social Communication Impairments in Childhood Sometimes Linked to Later Suicidal Behavior Psychiatric News (Tuesday, 22 May) - Children who have difficulty communicating in social situations—a trait common in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)—may be at higher risk for suicidal ideation and behavior in late adolescence compared...
• Resistance Exercise Training May Reduce Symptoms of Depression Psychiatric News (Tuesday, 15 May) - Resistance exercise training appears to significantly reduce depressive symptoms among adults regardless of health status, the time spent exercising, or whether the training resulted in significant improvements in strength, according...

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