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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Older Adults With Stress Disorders and Neurocognitive Difficulties: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Stress and stress-related disorders such as depression and anxiety can accelerate neurocognitive aging. Could a mindfulness intervention be a way to enhance memory and clinical outcomes in older patients? Read this intriguing article to see what the authors found.
National Trends in Antidepressant, Benzodiazepine, and Other Sedative-Hypnotic Treatment of Older Adults in Psychiatric and Primary Care
Prescriptions of antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and sedative-hypnotics have increased in older adults, even among patients with no mental health diagnosis. Read this journal CME article comparing trends in psychiatry versus primary care.
Persistence of Specific Phobia From Adolescence to Early Adulthood: Longitudinal Follow-Up of the Mexican Adolescent Mental Health Survey
Specific phobia is the most prevalent psychiatric disorder and has both early childhood onset and high comorbidity. Read this study of over 1,000 adolescents to see if persistence of specific phobia can be predicted, thus allowing clinicians to help alleviate future comorbidity.
Benzodiazepine and "Z-Drug" Dependence: Data From a Tertiary Care Center
Benzodiazepine and Z-drug dependence are frequently comorbid with other substance use and psychiatric disorders. Read this brief report to gain a greater understanding of the clinical characteristics and course of substance dependence in this group of patients.
Doomed for Disorder? High Incidence of Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Offspring of Depressed and Anxious Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study
Environmental and genetic risk factors influence whether a person will develop depression as well as what the prognosis will be. This study looked at illness incidence over 10 years to assess the magnitude of risk for offspring of patients treated for anxiety and depression.
Efficacy and Safety of Vilazodone in Patients With Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Flexible-Dose Trial
The worries that characterize generalized anxiety disorder are so pervasive and excessive that they distort cognition and create a considerable burden of illness. See what the authors of this study found while evaluating the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of vilazodone as an acute treatment for GAD.
Anxiety
Older individuals with chronic illness often suffer considerable anxiety thinking about their illness. Although chronic illness alone represents something patients often can do little to control, they can learn ways to manage how they respond to anxious feelings. Read this Psychotherapy Casebook article to find out more.
Acute Swedish Massage Monotherapy Successfully Remediates Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Proof-of-Concept, Randomized Controlled Study
Almost half of all people with generalized anxiety disorder seek some type of complementary and alternative therapy. See how massage therapy affected anxiety symptoms in this randomized controlled monotherapy trial.
Sustained Resolution of Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder With a Single Ketamine Infusion: A Case Report
The antidepressant efficacy of ketamine is clear, but what about its use in other psychiatric disorders? Read about a case of sustained symptom relief following a single ketamine infusion in a patient with treatment-refractory panic disorder, agoraphobia, and generalized anxiety disorder.
Impact of Anxious Symptoms and Comorbid Anxiety Disorders on Functional Impairment in Depressed Patients
Explore this activity to understand the relationship between, and impact of, depression and anxiety, and discover strategies to assess and treat both depressive and anxious symptoms in your patients.
