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Acute Onset of Mood and Psychotic Symptoms After Rapid Discontinuation of a GLP-1 Agonist
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists are prescribed for type 2 diabetes and obesity due to their effectiveness in improving glycemic control and promoting weight loss. GLP-1 receptors are distributed in the central nervous system and…
Bound for Calmness: Voluntary Rope-Tying Behavior in Late-Life Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — Late-life generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) with panic attacks may present with atypical somatic and behavioral symptoms, creating diagnostic confusion with psychosis, delirium, akathisia, or neurocognitive disorders.1 We report an elderly patient with severe anxiety who…
39 new behavioral health study findings to know
A series of recent studies highlights widening gaps in mental health access, shifting prescription patterns and mixed outcomes across behavioral healthcare in the U.S. The findings point to growing pressures on providers, uneven availability of services and emerging questions around the effectiveness of both traditional…
When Antidepressants Stop Working: Understanding Tachyphylaxis in Clinical Practice
When an antidepressant seems to stop working, the patient’s deterioration is real. The explanation may be less certain. — From Psychiatric Times articles Read More
Virginia mental health provider to settle Medicaid billing allegations for $1.8M
Negril, a mental health and disability care company, and its owners agreed to a $1,817,910.60 civil settlement over allegations of improperly billing Virginia Medicaid for mental health services. Federal officials alleged that Negril submitted claims for mental health skill-building services performed by a separate company…
Covenant Health taps behavioral health VP
Gabriela Barth joined Knoxville, Tenn.-based Covenant Health as vice president of behavioral health services. Ms. Barth most recently served as interim CEO with Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare, overseeing behavioral health hospital operations. She also completed the organization’s CEO-in-Training program, according to an Oct. 16 news…
Ketamine drugmakers seek FDA approval as providers raise concerns: 5 things to know
More than a dozen companies are racing to win FDA approval for ketamine-based mental health treatments. Providers warn that one company’s bid could sharply raise the cost of the generic drug, while most of the new products are designed to skip the talk therapy many…
MGB hospital to launch metabolic psychiatry center with $20M grant
Belmont, Mass.-based McLean Hospital, part of Mass General Brigham, plans to establish a metabolic psychiatry center backed by a $20 million grant from Baszucki Group, an organization founded by Roblox CEO David Baszucki and Jan Ellison Baszucki that funds research at the intersection of metabolism…
Online sports betting legalization tied to 6.73% rise in depression diagnoses among men
States that legalized online sports betting saw increases in antidepressant and anti-anxiety medication use, along with outpatient diagnoses of depression and anxiety, a study published Oct. 14 in JAMA Psychiatry found. Researchers at the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzed employer-sponsored health…
BayMark Completes Out-of-Court Debt Restructuring
Lewisville, Texas-based BayMark Health Services announced Monday that it completed its new-money recapitalization and a debt-for-equity exchange. The deal, revealed earlier in the year, marks a notable stumble among scaled, private equity-backed addiction treatment providers. And it was not alone in having its equity seized…
What Do Patient-Level Studies Tell Us About Antidepressants and Suicide Risk?
The evidence points toward an overall protective effect in adult cohorts and no increase in completed suicide in younger populations. — From Psychiatric Times articles Read More
Boston Children’s leader heads to Rhode Island’s only pediatric psych hospital
East Providence, R.I.-based Bradley Hospital named Chase Samsel, MD, vice president and chief medical officer. Dr. Samsel, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and physician, will lead the hospital’s clinical programs and advance its mission to provide evidence-based pediatric behavioral healthcare, according to an Oct. 19…
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