Treatment preferences among men attending outpatient psychiatric services Authors: Sierra Hernandez CA1, Oliffe JL, Joyce AS, Söchting I, Ogrodniczuk JS. Gender differences are particularly interesting when it comes to mental health. A lot of research suggests women are more likely to suffer from psychiatric disorders than men, particularly depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Many factors, like social inequality and a […]
Depression, psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, suicideA genetic mutation may explain why Alzheimer’s is for Women and Autism is for Men. Some researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel are adding new insights to what has been understood about the causes of autism and Alzheimer’s disease. It turns out that a mutation in a brain protein called ADNP can cause variations in neurologic […]
Alzheimer's, autism, Genetics, psychiatryActivity-dependent neuroprotective protein (ADNP) exhibits striking sexual dichotomy impacting on autistic and Alzheimer’s pathologies AUTHORS: A Malishkevich, N Amram, G Hacohen-Kleiman, I Magen, E Giladi and I Gozes ABSTRACT Activity-dependent neuroprotective protein (ADNP) is a most frequent autism spectrum disorder (ASD)-associated gene and the only protein significantly decreasing in the serum of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients. Is ADNP […]
Alzheimer's, autism, Genetics, psychiatry
Predicting Suicides After Psychiatric Hospitalization in US Army Soldiers The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) This large study, over a 6 year period, which included review of almost 54,000 hospitalizations of soldiers for psychiatric admission diagnoses, allowed the authors to create an algorithm which might allow doctors to predict […]
Preventive Medicine, psychiatry, suicide, Veterans