Mental Health Dominates Telehealth; Top Psychiatrist Sued; College PTSD Doubles

In 2021, 43.2% of visits to psychiatrists occurred by telehealth versus 4.5% of visits to other physicians. (Annals of Internal Medicine)

One in three U.S. adults knew someone who died of a drug overdose, cross-sectional data showed. (JAMA Health Forum)

According to a 29-study meta-analysis, people with schizophrenia had significantly lower bone mineral density at the lumbar spine and femoral neck, and a higher risk of fracture. (Translational Psychiatry)

A prominent 91-year-old psychiatrist and former friend of Jeffrey Epstein was sued earlier this week for allegedly making a woman into a “sex slave.” (Reuters)

Known as 5-Cog, a 5-minute cognitive assessment tool improved dementia diagnoses and care in primary care patients. (Nature Medicine)

The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among college students more than doubled from 2017 to 2022. (JAMA Network Open)

Text descriptions of mental illness have shifted away from terms like “disease” and “disturbance” and towards terms like “psychiatric” and “mental health” over the past 80 years. (PLOS Mental Health)

Canada licensed a startup to export psilocybin and MDMA to Australia for medical use. (Bloomberg)

Otsuka Pharmaceutical will throw in the towel on its investigational Alzheimer’s disease-related agitation treatment AVP-786 after it failed in a late-stage study.

Teens diagnosed with internet addiction have disrupted signaling between brain regions important for controlling attention, researchers found. (PLOS Mental Health)

HHS expanded mental health access by adding 10 new states to a Medicaid behavioral health program.

Two forms of psychotherapy — a skill-oriented, material-based cognitive behavioral therapy and a supportive, patient-centered, emotion-focused therapy — were equally effective in preventing recurrence of a new bipolar episode. (JAMA Psychiatry)

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