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Background: Adolescent eating disorders pose a significant public health challenge and strongly affect both physical and emotional well-being. Early diagnosis is important for improving treatment outcomes, though it remains complex due to multiple influencing factors. The family perspective is essential in this process, as it provides valuable insights into changes in adolescents' habits and emotional health.

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  • * Recent efforts to stop smoking haven't been put into action yet, and it’s important to see what could happen if smoking rates stay the same or improve.
  • * Researchers used models to predict health outcomes by 2050 based on different scenarios of smoking rates, showing that cutting smoking could greatly improve health and life expectancy.
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  • Researchers studied strokes from 1990 to 2021 to understand how many people get them and how they are affected around the world.
  • In 2021, strokes caused about 7.3 million deaths and were a major cause of health problems, especially in specific regions like Southeast Asia and Oceania.
  • There are differences in stroke risks based on where people live and their age, and some areas actually saw more strokes happening since 2015.
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Unlabelled: The phenomenon of chemsex has emerged as an essential public health issue in recent years. This systematic review aimed to investigate currently available harm reduction strategies and to evaluate the efficacy of the corresponding interventions.

Methods: A systematic review of the scientific literature related to harm and risk reduction strategies and the effectiveness of chemsex interventions.

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Antipsychotic use in a large community sample of patients with delusional disorder.

Schizophr Res

September 2024

Department of Psychiatry, Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, Rey Juan Carlos University Hospital, Móstoles, Spain; CIBERSAM (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental), Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, Madrid Autonomous University, Madrid, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, General Hospital of Villalba, Madrid, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, Infanta Elena University Hospital, Valdemoro, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes, Nimes, France; Department of Psychiatry, Health Research Institute Jimenez Diaz Foundation, Madrid, Spain.

Background: To examine clinical and sociodemographic differences between patients with delusional disorder; with and without diagnoses of an additional severe mental disorder (SMD) or cognitive impairment.

Methods: Population-based study including all individuals diagnosed with DD between 2005 and 2021 from a large catchment area in Madrid, Spain. Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and the antipsychotic prescription patterns of the study population was described.

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  • Caregiving for individuals with dementia is a long-term stressor that negatively impacts caregivers' physical and mental health.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic worsened these challenges due to social isolation, contagion risks, and reduced access to healthcare resources.
  • The commentary discusses the lasting mental health effects of the pandemic on caregivers, highlighting a study by Olavarría and colleagues and suggesting future research directions for diverse family caregivers.
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Background: Functional limitations are associated with poor clinical outcomes, higher mortality, and disability rates, especially in older adults. Continuous assessment of patients' functionality is important for clinical practice; however, traditional questionnaire-based assessment methods are very time-consuming and infrequently used. Mobile sensing offers a great range of sources that can assess function and disability daily.

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Depressive disorders represent the largest proportion of mental illnesses, and by 2030, they are expected to be the first cause of disability-adjusted life years [1]. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated prevalence and burden of depression and increased the occurrence of depressive symptoms in general population [2]. The urgency of implementing mental health services to address new barriers to care persuaded clinicians to use telemedicine to follow patients and stay in touch with them, and to explore digital therapeutics (DTx) as potential tools for clinical intervention [2].

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(1) Background: In the "post-COVID-19 era", there is a need to focus on properly assessing and addressing the extent of its well-established mental health collateral damage. The "Electronic Mental Wellness Tool" (E-mwTool) is a 13-item validated stepped-care or stratified management instrument that aims at the high-sensitivity captures of individuals with mental health disorders to determine the need for mental health care. This study validated the E-mwTool in a Spanish-speaking population.

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Hallucinations are currently associated almost exclusively with psychopathological states. While it is evident that hallucinations can indicate psychopathology or neurological disorders, we should remember that hallucinations also commonly occur in people without any signs of psychopathology. A similar case occurs in the case of hallucinogenic drugs, which have been long associated with psychopathology and insanity.

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Confounding factors leading to misdiagnosing ventricular tachycardia as supraventricular in the emergency room.

Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J

December 2022

Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Department, Biocor Instituto, Rede Dor São Luis, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Electronic address:

Studies conducted during the last 50 years have proposed electrocardiographic criteria and algorithms to determine if a wide QRS tachycardia is ventricular or supraventricular in origin. Sustained ventricular tachycardia is an uncommon reason for consultation in the emergency room. The latter and the complexity of available electrocardiographic diagnostic criteria and algorithms result in frequent misdiagnoses.

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We present the case of a 42-year-old female patient with a diagnosis of schizophrenia who, 24 hours after the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, developed a delirium on this topic. This case report illustrates how current news is processed by psychotic patients. Relevant current events can be incorporated into delusional themes due to the intensity and immediacy of information by the media.

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Patterns of Differentially Expressed circRNAs in Human Thymocytes.

Noncoding RNA

March 2022

Genome Dynamics and Function Program, Genome Decoding Department, Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center (CBMSO), CSIC-Madrid Autonomous University, 28049 Madrid, Spain.

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are suggested to play a discriminative role between some stages of thymocyte differentiation. However, differential aspects of the stage of mature single-positive thymocytes remain to be explored. The purpose of this study is to investigate the differential expression pattern of circRNAs in three different development stages of human thymocytes, including mature single-positive cells, and perform predictions in silico regarding the ability of specific circRNAs when controlling the expression of genes involved in thymocyte differentiation.

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