It is a useful screening tool in the clinical setting to facilitate assessment of depression in older adults especially when baseline measurements are compared to subsequent scores. More on the ...

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Mental health professionals regularly assess the progress of therapy and rely on two important tools to ... a specific assessment of suicide risk separate from the depression evaluation.

Embracing the neurodiversity paradigm, which views autism as a difference in brain wiring rather than a disorder to be fixed, is not only a clinical imperative but a societal one.

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Inclusion of measures of depression and anxiety to the American Heart Association Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) prediction model has little additional impact on risk ...

Johnson & Johnson has announced the FDA’s approval of a first-of-its-kind, esketamine nasal spray called Spravato for the ...

Depression can be treated but the first step is determining whether symptoms are present. This test could help. Using the key below, answer the questions based on how strongly you agree or ...

“By saying this single day is the most depressing day of the year, without any evidence, we are trivialising how serious depression can be.” “Mental health is the biggest health challenge of ...

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