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Risk Factors for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

Children from lower-income families face multiple challenges including limited access to prenatal care, inadequate nutrition during pregnancy, and unstable housing situations that disrupt educational continuity. Socioeconomic factors represent critical environmental influences on ADHD development and management.

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Accutane and Mental Health: Converging Physical and Emotional Well-being

Lightwork

Research has found that isotretinoin may have potential psychiatric side effects, including mood changes and depression. Mixed Findings in Research A 2016 meta-analysis published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry found no significant increase in depression risk among isotretinoin users compared to control groups.

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Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 2: Rational Approaches to Recovery

Mad in America

In fact, he was known for treating some mood disorders with opiates—a practice my former doctor (who knew Dr. B) rejected because of the inherent dangers of opiate use. ” I promised him and kept that promise until 2016, when I was coming off Latuda and he prescribed the same opioid. She quipped, “ Everyone has bipolar.”

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Sex and Psychiatry: The Sizzling, Steamy, Neglected Topic

Psychiatric Times

She also wished to stress the importance of a holistic approach that includes exercise, sleep, nutrition, and connectedness. Updated January 2016. If that does happen, she tells them to message her over the patient portal, as most patients feel less fear or anxiety in messaging about sexual health in that way. References 1.

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Dear Mr. Kennedy

ADDitude

2, 3, 4 Lifestyle factors such as nutrition, exercise, and sleep exert epigenetic changes on DNA that influence how strongly or weakly ADHD genes are expressed. Levels of dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin also increase with exercise, thus improving focus, working memory, and mood to enable better learning. Epub 2016 Nov 15.

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Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later

Mad in America

The suicides seemed to trigger a general darkening in the mood at the schools. As of 2016, we child and adolescent psychiatrists are only about 8,000 in number. Besides lifestyle psychiatry, there are many other alternative approaches to helping teens in psychiatric distress: to name just one, Dr. James Greenblatt’s nutritional model.