ADDitude

MAY 13, 2025

In research examining eating disorder symptoms among women aged 45 to 61, body dissatisfaction was cited as a key risk factor. In 2024, more than 21% of calls to the National Alliance for Eating Disorders, a support and advocacy organization I founded in 2000, were from individuals (primarily women) age 40 and older. Loera, T.T.,

Eating disorders 70

Eating disorders Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Education 70

Clear Behavioral Health

MAY 2, 2025

Depression commonly refers to a mental health disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and a loss of interest in activities that you once enjoyed. Depression can be caused by acombination of genetic, biological, environmental, and psychological factors. 877.799.1985 What is Depression?

Genetics and mental health 52

Genetics and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

One even boasted about doing so twice, once ‘on behalf of my Asian son from Germany who is the same age as me.’ Another paper confirmed that, like the public but unlike most psychiatrists, the majority of people who are prescribed antipsychotics have psycho-social rather than bio-genetic causal explanations for their difficulties 11.

Sleep and mental health 145

Sleep and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health 145

Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

2 Or you are told you have a lack of insight into your disease, which is a symptom of your mental illness, a catch-22 situation from which there is no escape. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Health issued a licence to kill. Depression and antidepressants in Australia and beyond: a critical public health analysis (PhD thesis).

Neurotransmitters and mental health 142

Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality 142

ADDitude

MAY 18, 2025

While testosterone levels fluctuate slightly throughout the course of the day, their levels remain stable from the end of adolescence until roughly age 40. Similar results were found in a 2024 systematic review of 55 studies investigating the role of pubertal hormones on mental health conditions.

Aging and mental health 85

Aging and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health 85

Department of Psychiatry News

JULY 1, 2025

Valeria Frighi Dr Frighi was a Senior Clinical Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry and an Honorary Consultant in Endocrinology and Diabetes at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Her work focused on improving health outcomes for people with intellectual disabilities and those experiencing severe mental illness.

Genetics and mental health 52

Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health 52

Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. 23,24 In 2013, I estimated that, in people aged 65 and above, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines or similar, and depression drugs kill 209,000 people annually in the United States. for those aged 70-79.

Aging and mental health 145

Aging and mental health Hospitality Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health 145

ADDitude

MAY 27, 2025

To advance our understanding of ADHD in females, research that seeks to understand the mechanisms underlying how sex hormones may influence ADHD symptoms is essential, they wrote, calling for a multi-disciplinary approach that combines assessments of hormone levels with neurocognitive, brain imaging, genetic, or neurophysiological investigations.

Genetics and mental health 93

Genetics and mental health Anxiety disorders Aging and mental health Healthcare 93