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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Psychiatry

Psychiatry current awareness bulletin

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October 2025

ADHD drug treatment and risk of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, accidental injuries, transport accidents, and criminality: emulation of target trials

Bipolar disorder (Lancet review)

Building community capacity in mental health care with the Strong Minds–Strong Communities programme: a randomised controlled trial in the USA

Cognitive and mental health outcomes in Long COVID

Dysmenorrhea and adolescent mental health: a school-based cross-sectional study

The emergent motherhood mental health advantage: did pandemic times make a difference?

How effective are remote and/or digital interventions as part of alcohol and drug treatment and recovery support? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Lifetime stressor exposure is related to suicidality in autistic adults: a multinational study

Medication experiences in the treatment of opioid use disorders: insights from Reddit

Mental health burden of persons living in Ukraine and Ukrainians displaced to Switzerland: the mental health assessment of the Ukrainian population (MAP) studies

Metabolic brain changes in post-acute COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis of [18F]-FDG-PET findings

Neighborhood opportunity and residential instability: associations with mental health in middle childhood

Palliative management of depression in advanced cancer

Pathway of effects of adverse childhood experiences on psychological distress and substance use among emerging adults: a structural equation modeling approach

People are being involuntarily committed, jailed after spiraling into "ChatGPT psychosis"

Propofol versus methohexital in electroconvulsive therapy: impact on treatment efficacy and adverse effects

The psychology of social isolation and loneliness in later life

Rare but relevant: ketamine-induced cystitis – an in-depth review for addiction medicine

The role of pubertal development in the association between trauma and internalising symptoms in female youth

Sex differences in psychiatric diagnoses preceding autism diagnosis and their stability post autism diagnosis

Sex differences in the clinical correlates of nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents – a systematic review

Shared and distinct structural and functional brain alterations in adolescents with major depressive disorder

Trends and disparities in maternal self-reported mental and physical health

Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review

Sources

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Aug); Addiction (Aug); Australian Journal of General Practice (Aug); Autism (May); BJOG (Aug); BMJ, The (Jul-Aug); BMJ Global Health (Aug); Brain Structure and Function (Aug); Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health (Jul-Aug); Clinics in Geriatric Medicine (Aug); Demography (Jun); Futurism website (Jun); JAMA Internal Medicine (Jul); Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (Jul-Aug); Lancet, The (Aug); Tobacco Control (Aug)

August 2025

Addictive screen use trajectories and suicidal behaviors, suicidal ideation, and mental health in US youths

Analysis of serious adverse incidents reported to RQIA where the diagnosis is addictions/substance misuse September 2025 (updated April 2025)

Association between genetic liability to physical health conditions and comorbidities in individuals with severe mental illness: an analysis of two cross-sectional observational studies in the UK

Atypical antipsychotics for autism spectrum disorder: a network meta‐analysis (new Cochrane intervention review)

Comparative effectiveness of interventions to facilitate deprescription of benzodiazepines and other sedative hypnotics: systematic review and meta-analysis

Digital therapy for chronic tic disorders and Tourette syndrome: early value assessment (new NICE guideline HTE25)

Effects of a general practitioner-led brief narrative exposure intervention on symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after intensive care (PICTURE): multicentre, observer blind, randomised controlled trial

Electronic cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking in young people: a systematic review

Growing health concern regarding gambling addiction in the age of sportsbooks

The impacts of e-cigarette flavours: an overview of systematic reviews

An intensive weight loss programme with behavioural support for people with type 2 diabetes at risk of eating disorders in England (ARIADNE)

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy versus treatment as usual after non-remission with NHS Talking Therapies high-intensity psychological therapy for depression

Non-mental health inpatient and emergency care hospital costs associated with four mental disorders in Europe

A novel discovery platform for targeted drug repurposing: application for psychiatric disorders

Pharmacological treatment of anxiety in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Positive psychological interventions for substance use, addiction and recovery: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

Post‐incident debriefing for people with schizophrenia after coercive measures (new Cochrane intervention review)

Recommendations for defining treatment outcomes in major psychiatric disorders using real-world data

Reevaluating the brain disease model of addiction

Relative risks of adverse effects across different opioid agonist treatments—a systematic review and meta-analysis

Temporal dynamics in the association between depression and dementia: an umbrella review and meta-analysis

Sources

Addiction (Jun-Jul); BMJ, The (May-Jun); Cochrane Library (May-Jun); eClinicalMedicine (May); JAMA (Jun); JAMA Internal Medicine (Apr); Lancet Psychiatry, The (Jun-Jul); RQIA website (Apr)

June 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic and the worldwide online interest in telepsychiatry: an infodemiological study from 2004 to 2022

Eating disorders: a review (JAMA)

Efficacy of cannabidiol alone or in combination with Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol for the management of substance use disorders: an umbrella review of the evidence

Extended-release pharmacotherapies for substance use disorders in incarcerated populations: a systematic review

Factors that affect the resilience of young adults to depression: a systematic review

Finding the right treatment for severe depression

The global, regional, and national late-life depression burden and trends from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Heat and mental health

Illicit substance use and treatment access among adults experiencing homelessness

Impulsivity behaviors and white matter mediate the relationship between genetic risk for cannabis use disorder and early cannabis use in adolescents

INTEGRATE: international guidelines for the algorithmic treatment of schizophrenia

Long COVID psychiatric sequelae, biochemical markers and tau protein: a 3-year follow-up study

A nationwide study of risk factors for long COVID and its economic and mental health consequences in the United States

Psychological interventions for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Rare but relevant: nitrous oxide and peripheral neurotoxicity, what do we know?

Suicide risk and associated factors in Parkinson disease: a nationwide cohort study

Switching antipsychotics versus continued current treatment in people with non‐responsive schizophrenia (new Cochrane intervention review)

What is the impact of sports-related gambling advertising on gambling behaviour? A systematic review

Sources

Addiction (Mar-May); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Apr); Australian Journal of General Practice (Jan-Feb); BMJ, The (Apr); Cochrane Library (Mar-Apr); European Journal of Neurology (Mar); Frontiers in Digital Health (Apr); JAMA (Apr); Lancet Psychiatry, The (May); Nature Communications Medicine (Apr); Psychiatry Research (May)

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