Mental and Behavioral Health

Four posters presented at this year’s American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting & Exposition assessed the potential impact of pharmacist interventions on improving mental health outcomes.

Results from a meta-analysis on the side of effects of the psychedelic psilocybin were presented at the 2024 American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting & Exposition.

Stimulant medications are the first-line pharmacologic therapy for ADHD, but many of these medications are currently in short supply.

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Researchers studied the effect of wildfires on mental health in California from 2011 to 2018.

Cybin’s proprietary deuterated psilocybin analog, CYB003, provided robust and sustained improvements in depression symptoms in a phase 2 study.

Medical spending on pediatric mental health conditions accounted for 46.6% of all pediatric medical spending in 2021.

Mind Medicine’s lysergide d-tartrate (MM120) demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in anxiety symptoms in a phase 2b study.

The increasing use of antidepressants observed before and after the public health crisis suggests a concerning mental health trend, especially among females.

On January 6, 2023, the FDA granted lecanemab-irmb (Leqembi) accelerated approval for treating mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia in patients with Alzheimer disease.

Study results suggesting that long-term cumulative use of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication increases the risk of CVD could prompt potential adjustments in treatment approaches for ADHD.

Mental health challenges in the United States were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and pharmacists are poised to help pick up the pieces.

Even during times of peak transmission, individuals preferred in-person screening over video or telephone screening for depression.

The NDA submitted by Lykos Therapeutics was assigned a Prescription Drug User Fee Act date of August 11, 2024.

A new study found that 52% of participants with treatment-refractory unipolar or bipolar depression achieved remission after 3 ketamine infusions.

After facing challenges, Biogen is discontinuing development and sales of aducanumab (Aduhelm) and focusing on lecanemab (Leqembi).

Compared to only 10% of primary and subspecialty visits, 34.5% of mental health visits took place via video in August 2023.

Investigators recommended that isotetinoin be used with extreme caution among patients with a history of mental illness in light of study findings.

Despite affecting 13 million Americans annually, existing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatments offer modest relief and more effective approaches are needed.

Increased clinical awareness around the value of lithium monitoring was ultimately achieved.

New study findings conflict with long-understood associations between maternal depression and the postpartum period and highlight the potential need for public health policy revisions.

The NDA was submitted for investigational muscarinic antipsychotic, KarXT (xanomeline-trospium), which functions as a dual M1/M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor agonist within the central nervous system.