Mental and Behavioral Health

Cariprazine is already approved to treat schizophrenia and bipolar I in adults.

Zuranolone treatment in patients with major depressive disorder demonstrates a rapid and statistically significant reduction in depressive symptoms.

A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that all the responding programs had at least one initiative to expand behavioral health services.

Combined oral contraceptives were found to be moderately more efficacious than placebo for treating overall premenstrual symptomatology in women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) or premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).

Abigail Donovan, MD, discusses what brexpiprazole can do for treating schizophrenia in older children.

Further research is needed to determine causation.

First time outpatient visits for mental health services were sharply increased compared with the period before the pandemic.