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Another Mid-Stage Psychedelic Win; Gun Suicides Reach High; Magnetic Seizure Therapy

— News and commentary from the psychiatry world

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Investigational deuterated psilocybin analog, CYB003, by 14 points on the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale by day 21 in a phase II study, said developer Cybin.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals of JZP441 -- an investigational sleep disorder treatment -- due to adverse events like cardiovascular effects and visual disturbances. (FierceBiotech)

in the U.S. reached an "unprecedented high" in 2022, a CDC report found. (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)

Specific auricular acupuncture over 6 weeks was safe but not more than nonspecific auricular acupuncture after 3 months in a randomized trial. (JAMA Network Open)

Traumatic memories appeared to have , which may explain why they can be vivid and intrusive. (Nature Neuroscience)

Magnetic seizure therapy performed just as well as ultrabrief pulse right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy and had fewer adverse effects when . (JAMA Psychiatry)

Workers at the Sutter Center for Psychiatry in Sacramento, California, today over poor working conditions. (Becker's Hospital Review)

Researchers developed a novel screening tool -- the -- to help predict mental health outcomes for hospitalized trauma patients. (Journal of the American College of Surgeons)

More early negative life events, a thicker orbitofrontal cortex at the age of 14, and accelerated orbitofrontal cortex thinning throughout adolescence predicted . (JCPP Advances)

The Senate health care committee will consider a sweeping bill next week , sources told STAT.

Bilateral high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation helped improve , as well as event-based prospective memory. It didn't help time-based prospective memory, though. (Neuropsychopharmacology Reports)

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    Kristen Monaco is a senior staff writer, focusing on endocrinology, psychiatry, and nephrology news. Based out of the New York City office, she’s worked at the company since 2015.