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Psychiatric Hospital Chain's Charges; Schizophrenia Drug Flops; Bright Light Therapy

— News and commentary from the psychiatry world

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Acadia Healthcare, a , faces new federal charges after it just agreed to a nearly $20 million settlement over accusations it defrauded government health insurers by holding patients longer than necessary. (New York Times)

Compared with usual care, a primary care intervention across practices in Germany involving real-time video sessions between patients and mental health specialists helped . (The BMJ)

, alleging that the platform is deliberately addictive and fueling a mental health crisis among youth. (AP)

Neurocrine Biosciences said it for cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia after the investigational drug failed to meet its primary endpoint in a phase II trial.

Short-term increases in were linked with increased risks of schizophrenia hospitalizations -- independent of the absolute air pollution concentrations -- in a case-crossover study of over 800,000 Chinese patients. (JAMA Network Open)

The results of may be affected by the time of day blood is taken. (Translational Psychiatry)

revealed she has obsessive compulsive disorder and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. (People)

Adjunctive improved rates of nonseasonal depression symptom remission and treatment response when added to an antidepressant, according to a meta-analysis of 11 trials. (JAMA Psychiatry)

Suicide attempts increased among living in states that enacted anti-transgender laws. (Nature Human Behavior)

In a cluster randomized trial in Pakistan of , a nonspecialist-delivered psychosocial intervention (Learning Through Play Plus Dads) yielded greater improvements in depressive symptoms compared with usual care. (JAMA Psychiatry)

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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.