Children whose mothers screened positive for ADHD symptoms had lower parent-rated quality of life at follow-up, in a Spanish school cohort of 456 children with and without ADHD. Fathers’ ADHD symptoms showed no such link, and children’s conduct problems tracked their own ADHD instead.1 Research Highlights Lower quality of life with a positive maternal screen: …
Adults with type 2 diabetes who also had ADHD died at a higher rate than those without ADHD in a 2026 study of 1.9 million adults newly diagnosed with diabetes across 7 countries. They did not, however, have more heart attacks, strokes or cardiovascular deaths.1 Research Highlights Higher death rate with ADHD: after adjusting for …
In a 2026 Alberta study of 1,070 adults leaving psychiatric hospital care, 40% returned to an emergency department for mental health reasons within a year. The strongest warning signs were social rather than clinical: a recent emergency visit before admission (3.72 times the odds), unstable housing (2.60 times), and unemployment (1.57 times).1 Research Highlights Recent …
A 2026 German-Austrian cohort analysis found that people with schizophrenia who were taking quetiapine scored modestly higher on demanding working-memory tests than sex- and age-matched patients who were not, with the largest gap at doses of 300 mg a day or less.1 Because patients were not randomized to quetiapine, this is an association; the advantage …
At entry to US specialty clinics, 34% of 2,951 young people with first-episode psychosis reported suicidal thoughts and 7% had attempted suicide in the previous 6 months. A 2026 Early Psychosis Intervention Network (EPINET) analysis found odds fell 76% for thoughts and 85% for attempts over 2 years of care.1 With no comparison group, the …
A 2026 multicenter Italian cohort followed 216 early Parkinson’s disease patients for 24 months after levodopa initiation and found sex/gender differences in non-motor symptom burden.1 Women had higher anxiety, pain, mobility, and emotional-well-being burden, while men had higher hypersexuality. Research Highlights Longitudinal sample: The study followed 216 early levodopa-naive Parkinson patients, including 139 men and …
SSRIs raise bleeding risk on their own. DOACs (direct oral anticoagulants — apixaban, rivaroxaban, dabigatran, edoxaban) raise it more. The intuitive worry is that combining them stacks the two effects. A new BJGP Open analysis from Chau and colleagues argues the stacking is smaller than most popular framings claim, and that the real safety question …