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In patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), erectile and sexual dysfunction (SD) are significantly associated with psychological factors, but IBD severity appears to have no impact on such conditions, suggests a recent study. Likewise, the type of medication used to treat the underlying disease has no influence on SD development.

While maternal anxiety does not appear to be associated with adverse perinatal outcomes, it does present a risk for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), according to data presented at SMFM 2022.

Recent findings by the Multimodal Treatment Study of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; MTA) question the belief that nearly half of the children with ADHD outgrow the disorder when they reach adulthood. In majority of the cases, symptoms come and go between childhood and young adulthood.

The SIMPLe app, an internet-delivered self-management mobile intervention for bipolar disorder (BD), sees high rates of attrition, particularly among young users and patients who had only recently been diagnosed, according to a recent study.

The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to self-reported increases in psychological distress and gastrointestinal symptoms among individuals with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and comorbid anxiety and/or depression, reveals a study.

Prenatal maternal anxiety is correlated with markers of epigenetic age acceleration in male infants, irrespective of other genetic, socioeconomic, or obstetric risk factors, according to a recent study

The Stanford neuromodulation therapy (SNT), a high-dose intermittent theta-burst stimulation (iTBS) protocol with functional-connectivity-guided targeting, demonstrates better efficacy than sham stimulation for treatment-resistant depression, according to the results of a double-blind, randomized controlled trial.