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Daily tailored text messages offering advice and encouragement to risky drinkers based on self-reported goal achievement cut their drinking in half, results of a new study show.

US suicide rates rose sharply over the past 20 years, especially among American Indian/Alaska Native populations and White men, new data from the CDC show.

Emergency room visits for schizophrenia spectrum disorders increased by 15% following the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, data from a large observational study showed.

Owning a pet is associated with slower decline in verbal memory and fluency for older adults who live alone, new longitudinal data show.

A brief, telephone-based psychological intervention delivered to seniors in the United Kingdom during COVID-19 pandemic mitigated symptoms of depression, new study results showed.

California wildfires are linked to a significant increase in psychotropic medication prescriptions for those living in affected areas, a new study shows.

Certain stimulants are associated with a lower risk for psychiatric and nonpsychiatric hospitalization and suicide, data from large new study showed.

Early-life exposure to air and noise pollution is linked to a higher risk for psychosis, depression, and anxiety in adolescence and early adulthood, new data showed.

Specific antipsychotics prescribed in high doses were linked to an increased risk for pneumonia in patients with schizophrenia, new research showed.

Moderate exercise in midlife is associated with a reduced risk for ALS later in life, but this benefit appears to be limited to men, findings from a large prospective study showed.