Kate Tantam (She/her) ⁦‪@TantamKate‬⁩ Not sure how to help patients who are delirious….. Start here ⬇️ Happy #WDAD2022 #Rehablegends pic.twitter.com/phN2lQ8w3b 3/16/22, 3:48 AM

USPSTF Deems Existing Evidence Insufficient For Screening For Eating Disorders In Asymptomatic Adolescents And Adults

According to MedPage Today (3/15, Monaco), the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) “deemed existing evidence insufficient (grade ‘I’) to make a recommendation in favor or against screening for eating disorders in” asymptomatic adolescents and adults, “concluding that ‘the balance of benefits and harms cannot be determined.’” This recommendation “applies to adolescents (ages 10 years and older) and adults with a normal or high body mass index (BMI) who exhibit no signs or symptoms of eating disorders, such as rapid weight loss, weight gain, or pronounced deviation from growth trajectory, pubertal delay, bradycardia, oligomenorrhea, or amenorrhea.”

HealthDay (3/15) reports that in arriving at its decision, the USPSTF included data “from 57 studies, with 10,773 participants; three studies (1,073 participants) were limited to adolescents.” The USPSTF’s recommendation statement and the evidence report underlying the task force’s decision were published March 15 in JAMA. HCPlive (3/15, Kunzmann) also covers the story.

Joseph (Joe) E. Thornton, M.D., DFAPA

	UF Health ⁦‪@UFHealth‬⁩ Despite needing to move to a telehealth format because of COVID-19, participants in a UF weight loss study lost a comparable amount of weight to in-person programs. These results support continued use of telehealth for intervention delivery. ⁦‪@UFPHHP‬⁩ ufhealth.org/news/2022/uf-s… pic.twitter.com/AACKWyDVX3 3/15/22, 9:31 AM

	UF McKnight Brain Institute ⁦‪@UFMBI‬⁩ In ⁦‪@BuzzFeedNews‬⁩ feature, Dr. ⁦‪@Michael_Jaffee‬⁩ shares some ways that music may help promote better sleep. Jaffee is a sleep medicine specialist at the ⁦‪@UFHealth‬⁩ Sleep Disorders Center, vice chair of ⁦‪@UF‬⁩ neurology & director of ⁦‪@UFBrainInjury‬⁩. buzzfeednews.com/article/katiec… 3/14/22, 12:18 PM

	UF MD-PhD ⁦‪@UFMDPhD‬⁩ Incredible work by the new Dr. ⁦‪@ChuJHsiao‬⁩ that expands the understanding of how psychosocial stress from societal violence is biologically embedded in health. She also gave a shoutout as to how her MD-PhD class is considered #GOAT with the best acknowledgement slide of all time. pic.twitter.com/QWCTgFxkFc 3/14/22, 2:06 PM

	STAT ⁦‪@statnews‬⁩ In the next year, U.S. regulators may approve gene therapies – to treat sickle cell disease. But gene therapies come with a high price tag — and it’s estimated that roughly 40% of sickle cell patients are covered by #Medicaid. buff.ly/35UOqlP 3/14/22, 5:25 PM

	Eric Topol ⁦‪@EricTopol‬⁩ Two new important papers on understanding and debunking Covid misinformation and conspiracy theories ⁦‪@NatureMedicine‬⁩ nature.com/articles/s4159… nature.com/articles/s4159… ⁦‪@Sander_vdLinden‬⁩ ⁦‪@ed_pertwee‬⁩ ⁦‪@ProfHeidiLarson‬⁩ pic.twitter.com/qL1Oa8edzG 3/10/22, 11:37 AM

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/07/health/covid-brain-changes-study-wellness/index.html

https://alert.psychnews.org/2022/03/apa-issues-statement-on-ukraine-offers.html

Not discussed in detail but logical follow up – can we learn about the pathophysiology o psychosis from his neuropathic correlation as I suggested in 1986 poster to APA.

Association of Variation in Behavioral Symptoms With Initial Cognitive Phenotype in Adults With Dementia Confirmed by Neuropathology | Dementia and Cognitive Impairment | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network

Pillai JA, Bena J, Rothenberg K, Boron B, Leverenz JB. Association of Variation in Behavioral Symptoms With Initial Cognitive Phenotype in Adults With Dementia Confirmed by Neuropathology. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(3):e220729. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.0729

Joseph (Joe) E. Thornton, M.D., DFAPA