Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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2 papers

Risks of all-cause and suicide mortality in mental disorders: a meta-review

Edward Chesney, Guy M. Goodwin, Seena Fazel
World Psychiatry Summary & key facts 2014 2,040 citations

This study reviewed systematic reviews to measure death risks in major mental disorders. The authors screened 407 reviews and found 20 that reported mortality risks for 20 different disorders, covering over 1.7 million patients and more than a quarter of a million deaths. Every disorder showed higher all-cause death rates…

Bipolar Disorder and Treatment Mental Health Treatment and Access Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

Risk of suicide and all-cause death in patients with mental disorders: a nationwide cohort study

Hyewon Kim, Jin‐Hyung Jung, Kyungdo Han, Hong Jin Jeon
Molecular Psychiatry Summary & key facts 2025 9 citations

This large South Korean study followed 3,951,398 adults for an average of 11.1 years to compare deaths in people with and without recorded mental disorders. After adjusting for age, sex, health conditions, income, smoking, drinking and physical activity, people with mental disorders had higher rates of suicide and higher overall…

Bipolar Disorder and Treatment Mental Health Treatment and Access Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
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