The use of antidepressants is associated with sexual side effects including reduced genital sensitivity that persists after stopping the medication, a new Simon Fraser University study finds.

The study, published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, indicates that 13 per cent of people who used antidepressants reported a reduction in genital sensitivity, compared to one per cent of users of other psychiatric medications. 

By decoding the DNA of the beaked hazelnut (Corylus cornuta), a native plant that thrives in British Columbia, a team of multidisciplinary scientists is providing new insight into how ancestral Indigenous peoples stewarded plants across the province. 

Led by Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, an assistant professor in Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Department of Indigenous Studies, the innovative study was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), a major scientific journal. 

White people in rural America have unique factors that drive worse health outcomes than their urban counterparts, prompting a team of public health researchers to label whiteness as a fundamental determinant of health.  They say while the health and well-being of racially minoritized populations should continue to be a research priority they urge researchers to consider factors that influence the health of majoritized populations.

A study led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) finds that a deficit in a specific gene is associated with social behavioral differences often present in psychiatric disorders.

Parents don't need to be blamed or shamed when providing sex education to their children, they need better support to help them safely parent their children in an increasingly complicated, digital world without compromising their values, say researchers from the University of Surrey. 

Deciding when to stop driving can be challenging for older adults and their families. A study published today in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society shows that using a decision aid tool can be beneficial and help older adults when faced with this difficult decision.

In a randomized clinical trial with more than 300 participants, researchers looked at the long-term impact of providing Healthwise®, an online driving decision aid, to older adults to help reduce uncertainty towards their intent to continue or stop driving.

The researchers found overall, after two years of follow up, the group who used the online driving decision aid had significantly less personal uncertainty about which action to take (i.e., less decisional conflict) and less distress after making a decision (i.e., less decision regret) than the group who didn’t use the decision aid.