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PCC
Letter to the Editor

August 17, 2017

This young man who tried to quit smoking by using varenicline learned that smoking was the least of his problems. Find out when his symptoms started and how long...
Taha Can Tuman
PCC
Letter to the Editor

August 17, 2017

Review these 2 cases to see whether medicating patients with schizophrenia who are not complaining of short sleep duration provides benefit to the patient or caregiver. 
Bhanu Prakash Kolla, Meghna P. Mansukhani, J. Michael Bostwick
PCC
Letter to the Editor

August 10, 2017

Clozapine use can produce another side effect in some patients: elevated CPK. But when nothing else works and the patient finally shows response, should you risk a rechallenge even...
Yuka Takahashi, Tomomi Ogihara, Daimei Sasayama, et al
PCC
Letter to the Editor

August 3, 2017

Clinicians should be able to recognize and manage potential side effects of clozapine, including myocarditis. However, treatment guidelines do not currently recommend a monitoring protocol for clozapine-induced myocarditis. This...
David R. Goldsmith, Robert O. Cotes
PCC
Letter to the Editor

August 3, 2017

It took 6 years for this patient with pathological giddiness to trek through a morass of specialists and find the proper diagnosis of moria, a condition perhaps most commonly...
Victoria C. de Leon, John Bilbily, Charles Shelton, et al
PCC
Letter to the Editor

July 27, 2017

How would you help the patient with schizophrenia who believes that suicide is the only way to save his family? What about when he tries to starve himself? Read...
Nabeel Wahid, Jessica J. Kim, Robert G. Bota
PCC
Letter to the Editor

July 27, 2017

A patient nonadherent to oral medication is always a challenge. These clinicians wanted to move theirs to depot drug administration to ensure better compliance. Fortunately, they started with oral...
Prashant Tibrewal, Rohan Dhillon, Jaya Sharma, et al
PCC
Letter to the Editor

July 20, 2017

Patients with alcohol use disorders have a higher rate of gambling disorder than patients without alcohol use disorders. Read this case report of a patient with concurrent alcohol use...
June C. Lee, Alexandra G. Takayesu
PCC
Letter to the Editor

July 20, 2017

When addressing changes in symptom severity in patients with psychiatric disorders, it is important to consider psychosocial stressors before jumping to pharmaceutical interventions. Here, read 2 cases presented to...
Arash Javanbakht
PCC
Letter to the Editor

July 6, 2017

Antipsychotic medications have been shown to have significant interactions at acetylcholine receptors that may exacerbate symptoms in patients with myasthenia gravis. Here, read the first documented case of the...
Stuart Kyllo, Daniel McBride, Miranda Chakos
PCC
Letter to the Editor

June 29, 2017

Dystonic reactions have not been commonly described with the second-generation antipsychotic lurasidone. Here, read the case of a patient with schizophrenia who developed episodes of recurrent oculogyric crises with...
Prashant Tibrewal, Rachel Cheng, Tarun Bastiampillai, et al
JCP
Letter to the Editor

June 28, 2017

Gregory Oxenkrug
PCC
Letter to the Editor

June 15, 2017

Clozapine is the only antipsychotic approved for treatment-resistant schizophrenia; however, its use is limited due to potentially life-threatening side effects. Here, read the first report of an association between...
Tiago A. Duarte, Filipe D. G. Godinho, André L. B. Ferreira, et al
PCC
Letter to the Editor

June 15, 2017

Ms A presented to a dermatology clinic and reported ecchymosis on her legs. She recently started taking fluoxetine for depression. Could fluoxetine be the culprit? Read this case report...
Buğra Çetin, Mine Ergelen
PCC
Letter to the Editor

June 8, 2017

Although mood disorders are not uncommon in patients with paraphilias, subthreshold presentations, especially cyclothymia, are often missed. This is a report of voyeurism in a young man with an...
Smitha Ramadas
PCC
Letter to the Editor

June 1, 2017

This case report describes a young woman who developed caffeine intolerance after long-term use of fluoxetine, despite having enjoyed coffee previously with no ill effects. The authors discuss possible...
Faraz Jamal, Aishwarya Durgam, Genesy Aickareth, et al
PCC
Letter to the Editor

May 25, 2017

Annually, about 250 to 1,000 deaths in the US result from autoerotic asphyxiation. This case report describes an older man with schizoaffective disorder who was admitted after being discovered...
Richard Ha, Andrew Lee, Kye Y. Kim
PCC
Letter to the Editor

May 25, 2017

Inappropriate sexual behavior is common in patients with frontotemporal dementia. So, what are the challenges of managing such patients in long-term care settings? Read this case report and discussion...
Ali Najafian Jazi, Shady S. Shebak, Kye Y. Kim
JCP
Letter to the Editor

May 24, 2017

This case report describes the development of rabbit syndrome, an uncommon extrapyramidal side effect involving fine, rapid mouth movements, in a woman treated with lurasidone.
Jared L. Reichenberg, Kathryn K. Ridout, Kenneth C. Rickler
JCP
Letter to the Editor

May 24, 2017

JCP
Letter to the Editor

May 24, 2017

Elizabeth Q. Cox, Nathaniel A. Sowa, Samantha E. Meltzer-Brody, et al
JCP
Letter to the Editor

May 24, 2017

Manish Dama, Ryan J. Van Lieshout, Meir Steiner
JCP
Letter to the Editor

May 24, 2017

Terence A. Ketter, Leslie Citrome
PCC
Letter to the Editor

May 18, 2017

Osteoporosis is a disease of growing impact as the world population becomes older. Are depressed individuals at higher risk of bone fractures and premature frailty? This study investigates the...
Federico Di Giovanni, Juliano S. de Medeiros, Pedro H. Santos Neto, et al

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