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Clozapine: Its Use and Monitoring
Rounds in the General Hospital

July 30, 2024

The authors provide the latest information on clozapine use, including when your patients should receive or avoid taking it, what laboratory tests are required before and during administration, and…
Desta S. Lissanu, Chirag M. Vyas, Carol S. Lim, et al
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Pharmacologic Management of TBI
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July 16, 2024

Cognitive complaints, including difficulties with attention, concentration, and memory, are common in patients post-TBI; however, many medications have been studied in the treatment of cognition after TBI. Read on…
Sofia E. Matta, Christina LaCroix, Kaloyan Tanev, et al
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Evaluation and Management of Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia
Rounds in the General Hospital

July 2, 2024

If you have ever been uncertain about how to evaluate patients with a chronic psychotic illness or struggled over how best to manage treatment-resistant schizophrenia, then this case vignette…
Carol S. Lim, Abigail L. Donovan, Chirag M. Vyas, et al
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Neuropsychiatric Complications of Hypervitaminosis D
Rounds in the General Hospital

June 13, 2024

A 28-year-old man presented to the emergency department with severe agitation, insomnia, weakness, constipation, and muscle jerks after nonsuicidal overdosing of vitamin D.
James K. Rustad, Adam Z. Spitz, Brandon C. Wilson, et al
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Impact of Disability on Medical Care
Rounds in the General Hospital

June 6, 2024

Given that many people have disabilities, physicians should develop skills that assess the level of disability, the functional consequence of illness, and the social and physical environments of patients…
Mirza Baig, Andrew S. Chun, Ashika Bains, et al
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Management of Rumination and Obsessions in Primary Care
Rounds in the General Hospital

May 30, 2024

Difficult-to-control negative repetitive thoughts can manifest as ruminations or obsessions. Appropriate early identification and intervention can positively affect the course and prevent an episode of psychiatric illness.
Sharmin Ghaznavi, Charlotte Schiewe, Theodore A. Stern

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Original Research

August 15, 2017

Functional impairment often persists after the remission of an anxiety disorder. Read this article to learn whether this impairment reflects a continuation of lower functioning that predated the illness,…
Simone M. E. Schopman, Margreet ten Have, Saskia van Dorsselaer, et al
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ASCP Corner

August 8, 2017

The potential for pharmacogenetic testing to help guide treatment is currently a hot topic within Psychiatry. In this ASCP Corner article, Joseph F. Goldberg considers whether the technology has…
Joseph F. Goldberg
JCP
Original Research

August 8, 2017

Depression occurs in nearly 22% of new mothers within the year after the birth. Telephone care management could offer a flexible and efficient way to reach out to these…
Katherine L. Wisner, Dorothy K. Y. Sit, Mary McShea, et al
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Original Research

August 1, 2017

Could mood-stabilizing medications be increasing patients’ risk of developing kidney disease? This large, nested case-control study looks at the degree of risk associated with lithium and valproate treatment in…
Soham Rej, Nathan Herrmann, Kenneth Shulman, et al
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Original Research

August 1, 2017

Delirium can be a very disturbing, and often stigmatizing, experience. This placebo-controlled study, set in intensive care units and acute wards, investigates administration of suvorexant near the time of…
Kotaro Hatta, Yasuhiro Kishi, Ken Wada, et al
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Original Research

July 25, 2017

What if an objective physical marker of depression severity could be identified? Read this article to see the relationships found between severity of depression and levels of monoamine metabolites…
Hyung Shin Yoon, Kotaro Hattori, Shintaro Ogawa, et al
JCP
Original Research

July 25, 2017

Could you correctly diagnose a patient with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia? This original research article compares the clinical presentation of this disorder with those of psychiatric disorders such as…
Everard G. B. Vijverberg, Sigfried Schouws, Paul David Meesters, et al
JCP
Original Research

July 25, 2017

Cognitive deficits are common in depression, but studies suggest that cognitive dysfunction is difficult to treat with antidepressants. Can adding an atypical antipsychotic medication to antidepressant treatment help lessen…
Nadia Iovieno, Richard C. Shelton, Samuel R. Petrie, et al
JCP
Original Research

July 18, 2017

In 2015, the FDA removed WBC monitoring altogether and reduced the threshold for ANCs before interruption of clozapine treatment was required. The current study looks at almost 250 clozapine-treated…
Ryan S. Sultan, Mark Olfson, Christoph U. Correll, et al
JCP
Article

July 18, 2017

Besides joyful thoughts, a new mother can be disturbed by sudden, frightening intrusive thoughts of harm done to her baby. Read this comprehensive review of research on this obsessive…
Elke C. Brok, Patricia Lok, Desiree B. Oosterbaan, et al
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Original Research

July 11, 2017

Read a study discussing the possibility of early pharmacotherapeutic treatment being able to prevent PTSD.
Joseph Zohar, Leah Fostick, Alzabeta Juven-Wetzler, et al
JCP
Original Research

July 11, 2017

Although psychoeducation can benefit patients with borderline personality disorder, the lack of trained personnel and the cost of implementation have prevented widespread adoption of this treatment. Read this article…
Mary C. Zanarini, Lindsey C. Conkey, Christina M. Temes, et al

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