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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
Rounds in the General Hospital

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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Letter to the Editor

February 22, 2017

Nenad Jakšić
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Meta-Analysis

February 22, 2017

While exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy is effective for anxiety disorders, many patients often experience inadequate results from this treatment. This meta-analysis examines whether d-Cycloserine as an adjunct to CBT might…
Joseph F. McGuire, Monica S. Wu, John Piacentini, et al
d-Cycloserine in Exposure Therapy “>
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Article

February 22, 2017

Experts in the treatment of depression have emphasized the importance of striving for remission. But how do you know when your patient’s depression has remitted? Do different standardized scales…
Mark Zimmerman, Emily Walsh, Michael Friedman, et al
JCP
Article

February 22, 2017

Read 2 articles identifying predictors of mood outcome in treatment-resistant depression and bipolar/mood disorders.
Erika F. H. Saunders
JCP
Article

February 22, 2017

Does lithium use increase the risk of developing dementia? This study used data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database to assess the possibility of increased risk in…
Chin Cheng, Peter Zandi, Elizabeth Stuart, et al
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Article

February 22, 2017

Which of your patients with depression are more likely to be treatment-resistant? A European research group looked for possible influences on treatment outcome of 48 clinical, sociodemographic, and psychosocial…
Alexander Kautzky, Pia Baldinger-Melich, Georg S. Kranz, et al
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Article

February 22, 2017

A key to improving prognosis in bipolar depression may lie in analysis of specific symptoms. This reanalysis of the STEP-BD dataset provides clues to help you determine which patients…
Jin Mizushima, Hiroyuki Uchida, Mitsuhiro Tada, et al
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Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology

February 22, 2017

Propensity score matching, or the probability that a subject will receive a particular treatment, is one way to address baseline differences between treatment groups in observational studies. In this…
Chittaranjan Andrade
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Original Research

February 22, 2017

Read a study following the course of illness in women with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa to investigate both early and long-term recovery rates.
Kamryn T. Eddy, Nassim Tabri, Jennifer J. Thomas, et al
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Original Research

February 22, 2017

When your patients say they can fall asleep at the drop of a hat, should you dig deeper into their mental health issues? These study results may change how…
Chad M. Ruoff, Nancy L. Reaven, Susan E. Funk, et al
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Original Research

February 22, 2017

Does continued nicotine dependence have an impact on long term outcomes of substance use treatment or abstinence? Read this article to learn if smoking may be associated with relapse…
Andrea H. Weinberger, Jonathan Platt, Hannah Esan, et al
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Original Research

February 22, 2017

Are you concerned that high-dose citalopram or escitalopram may increase your patient’s risk of having an arrhythmia-related death? This analysis of 54,000 patients illustrates the cardiac risk of these…
Wayne A. Ray, Cecilia P. Chung, Katherine T. Murray, et al

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