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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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Original Research

December 28, 2016

Understand the association between depression and levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO).
M. Soledad Cepeda, Paul Stang, Rupa Makadia
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Letter to the Editor

December 28, 2016

Ido Lurie, Yu-Xiao Yang, Kevin Haynes, et al
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Original Research

December 28, 2016

Cognitive difficulties may be overlooked in treating patients with bipolar or unipolar depression, but 20% of patients report such symptoms. The authors of this article reanalyzed data from 2…
Kamilla Woznica Miskowiak, A. John Rush, Jr, Thomas A. Gerds, et al
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Original Research

December 28, 2016

Carlos Blanco, Melanie M. Wall, Martin A. Lindquist, et al
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Commentary

December 28, 2016

This commentary by Mark Zimmerman, MD, discusses the article “Generalizability of Neuroimaging Studies in 5 Common Psychiatric Disorders Based on the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions…
Mark Zimmerman
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Meta-Analysis

December 28, 2016

In contrast to depression or anxiety disorders where response is defined as a 50% reduction in symptom severity, a 35% reduction in symptoms is considered to be a response…
Zacharias G. Laoutidis, Georgia E. Lekka, Kanellos T. Kioulos
JCP
Article

December 28, 2016

Since older patients are known to be hypersensitive to antipsychotics, are they vulnerable to developing hyperprolactinemia with these drugs? This post hoc study looked at whether the dopamine D2/3…
Yusuke Iwata, Shinichiro Nakajima, Fernando Caravaggio, et al
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Article

December 28, 2016

Psychosis in Alzheimer’s disease is associated with a number of adverse clinical outcomes. This article looks at the onset of psychosis in elderly subjects with mild cognitive impairment or…
Elise A. Weamer, Mary Ann A. DeMichele-Sweet, Yona K. Cloonan, et al
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Article

December 28, 2016

Read 5 articles reflecting on the scientific progress in geriatric psychiatry and addressing several important areas.
Helen Lavretsky
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Article

December 28, 2016

Although studies have suggested an association between anemia and depression in the elderly, prospective research has yet to clarify of the directionality of that association. Read this article to…
Caterina Trevisan, Nicola Veronese, Francesco Bolzetta, et al
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Original Research

December 28, 2016

What’s the next step when a patient doesn’ t respond to an antipsychotic? Should you augment, switch medications, wait and see, or raise the dose? Read this study in…
Antony Loebel, Robert Silva, Robert Goldman, et al
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Article

December 28, 2016

Depression is very common in the elderly, a population often prescribed several treatments simultaneously. Find out how often antidepressants are prescribed and adhered to in this population and how…
Alessandra Marengoni, Graziano Onder, Luca Degli Esposti, et al

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