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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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Article

October 26, 2016

Controlling your patients’ craving for heroin is essential to preventing relapse. Read this article to see how the default mode network may reveal the mechanism of heroin addiction.
Qiang Li, Zhe Li, Wei Li, et al
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Original Research

October 26, 2016

When psychiatrists officially warn patients with serious mental illness that they should not drive, do the patients listen? This study looked into rates of repeat accidents and psychiatric hospitalization…
Andrew J. Lustig, Paul A. Kurdyak, Deva Thiruchelvam, et al
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Original Research

October 26, 2016

Late-onset frontal lobe syndrome may lead you on the wrong path when diagnosing your patients. Read this article to see how specific subtyping of clinical symptoms can help you…
Annemiek Dols, Saskia van Liempt, Flora Gossink, et al
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Review Article

October 26, 2016

Does direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing of pharmaceuticals influence physician behaviors? Becker and Midoun review the existing literature to analyze the effects of DTC advertising on patient requests for medication or…
Sara J. Becker, Miriam M. Midoun
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Letter to the Editor

October 26, 2016

Cynthia O. Siu, Ofer Agid
JCP
Article

October 26, 2016

Read a study shedding light on Nicotine Use Disorder, the prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity, and treatments for the disorder.
S. Patricia Chou, Risë B. Goldstein, Sharon M. Smith, et al
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Article

October 26, 2016

When your patients with schizophrenia insufficiently respond to antipsychotic treatment, do you increase the dose? Do you check their plasma drug concentration? Read this CME article to find out…
Hitoshi Sakurai, Takefumi Suzuki, Robert R. Bies, et al
JCP
Letter to the Editor

October 26, 2016

Joshua T. Kantrowitz, Alice Medalia, Richard S. E. Keefe, et al
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Original Research

October 26, 2016

Lurasidone’s favorable safety profile in younger adults suggests it would be a good candidate for the treatment of episodes of bipolar depression in older adults. For your patients 55…
Martha Sajatovic, Brent P. Forester, Joyce Tsai, et al
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Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology

October 26, 2016

Children and adolescents treated with antipsychotics are at increased risk of weight gain and metabolic dysregulation. In this month’s Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology column, Chittaranjan Andrade looks at the…
Chittaranjan Andrade
JCP
Article

October 26, 2016

While neuropsychiatric toxicity in methamphetamine use is extensively documented, long-term follow-up data regarding the association between the drug and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications are scarce. In this study, Dr…
Ming-Chyi Huang, Shu-Yu Yang, Shih-Ku Lin, et al
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Original Research

October 26, 2016

As many as a third of adult OCD patients have a tic disorder. This study compared clinical profiles between tic-related and tic-free OCD patients, and explored the influence of…
Froukje E. de Vries, Danielle C. Cath, Adriaan W. Hoogendoorn, et al

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