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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

September 28, 2016

Current ways of measuring adherence to medication are largely subjective and tend to underestimate nonadherence.  Read this article to learn about the development of a digital medicine system with…
Deborah Profit, Shashank Rohatagi, Cathy Zhao, et al
JCP
Letter to the Editor

September 28, 2016

Chia-Hung Kao
JCP
Letter to the Editor

September 28, 2016

Andrea E. Spencer, Joseph Biederman
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Meta-Analysis

September 28, 2016

When acute mania patients don’ t respond to antipsychotic treatment after 1 or 2 weeks, how should you proceed? Welten and colleagues report findings from their analysis of short-term…
Carlijn C. M. Welten, Maarten W. J. Koeter, Tamar D. Wohlfarth, et al
JCP
Original Research

September 28, 2016

Many factors are weighed when determining whether to admit a person to a psychiatric hospital, but researchers have yet to fully explore one factor that may prove very useful…
Maria Chiu, Michael Lebenbaum, Alice M. Newman, et al
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Original Research

September 28, 2016

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, shows promise in treating major depression, but the neurobiological mechanisms underlying its antidepressant effect remain unclear. The authors of this…
Jee In Kang, Hyeongrae Lee, Kyungun Jhung, et al
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Original Research

September 28, 2016

If one of your female patients has ADHD and is taking methylphenidate, will her fetus be affected if she continues the medication throughout her pregnancy? View the results from…
Orna Diav-Citrin, Svetlana Shechtman, Judy Arnon, et al
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Original Research

September 28, 2016

It is estimated that 40%-50% of patients with serious mental illness are nonadherent to medication, and nonadherence can be difficult to accurately detect. This article outlines the methodology and…
Shashank Rohatagi, Deborah Profit, Ainslie Hatch, et al
JCP
Letter to the Editor

September 28, 2016

Is the severity of symptoms in schizophrenia greater for patients who have a parent with the illness? Learn more in this study.
Elena Canga, Marissa Puerto, Laura Ortega, et al
JCP
Original Research

September 28, 2016

Suicide and pollen levels have been linked in some prior research, yet no studies have actually examined the relationship between pollen levels and non-fatal self-directed violence. For the first…
Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter, Cynthia A. Claassen, David A. Khan, et al
JCP
Letter to the Editor

September 28, 2016

Opioid-dependent patients and those undergoing opioid substitution therapy (OST) have been reported to also abuse pregabalin, creating a combination that can lead to death. These physicians, in an attempt…
Jochen Mutschler, Salome Gastberger, Markus R. Baumgartner, et al
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Original Research

September 28, 2016

Medication nonadherence among schizophrenia patients is common, but also possibly modifiable. Learn about how a patient self-report instrument—the MARS—can be used to identify nonadherence in these patients.
David Misdrahi, Arnaud Tessier, Joel Swendsen, et al

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