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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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Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology

August 24, 2016

Patients with schizophrenia have increased rates of many cardiometabolic risk factors.  In the second in a 2-part series, Chittaranjan Andrade, MD, looks at the impact of nonpharmacological interventions, such…
Chittaranjan Andrade
JCP
Original Research

August 24, 2016

Use of synthetic cannabinoids is a recent and dangerous trend. What characterizes people who use these substances? Shalit et al compare users of cannabis vs synthetic cannabinoids in a…
Nadav Shalit, Ran Barzilay, Gal Shoval, et al
JCP
Original Research

August 24, 2016

Read an article exploring further evidence of the cohort effect for earlier age at onset of bipolar disorder and greater burden of psychiatric disorders.
Robert M. Post, Ralph Kupka, Paul E. Keck Jr, et al
JCP
Original Research

August 24, 2016

Course and Predictors of Postdeployment Fatigue
Jan F. Wiborg, Arthur R. Rademaker, Elbert Geuze, et al
JCP
Letter to the Editor

August 24, 2016

Kelly L. Green, Gregory K. Brown, Shari Jager-Hyman
JCP
Letter to the Editor

August 24, 2016

Graham Mazereeuw, Krista L. Lanctôt, Nathan Herrmann
JCP
Original Research

August 24, 2016

How do you know when results from a clinical trial are applicable to your patient? Using data derived from NESARC, researchers examine whether results from pharmacologic and psychotherapy clinical…
Silvia Franco, Nicolas Hoertel, Kibby McMahon, et al
JCP
Commentary

August 24, 2016

Does the role of BDNF in schizophrenia have a genetic origin? This commentary by Notaras and colleagues discusses the article "BDNF Polymorphisms Are Associated With Cognitive Performance in Schizophrenia…
Michael Notaras, Rachel A. Hill, Maarten van den Buuse
JCP
Original Research

August 24, 2016

Aging is usually associated with declines in physical and cognitive function, but researchers have paid surprisingly little attention to changes in mental health. A study by Thomas and colleagues…
Michael L. Thomas, Christopher N. Kaufmann, Barton W. Palmer, et al
JCP
Letter to the Editor

August 24, 2016

Joshua T. Kantrowitz, Batsheva Halberstam, James Gangwisch
JCP
Letter to the Editor

August 24, 2016

In June, The JCP published an article by Dr Joshua Kantrowitz and colleagues entitled “Single-dose ketamine followed by daily D-cycloserine in treatment-resistant bipolar depression.” In this Letter to the…
Suck Won Kim, Matt G. Kushner, Gihyun Yoon, et al
JCP
Original Research

August 24, 2016

Is your patient fully recovered from a major depressive episode? For some time the standard definition of MDE recovery has been eight weeks without significant symptoms. Discover the new…
Lewis L. Judd, Pamela J. Schettler, A. John Rush, et al

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