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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
PCC
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
PCC
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
PCC
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
PCC
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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Emerging Treatments in Schizophrenia
InfoPacks

February 15, 2022

Experts discuss the brain circuits involved in schizophrenia, the current medications, and new agents in phase 3 trials that do not directly block postsynaptic D2 receptors. Phase 2 data…
Christoph U. Correll, Anissa Abi-Dargham, Oliver Howes
JCP
Mental Health Outcomes in an Area With a Higher vs Lower COVID-19 Incidence
Original Research

February 8, 2022

This comparison of subjects from 2 areas of Italy investigated whether living in an area with a greater rate of COVID-19 infection impacted outcomes in patients with anxiety and…
Claudia Carmassi, Liliana Dell’Osso, Carlo Antonio Bertelloni, et al
JCP
Prospective Memory Influences Social Functioning in First-Episode Schizophrenia
Original Research

February 8, 2022

Prospective memory, or the ability to carry out an intended action in the future, is linked to social functioning in schizophrenia and is an important intervention target. This network…
Simon S. Y. Lui, Rui-Ting Zhang, Wilson Y. S. Lau, et al
JCP
Psychological Pain Correlates in Suicide
Original Research

February 8, 2022

Psychological pain is a predictor of suicidal events in patients with mood disorders, but less is known about the characteristics that predict high psychological pain. The aim of this…
Adrián Alacreu-Crespo, Sebastien Guillaume, Stephane Richard-Devantoy, et al
JCP
Methylphenidate and Other Treatments for Apathy in Alzheimer’s Disease
Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology

February 1, 2022

Dr Andrade takes a closer look at a recent RCT suggesting that psychostimulants are effective against apathy in Alzheimer’s disease.
Chittaranjan Andrade
JCP
Conflating Capacity and Compliance
Letter to the Editor

February 1, 2022

Commenting on a recent JCP editorial, the authors discuss decision-making capacity as it relates to COVID-19 vaccine refusal.
Charles G. Kels, Lori H. Kels
JCP
Depression Symptom Severity and Cost
Original Research

February 1, 2022

Cost studies of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) do not often consider levels of symptoms experienced by patients. This study examined whether including depression symptom severity measures could improve understanding of…
Frances L. Lynch, John F. Dickerson, Maureen O’Keeffe-Rosetti, et al
JCP
Recognizing Impaired Decisional Capacity in Vaccine Refusal: Reply to Kels and Kels
Letter to the Editor

February 1, 2022

The authors reply to a letter commenting on Dr Goldberg’s JCP editorial examining COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
Joseph F. Goldberg, Jacob M. Appel
JCP
Original Research

February 1, 2022

Therapeutic options for treatment-resistant bipolar depression (TRBD) are limited. Since insulin resistance (IR) increases risk of TRBD, this study examined if the insulin sensitizer metformin reversed IR and improved…
Cynthia V. Calkin, K. N. Roy Chengappa, Kathleen Cairns, et al
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Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology

January 25, 2022

A large new study of youth aged 9–15 years with a history of gestational exposure to antidepressants revealed slightly poorer performance in mathematics, but not in language. Dr Andrade…
Chittaranjan Andrade
JCP
Original Research

January 25, 2022

Existing measures of irritability rarely distinguish phasic and tonic forms. This article reports on the psychometric properties of the Emotional Outburst Inventory (EMO-I) as a brief screening tool for…
Gabrielle A. Carlson, Jamilah Silver, Daniel N. Klein
JCP
Original Research

January 18, 2022

The impact of biological rhythms on mood or anxiety during the peripartum period is largely unknown. This study examined changes in sleep and biological rhythms, melatonin levels, and light…
Anastasiya Slyepchenko, Luciano Minuzzi, James P. Reilly, et al

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