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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
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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

October 23, 2018

Although benzodiazepines can provide short-term relief for anxiety, their potential to worsen depression and suicidal thoughts potentially recommends against their use in patients with PTSD. Read this article to…
Rishi Deka, Craig J. Bryan, Joanne LaFleur, et al
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Original Research

October 16, 2018

Benzodiazepines are used widely for anxiety and insomnia, but what proportion of users are misusing them? This analysis of National Surveys on Drug Use and Health data considers correlates…
Carlos Blanco, Beth Han, Christopher M. Jones, et al
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Original Research

October 16, 2018

The consequences of neurologic injury in early childhood can be profound and long-lasting. This analysis of data from a Taiwanese national insurance database examines the association between TBI in…
Hsuan-Kan Chang, Ju-Wei Hsu, Jau-Ching Wu, et al
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Original Research

October 9, 2018

Psychiatric disorders often co-occur, and comorbidity patterns as well as suicide risk vary across the lifespan. Read this article to learn if suicide attempt risk in older and younger…
Rachel Pascal de Raykeer, Nicolas Hoertel, Carlos Blanco, et al
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Original Research

October 9, 2018

In the search for a cause of obsessive-compulsive disorder, 2 theories have predominated: increased activity in the orbitofrontal cortex and low activity in the serotonergic system. Using fMRI and…
Paraskevi Mavrogiorgou, Björn Enzi, Saskia Steinmann, et al
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Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology

October 2, 2018

Pregabalin is used for many indications across the world, including pain syndromes and generalized anxiety disorder. If a woman receiving pregabalin discovers she is pregnant or wishes to become…
Chittaranjan Andrade
JCP
Original Research

October 2, 2018

Tobacco has known associations with psychosis, but less is known about the relationship between tobacco use and subclinical psychotic-like experiences (PLEs). This study sought to disentangle the association of…
Jasmina Mallet, Nicolas Mazer, Caroline Dubertret, et al
JCP
Original Research

October 2, 2018

People who have received inpatient psychiatric care are at greater risk of dying an unnatural death. This study, which drew on data from persons born in Denmark from 1967-1996,…
Florian Walter, Matthew J. Carr, Pearl L. H. Mok, et al
JCP
Original Research

September 25, 2018

Once a patient is discharged after a suicide attempt, what can be done to prevent another attempt? This study evaluated a suicide prevention strategy algorithm versus treatment as usual…
Guillaume Vaiva, Sofian Berrouiguet, Michel Walter, et al
JCP
Original Research

September 25, 2018

Treatment nonadherence is bipolar disorder ranges from 20% to 60%. Read this article to learn how customized adherence enhancement (CAE)—a brief, bipolar disorder-specific approach that targets individual adherence barriers—compared…
Martha Sajatovic, Curtis Tatsuoka, Kristin A. Cassidy, et al
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Original Research

September 25, 2018

Polypharmacy has been shown to be associated with dementia, though its relationship to mild cognitive impairment (MCI), often a precursor to dementia, has received less study. Read this article…
Chih-Ming Cheng, Wen-Han Chang, Yu-Chuan Chiu, et al
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Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology

September 25, 2018

Two recent meta-analyses examined an intriguing possibility: the usefulness of statins as antipsychotic augmentation. In this installment of Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology, Dr Andrade takes a critical look at…
Chittaranjan Andrade

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