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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

May 29, 2018

Treatment-resistant depression (TRD), broadly defined, is depression not in remission after treatment. About a third of depressed patients lack response to at least one adequate treatment. But how can…
Frederikke Hordam Gronemann, Martin B. Jorgensen, Merete Nordentoft, et al
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Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology

May 29, 2018

Despite the large body of literature documenting poor outcomes after gestational exposure to valproate, it continues to be prescribed to women of childbearing potential. This Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology…
Chittaranjan Andrade
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Original Research

May 23, 2018

Understanding suicide among military personnel includes identifying risks that are present at enlistment, before exposure to military stressors. This study used survey data from 38,237 soldiers to characterize the…
Murray B. Stein, Laura Campbell-Sills, Robert J. Ursano, et al
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Original Research

May 23, 2018

Hoarding is common in the elderly and is often coupled with physical and medical problems in this population. Read this article to see if Cognitive Rehabilitation and Exposure/Sorting Therapy…
Catherine R. Ayers, Mary E. Dozier, Elizabeth W. Twamley, et al
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Original Research

May 22, 2018

How do mental health clinicians define their role in treating decisionally capable patients with advanced medical illness who wish to die? Read this narrative review to learn about different…
Joel Yager, Linda Ganzini, Dan H. Nguyen, et al
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Original Research

May 22, 2018

Finding effective treatment for depressed patients who do not adequately respond to antidepressant medications is a frequent challenge for clinicians. Read this article to learn about the efficacy, safety,…
Mary Hobart, Aleksandar Skuban, Peter Zhang, et al
JCP
Letter to the Editor

May 22, 2018

Item 9 of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is a robust predictor of suicide attempt and suicide death. However, it still has a substantial false-negative rate. This study of…
Evette J. Ludman, Gregory E. Simon, Ursula Whiteside, et al
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Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology

May 22, 2018

Older age, poor sleep, and the use of the "Z" sedative hypnotic drugs (eg, zolpidem) commonly go together. In this Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology article, Dr Andrade discusses the…
Chittaranjan Andrade
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Original Research

May 15, 2018

The use of antidepressants in the treatment of bipolar disorder can lead to antidepressant-induced mania (AIM)—but not in every case. This article explores the risk factors that might increase…
Aislinn J. Williams, Zongshan Lai, Seth Knight, et al
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Meta-Analysis

May 15, 2018

If an antidepressant doesn’ t seem to be working, what is your next move? This meta-analysis compares efficacy and tolerability of increasing antidepressant dose versus continuing the initial dose….
Lena Rink, Cora Braun, Tom Bschor, et al
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Original Research

May 15, 2018

The currently available dopamine-blocking antipsychotics haven’ t been of much help with cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. This post hoc analysis of an RCT examines whether MIN-101, which combines sigma-2…
Richard S. E. Keefe, Philip D. Harvey, Anzalee Khan, et al
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Original Research

May 8, 2018

Read a full report on the clinical features of Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) auditory hallucinations and the possible mechanisms they arise in patients.
Naoko Tsunoda, Mamoru Hashimoto, Tomohisa Ishikawa, et al

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