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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
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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

February 20, 2018

People at risk of Alzheimer’s disease often have higher functional connectivity in several brain networks. Does this functional connectivity change over time—and is there a pattern of change specific…
Qing Ye, Haifeng Chen, Fan Su, et al
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Original Research

February 13, 2018

Because recent research supports the effectiveness of antipsychotics in nonresponsive major depressive disorder, examining national prescribing trends for these drugs in MDD is a timely topic. Using data from…
Taeho Greg Rhee, Somaia Mohamed, Robert A. Rosenheck
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Original Research

February 13, 2018

Adventurous and explosive temperament profiles have been associated with antisocial and borderline personality disorders. This analysis of over 2,000 participants in the Young Finns study looks at whether these…
Aino I. L. Saarinen, Tom H. Rosenström, Christian A. Hakulinen, et al
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Original Research

February 6, 2018

Clinicians often have little direction regarding optimal treatment options for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Read this article to learn the relative effectiveness of 7 strategies for treating OCD.
Sean T. Gregory, Brian Kay, Joseph Smith, et al
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ASCP Corner

January 30, 2018

Read an article describing depression with mixed features in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and the treatment of patients who meet the criteria.
Michael J. Ostacher, Trisha Suppes
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Educational Activity

January 25, 2018

A series of 6 brief educational videos featuring expert insight and comments by actual patients and their family members helps people understand the risk factors for TD, recognize the…
Joseph P. McEvoy, Andrew A. Nierenberg
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Clinical and Practical Psychopharmacology

January 23, 2018

How safe is it for pregnant women to use ADHD medication? Dr Andrade reviews recent studies on methylphenidate and amphetamine use during pregnancy to evaluate the findings and weigh…
Chittaranjan Andrade
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Original Research

January 23, 2018

The Maudsley Staging Method has been validated as a way to quantify and predict depression course and outcome, but its generalizability to a community-based population had not yet been…
Sjoerd M. van Belkum, Hanneke Geugies, Thom S. Lysen, et al
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Academic Highlights

January 23, 2018

Insomnia is often considered a symptom of psychiatric disorders when it actually needs to be addressed as a separate disorder. Read this CME Academic Highlights in which experts discuss…
Ruth M. Benca, Daniel J. Buysse
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Original Research

January 16, 2018

Early behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is often mistaken for major depressive disorder. Could patients’ processing of facial emotions provide clues to differentiate the two? In this study, patients…
Isabelle Chiu, Olivier Piguet, Janine Diehl-Schmid, et al
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Original Research

January 9, 2018

The self-report Concise Associated Symptoms Tracking Scale (CAST-SR) was designed to track symptoms such as mania and anxiety in depressed outpatients being treated with antidepressants. This study used data…
Joseph M. Trombello, Michael O. Killian, Allen Liao, et al
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Original Research

January 9, 2018

Little is known about restless legs syndrome in pediatric populations. A survey of 11,831 adolescents that probed symptoms of restless legs syndrome, as well as sleep duration, sleep problems,…
Xianchen Liu, Hua Chen, Zhen-Zhen Liu, et al

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