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Academic Highlights

1391 Challenges and Solutions in Developing New Medications for Schizophrenia

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Using New Antipsychotics in Your Clinical Practice [Keyword: new antipsychotics]

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Original Articles

1259 Antidepressants and Body Weight: A Comprehensive Review and Meta-Analysis [CME]

Alessandro Serretti and Laura Mandelli

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1273 Use of Clinical Markers to Identify Metabolic Syndrome in Antipsychotic-Treated Patients [CME]

Hua Jin, Jonathan Meyer, Sunder Mudaliar, Robert Henry, Srikrishna Khandrika, Danielle K. Glorioso, Helena Kraemer, and Dilip Jeste

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1279 Characteristics of the Retrospectively Assessed Prodromal Period in Hospitalized Patients With First-Episode Nonaffective Psychosis: Findings From a Socially Disadvantaged, Low-Income, Predominantly African American Population

Michael T. Compton, Sandra M. Goulding, and Elaine F. Walker

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1286 The Effect of Metformin on Anthropometrics and Insulin Resistance in Patients Receiving Atypical Antipsychotic Agents: A Meta-Analysis

Megan Ehret, John Goethe, Michael Lanosa, and Craig I. Coleman

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1293 Suicidality as Rare Adverse Event of Antidepressant Medication: Report From the AMSP Multicenter Drug Safety Surveillance Project

Susanne Stübner, Renate Grohmann, Irmela von Stralendorff, Eckart Rüther, Hans-Jürgen Möller, Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen, Rolf R. Engel, Andreas Horvath, and Waldemar Greil

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1308 Patient Overcrowding in Hospital Wards as a Predictor of Diagnosis-Specific Mental Disorders Among Staff: A 2-Year Prospective Cohort Study

Marianna Virtanen, G. David Batty, Jaana Pentti, Jussi Vahtera, Tuula Oksanen, Katinka Tuisku, Paula Salo, Kirsi Terho, Kirsi Ahola, Marko Elovainio, and Mika Kivimäki

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1313 Assertive Community Treatment as Part of Integrated Care Versus Standard Care: A 12-Month Trial in Patients With First- and Multiple-Episode Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Treated With Quetiapine Immediate Release (ACCESS Trial)

Martin Lambert, Thomas Bock, Daniel Schöttle, Dietmar Golks, Klara Meister, Liz Rietschel, Alexandra Bussopulos, Marietta Frieling, Michael Schödlbauer, Marc Burlon, Christian G. Huber, Gunda Ohm, Manoshi Pakrasi, Michael Sadre Chirazi-Stark, Dieter Naber, and Benno G. Schimmelmann

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1324 Is Trauma a Causal Agent of Psychopathologic Symptoms in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? Findings From Identical Twins Discordant for Combat Exposure

Mark W. Gilbertson, Alexander C. McFarlane, Frank W. Weathers, Terence M. Keane, Rachel Yehuda, Arieh Y. Shalev, Natasha B. Lasko, Jared M. Goetz, and Roger K. Pitman, for the Harvard/VA PTSD Twin Study Investigators

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1331 Risk Predictors for Hypnosedative-Related Complex Sleep Behaviors: A Retrospective, Cross-Sectional Pilot Study

Tzung-Jeng Hwang, Hsing-Chang Ni, Hsi-Chung Chen, Yi-Ting Lin, and Shih-Cheng Liao

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1336 A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Olanzapine in the Treatment of Trichotillomania

Michael Van Ameringen, Catherine Mancini, Beth Patterson, Mark Bennett, and Jonathan Oakman

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1344 Comorbid Anxiety in Children and Adolescents With Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: Prevalence and Clinical Correlates

Regina Sala, David A. Axelson, Josefina Castro-Fornieles, Tina R. Goldstein, Wonho Ha, Fangzi Liao, Mary Kay Gill, Satish Iyengar, Michael A. Strober, Benjamin I. Goldstein, Shirley Yen, Heather Hower, Jeffrey Hunt, Neal D. Ryan, Daniel Dickstein, Martin B. Keller, and Boris Birmaher

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1351 Pregnenolone and Dehydroepiandrosterone as an Adjunctive Treatment in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder: An 8-Week, Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled, 2-Center, Parallel-Group Trial

Michael S. Ritsner, Anatoly Gibel, Tatyana Shleifer, Igor Boguslavsky, Ahmad Zayed, Rachel Maayan, Abraham Weizman, and Vladimir Lerner

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1363 Adjunctive Armodafinil for Major Depressive Episodes Associated With Bipolar I Disorder: A Randomized, Multicenter, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Proof-of-Concept Study

Joseph R. Calabrese, Terence A. Ketter, James M. Youakim, Jane M. Tiller, Ronghua Yang, and Mark A. Frye

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1371 Long-Acting Injectable Versus Oral Naltrexone Maintenance Therapy With Psychosocial Intervention for Heroin Dependence: A Quasi-Experiment

Adam C. Brooks, Sandra D. Comer, Maria A. Sullivan, Adam Bisaga, Kenneth M. Carpenter, Wilfrid M. Raby, Elmer Yu, Charles P. O’Brien, and Edward V. Nunes

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Focus on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders

1379 Persistent Depressive Symptoms and Cognitive Function in Late Midlife: The Whitehall II Study

Archana Singh-Manoux, Tasnime N. Akbaraly, Michael Marmot, Maria Melchior, Joël Ankri, Séverine Sabia, and Jane E. Ferrie

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1386 Abnormal Integrity of Long Association Fiber Tracts Is Associated With Cognitive Deficits in Patients With Remitted Geriatric Depression: A Cross-Sectional, Case-Control Study

Yonggui Yuan, Zhenghua Hou, Zhijun Zhang, Feng Bai, Hui Yu, Jiayong You, Yongmei Shi, Wen Liu, and Tianzi Jiang

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Letters To the Editor

1400 A Case of Mirtazapine-Associated Hair Loss

Chieh-Hsin Lin, Chao-Wen Hsu, Ching-Hua Lin, and Hsien-Yuan Lane

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1401 Suicide and Attempted Suicide in Tourette’s Syndrome: A Case Series With Literature Review

Guadalupe Dávila, Marcelo L. Berthier, Jaime Kulisevsky, and Salud Jurado Chacón

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1402 Homicide and Dementia in Older Adults: The Key Role of Dysexecutive Function

Stéphane Richard-Devantoy, Thierry Gallarda, Cédric Annweiler, Jean-Michel Dorey, Cosmin Mesu, Jean-Bernard Garré, Didier Le Gall, and Olivier Beauchet

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Book Reviews

1404 Handbook of Psychiatric Drug Therapy: A Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Handbook, 6th ed.

David L. Dunner

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1404 Clinical Manual of Prevention in Mental Health

Carl C. Bell

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1405 Introduction to Neuropsychopharmacology

Ross J. Baldessarini

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online CME Activities

Posted at www.psychiatrist.com/toc—many in interactive formats

e26 Individualizing Treatment for Patients With Schizoaffective Disorder

Eduard Vieta

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e27 Nosology, Diagnostic Challenges, and Unmet Needs in Bipolar Disorder

Terence A. Ketter

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e28 The Role of Neurobiologic Processes in Treating Depression

Michael E. Thase

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information for authors

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