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October 26, 2016

Characterizing the role of inflammation in depression is an important part of identifying potential targets for intervention. Zheng and colleagues assessed plasma dipeptidyl peptidase-4 activity, inflammatory markers, and neuropeptide...
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October 26, 2016

Use of psychiatric emergency departments in the United States has risen substantially in recent decades. Read this article to see how well a clinical tool performed in triaging emergency...
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October 26, 2016

When psychiatrists officially warn patients with serious mental illness that they should not drive, do the patients listen? This study looked into rates of repeat accidents and psychiatric hospitalization...
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October 26, 2016

Late-onset frontal lobe syndrome may lead you on the wrong path when diagnosing your patients. Read this article to see how specific subtyping of clinical symptoms can help you...
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October 26, 2016

Lurasidone's favorable safety profile in younger adults suggests it would be a good candidate for the treatment of episodes of bipolar depression in older adults. For your patients 55...
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October 26, 2016

As many as a third of adult OCD patients have a tic disorder. This study compared clinical profiles between tic-related and tic-free OCD patients, and explored the influence of...
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October 26, 2016

Neurofeedback has been proposed as a promising intervention for ADHD. In this RCT, Geladé and colleagues compare it with methylphenidate and with physical activity for effects on ADHD symptoms...
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October 26, 2016

Read a study comparing oral antipsychotics with paliperidone palmitate in a veteran population to evaluate health care resource utilization with each type of schizophrenia treatment.
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October 26, 2016

What makes some patients more adherent to psychiatric treatment than others? Discover how their beliefs about who or what controls their medications influences their likelihood for adhering to treatment...
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October 26, 2016

Despite substantial criticism, polygraphy remains the only biological method of lie detection in use today. How does its accuracy compare of that of functional MRI? Read this article by...
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October 26, 2016

Is your citalopram-treated patient at risk for suicidal ideation? Read this STAR*D article to discover factors associated with emergence or worsening of suicidal ideation. 
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October 26, 2016

Asian Americans have among the lowest rates of mental health service utilization of any racial/ethnic group in the United States, and research has identified stigma as an underlying reason...
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October 26, 2016

Pharmacotherapy is widely available for patients with MDD, but as many as 40% have a delayed response or fail to respond to treatment. In this RCT, see how the...
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October 26, 2016

Since 2008, significant changes in federal policies have been designed to increase access to mental health treatment. Have these changes been effective in influencing treatment-seeking patterns? Han and colleagues...
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October 25, 2016

The "C" word is frightening to patients with serious mental illness as much as to anyone, but whether these patients' survival is equal to those without an SMI is...
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September 28, 2016

SSRIs, as well as depression itself, have been associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. To discover more about this link, Noordam et al looked at the...
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September 28, 2016

What can you do when chronic pain is a problem for your trauma patients for whom opioids may lead to a substance use disorder? This study investigates whether buprenorphine,...
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September 28, 2016

Current ways of measuring adherence to medication are largely subjective and tend to underestimate nonadherence.  Read this article to learn about the development of a digital medicine system with...
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September 28, 2016

Many factors are weighed when determining whether to admit a person to a psychiatric hospital, but researchers have yet to fully explore one factor that may prove very useful...
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September 28, 2016

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, shows promise in treating major depression, but the neurobiological mechanisms underlying its antidepressant effect remain unclear. The authors of this...
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September 28, 2016

If one of your female patients has ADHD and is taking methylphenidate, will her fetus be affected if she continues the medication throughout her pregnancy? View the results from...
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September 28, 2016

It is estimated that 40%-50% of patients with serious mental illness are nonadherent to medication, and nonadherence can be difficult to accurately detect. This article outlines the methodology and...
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September 28, 2016

Suicide and pollen levels have been linked in some prior research, yet no studies have actually examined the relationship between pollen levels and non-fatal self-directed violence. For the first...
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September 28, 2016

Medication nonadherence among schizophrenia patients is common, but also possibly modifiable. Learn about how a patient self-report instrument—the MARS—can be used to identify nonadherence in these patients.
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