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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Cross-Cutting Symptom Domains Predict Functioning in Psychotic Disorders

Read this study to learn how both psychotic and nonpsychotic symptom domains predict functioning and disability across psychotic disorders.

Julia M. Longenecker & more

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Organic Psychosis Causing Secondary Schizophrenia in One-Fourth of a Cohort of 200 Patients Previously Diagnosed With Primary Schizophrenia

Patients with psychosis are too often diagnosed with primary schizophrenia when the psychotic symptoms may actually be the manifestation of neurologic, endocrine, or immunologic disease. Learn about alternate diagnoses in this CME journal article.

João Gama Marques

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY

Identifying Tardive Dyskinesia: Risk Factors, Functional Impact, and Diagnostic Tools

Tardive dyskinesia must be detected early to minimize the risk of permanence. Do you know how often to screen patients and how to conduct an evaluation? Dr Stephen Saklad provides a refresher in this brief CME activity.

Stephen R. Saklad

REVIEW ARTICLE

Hypertensive Urgency and Emergency in Alcohol Withdrawal: A Literature Review

Data are lacking on how best to manage hypertension in patients experiencing alcohol withdrawal. Dr Bojdani and colleagues offer strategies for addressing hypertension in patients detoxifying from alcohol.

Ermal Bojdani & more

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Toward an Empirically Based Developmental Trauma Disorder Diagnosis for Children: Factor Structure, Item Characteristics, Reliability, and Validity of the Developmental Trauma Disorder Semi-Structured Interview

Children who have experienced victimization such as maltreatment or violence are at risk for problems that include, but extend beyond, PTSD. To guide assessment and treatment of these youth, the authors of this article propose criteria for a developmental trauma disorder diagnosis and evaluate the psychometrics of a new scale, the DTD-SI.

Julian D. Ford & more

CME ARTICLE

An Examination of Screening Tools for Collaborative Care of Adolescent Depression

Could collaborative care be especially beneficial in certain youth with depression? Researchers enrolled patients in a collaborative care treatment model and then looked at program graduation rates in light of baseline scores on depression, anxiety, and substance use assessments. Read this CME selection and see if they were able to identify predictors of remission.

Alexander D. Ginsburg & more

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

The Diagnostic Challenge of the Late-Onset Frontal Lobe Syndrome: Clinical Predictors for Primary Psychiatric Disorders Versus Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia

Symptoms of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia can be identical to those of psychiatric disorders such as major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. How can you tell the difference? This study looked at clinical predictors that differentiate patients with bvFTD from patients with primary psychiatric diagnoses.

Everard G. B. Vijverberg & more

FOCUS ON SUICIDE

Assessment of Suicidal Ideation and Behavior: Report of the International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology Consensus Meeting

Industry experts gathered to develop guidance for standardized data collection and analysis of suicidal ideation and to guide the development of novel treatments in an effort to rectify the underrecognition and undertreatment of suicidal behavior and ideation. This article delineates their recommendations.

Phillip B. Chappell & more

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Longitudinal Predictive Validity of the DSM-5 Anxious Distress Specifier for Clinical Outcomes in a Large Cohort of Patients With Major Depressive Disorder

DSM-5 includes a new tool for assessing anxiety in depression. Read this article to find out how the anxious distress specifier performs as a predictor of major depressive disorder outcome.

Roxanne Gaspersz & more

META-ANALYSES

Neuropsychological Test Performance to Enhance Identification of Subjects at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis and to Be Most Promising for Predictive Algorithms for Conversion to Psychosis: A Meta-Analysis

Is your patient showing signs of what might be an early phase of prepsychotic illness? Read this meta-analysis for information on how specific cognitive impairments hold promise for predicting future development of psychosis.

Marta Hauser & more

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Greater Than "Even Greater" Need?

This letter to the editor by John H. Greist, MD, reflects on the commentary "Using Standardized Methods to Assess Suicidal Behavior: The Need Is Even Greater Than It Looks" by Eric A. Youngstrom, PhD.

John H. Greist

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Psychometric Reevaluation of the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale: Findings From a Prospective, Inpatient Cohort of Severely Mentally Ill Adults

Read the full article about a study aiming to reevaluate the Suicide Severity Rating Scale, to ultimately help accurately predict suicidal ideation in patients.

Alok Madan & more

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Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelics in the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, Part 1: Psychopharmacology and Neurobiological Effects

In addition to altering one’s perception of reality, psychedelics may be useful for trea...

Avinash Hosanagar & more

JCP JOURNAL-BASED CME - ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Pharmacotherapy for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Retention in Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment: A Retrospective Cohort Study

How does comorbid attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affect individuals with ...

Kristopher A. Kast & more

ASCP CORNER

Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelics in Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, Part 2: Review of the Evidence

Could psychedelics such as psilocybin and LSD be useful in treating MDD or other psychiatr...

Avinash Hosanagar & more

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