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Comorbid major depressive disorder and alcohol use disorders, depression in pregnancy, and prescribing psychologists
Release date: 4/1/2013 The importance of metabolic monitoring, working with nurse practitioners
Release date: 2/1/2013 A dismal situation, artwork criticism, and psychiatry
Release date: 1/1/2013 Omega-3 fatty acids for borderline personality disorder, incarceration
of mentally ill patients, and more
Release date: 11/1/2012 Primum non nocere, ketamine for depression
Release date: 10/1/2012 Transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression
Release date: 9/1/2012 Biopsychosocial psychiatry, psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder, and prazosin for PTSD nightmares
Release date: 8/1/2012 Benzodiazepines and addiction, melatonin, and more
Release date: 7/1/2012 Neurostimulation for depression, 'creative destruction' in psychiatry, and more
Release date: 6/1/2012 Suicide and anxiety, TMS for depression, and more on ‘antipsychiatry’
Release date: 5/1/2012 Clonazepam dosing, 'bath salts ' abuse
Release date: 4/1/2012 The antipsychiatry movement, clozapine-induced hypersalivation, and more
Release date: 3/1/2012 Ultra-rapid cycling in bipolar disorder, mood instability in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Dr. Goldberg responds
Release date: 2/1/2012 Concerns about valproate
Release date: 1/1/2012 Domains of excellence
Release date: 1/1/2012 Additional traits
Release date: 1/1/2012 Assessing capacity
Release date: 11/1/2011 Negative symptoms
Release date: 11/1/2011 Delirium and benzodiazepines
Release date: 10/1/2011 T3 in depression
Release date: 9/1/2011 Reserpine for schizophrenia
Release date: 9/1/2011 Treating family members
Release date: 9/1/2011 A complex subject
Release date: 9/1/2011 ‘Progress’ in psychiatry
Release date: 8/1/2011 Missed progress
Release date: 8/1/2011 Focus on change
Release date: 8/1/2011 Managed care woes
Release date: 8/1/2011 Insidious progress
Release date: 8/1/2011 To tell the truth
Release date: 8/1/2011 Nonverbal learning disorder
Release date: 7/1/2011 Efficient pharmacotherapy
Release date: 7/1/2011 Glutamatergic dysfunction
Release date: 7/1/2011 Treating delirium
Release date: 7/1/2011 Hazardous polypharmacy
Release date: 6/1/2011 Ketamine and glutamate
Release date: 6/1/2011 Tx for pseudobulbar affect
Release date: 5/1/2011 More on hyperammonemia
Release date: 5/1/2011 TBI and growth hormone
Release date: 5/1/2011 Overlooked diagnoses
Release date: 4/1/2011 Mood swings and BPD
Release date: 4/1/2011 Mood swings and ODD
Release date: 4/1/2011 Creating new dogma
Release date: 3/1/2011 ‘Primordial’ psychiatry
Release date: 3/1/2011 Praise for social workers
Release date: 3/1/2011 Biofeedback training
Release date: 3/1/2011 Thinking outside of the box
Release date: 3/1/2011 Mental illness and violence
Release date: 3/1/2011 SGAs for delirium?
Release date: 3/1/2011 Slippery slope
Release date: 3/1/2011 Breaking the box
Release date: 2/1/2011 Busting my own myth
Release date: 1/1/2011 ‘Shoebox’ diagnoses
Release date: 1/1/2011 Accepting opposite beliefs
Release date: 1/1/2011 Bupropion for cocaine users
Release date: 12/1/2010 Bupropion controversy
Release date: 12/1/2010 Reconsidering delusions
Release date: 12/1/2010 Improving collaboration
Release date: 11/1/2010 Affording self-respect
Release date: 11/1/2010 Delirium diagnosis
Release date: 11/1/2010 Substance abuse clarifications
Release date: 11/1/2010 Psychiatry’s best hope
Release date: 11/1/2010 Off-label bupropion
Release date: 11/1/2010 Appreciating med checks
Release date: 11/1/2010 Question BPD outcomes
Release date: 10/1/2010 Med check distress
Release date: 10/1/2010 Mainstreaming psychiatry
Release date: 10/1/2010 Following by example
Release date: 10/1/2010 Comments & Controversies
Release date: 9/1/2010 Combining therapies
Release date: 7/1/2010 Propranolol for anxiety
Release date: 7/1/2010 Beta blockers, T3, and T4
Release date: 7/1/2010 Antidepressant complexity
Release date: 7/1/2010 Maximizing ‘med checks’
Release date: 7/1/2010 Comparing medications for alcohol withdrawal
Release date: 7/1/2010 A unifying manifesto
Release date: 6/1/2010 Cutoff points for treatment
Release date: 6/1/2010 Typicals vs atypicals
Release date: 6/1/2010 Aspirin and GI bleeding
Release date: 5/1/2010 Heroin’s toxic effects
Release date: 5/1/2010 Shrinking thick charts
Release date: 4/1/2010 Injustice can lead to treatment
Release date: 3/1/2010 Could diet cause psychosis?
Release date: 3/1/2010 Weighing clozapine’s risks
Release date: 3/1/2010 EBM can obscure realities
Release date: 3/1/2010 Evidence vs experience
Release date: 2/1/2010 Caring and respect can reduce malpractice risk
Release date: 1/1/2010 Consider cost and efficacy
Release date: 1/1/2010 Opioid use could cause mania
Release date: 1/1/2010 Considerations for CAM use
Release date: 12/1/2009 Exploring irony in psychiatry
Release date: 12/1/2009 Single payer is not a solution
Release date: 12/1/2009 Refer more patients for medical evaluations
Click here to read letters about removing DID from DSM-V
Release date: 12/1/2009 What your office says to patients
Release date: 11/1/2009 We treat patients, not clients
Release date: 10/1/2009 There are no ‘clients’ in the doctor-patient relationship
Release date: 10/1/2009 How I really feel
Release date: 10/1/2009 How independent can a CME program be?
Release date: 10/1/2009 Reducing potential for harm
Release date: 9/1/2009 No need to soften criteria
Release date: 9/1/2009 Antipsychotics and bones
Release date: 9/1/2009 Could it be OCD or PTSD?
Release date: 8/1/2009 Correction
Release date: 8/1/2009 Ask more questions
Release date: 7/1/2009 ‘What do the voices tell you?’
Release date: 7/1/2009 Workplace mobbing is real
Release date: 7/1/2009 Don’t ‘teach to the test’
Release date: 7/1/2009 Scales are worth the time
Release date: 7/1/2009 Not all reactions need analysis
Release date: 6/1/2009 Unconscious reactions
Release date: 6/1/2009 Mobbing is not PTSD
Release date: 6/1/2009 Mania: The other pole
Release date: 6/1/2009 Is fibromyalgia a pain disorder?
Release date: 5/1/2009 Is bipolar disorder overdiagnosed?
Release date: 4/1/2009 Augment clozapine with haloperidol?
Oliver Freudenreich, MD
Release date: 3/1/2009 Is clinical judgment enough to restrict driving?
Release date: 2/1/2009 Should dissociative identity disorder be in DSM-V?
Release date: 2/1/2009 Add avoidance/anxiety to DSM-V stuttering criteria
Release date: 2/1/2009 Mnemonic possession
Release date: 1/1/2009 Treat dementia holistically
Release date: 1/1/2009 Ask returning veterans about traumatic brain injury
Release date: 11/1/2008 Psychiatry ethics guidelines need to be revised
Release date: 11/1/2008 Examine the evidence on expert witness testimony
Release date: 11/1/2008 What are ‘normal’ feelings?
Release date: 10/1/2008 Is chlorpromazine safe?
Release date: 9/1/2008 Self-deception and changing roles
Release date: 9/1/2008 ‘What’s ailing psychiatry?’ Patient care is top concern
Release date: 8/1/2008 More challenges to consider
Release date: 8/1/2008 Don’t abandon psychotherapy
Release date: 8/1/2008 Need to keep patients longer
Release date: 8/1/2008 Help patients with ’CME fund’
Release date: 6/1/2008 Residents need CME, too
Release date: 6/1/2008 CME: A polarizing issue
Release date: 6/1/2008 Patients’ plight is no joke
Release date: 6/1/2008 No lobbyists for mentally ill
Release date: 6/1/2008 Patients need proper treatment and supervision
Release date: 5/1/2008 Try new treatment modalities
Release date: 5/1/2008 Provide patients asylum
Release date: 5/1/2008 Prevent tragic consequences
Release date: 5/1/2008 The lives left behind
Release date: 5/1/2008 Fueled by optimism
Release date: 5/1/2008 Showing bravery
Release date: 5/1/2008 Perpetuating a vicious circle
Release date: 5/1/2008 Discovering the true costs of deinstitutionalization
Release date: 5/1/2008 Pregnant and mentally ill: A complex clinical challenge
Release date: 4/1/2008 Pregnant and mentally ill: Protecting mother and child
Release date: 4/1/2008 Using family therapy for bipolar disorder
Vineet Padmanabhan, MRCPsych
Release date: 3/1/2008 Psychiatrists’ resolutions?
Gerald A. Shubs, MD
Release date: 3/1/2008 “How are they ‘really’ treating you?”
Release date: 1/1/2008 More innovation needed
Release date: 1/1/2008 Modafinil’s effects
Release date: 1/1/2008 Could a drug contribute to delusions of abuse?
Release date: 1/1/2008 ICD shocks and anxiety: Chicken or egg?
Release date: 11/1/2007 Identify and document suicide risk
Release date: 11/1/2007 Brain injury: More clues to symptom validity
Release date: 11/1/2007 Consider adding a stimulant to antidepressant treatment
Release date: 11/1/2007 CME ‘conflicts of interest’
Release date: 10/1/2007 Opiates calm addicts’ anger
Release date: 10/1/2007 Treat the head and the heart
Release date: 10/1/2007 Misinformation on herbals?
Release date: 9/1/2007 Financial disclosures: Readers’ right to know
Release date: 8/1/2007 Cards promote depression awareness on campuses
Release date: 8/1/2007 Gender misconceptions
Release date: 8/1/2007 What causes PTSD?
Release date: 8/1/2007 Overlooked mania
Release date: 7/1/2007 ‘Disruptive’ corporations’
Release date: 7/1/2007 DAMA dispute
Release date: 7/1/2007 Hypnotic alternatives
Release date: 6/1/2007 Hold harmful
Release date: 6/1/2007 Clinical prescribing guide
Release date: 6/1/2007 Re-experienced trauma
Release date: 6/1/2007 Stimulant danger defused
Release date: 6/1/2007 Off-label ‘experiments’?
Release date: 5/1/2007 Target symptoms, not studies
Release date: 5/1/2007 The meaning of gender
Release date: 5/1/2007 Delirium debate
Release date: 4/1/2007 Aripiprazole safety
Release date: 4/1/2007 To split or not to split?
Release date: 4/1/2007 Transsexualism TX: Why Now?
Release date: 3/1/2007 Antipsychotics for Delirium
Release date: 3/1/2007 Dangers of Stimulant Patch Misuse
Release date: 3/1/2007 Do Malpractice Safeguards Work?
Release date: 3/1/2007 REM while 'awake'
Release date: 2/1/2007 Discontinuation symptoms
Release date: 2/1/2007 'Meth' and psychosis
Release date: 2/1/2007 Effects of infertility
Release date: 2/1/2007 Safety first
Release date: 1/1/2007 Continued concerns about SGAs
Release date: 1/1/2007 Study samples key to assessing risk
Release date: 1/1/2007 Drs. Tandon and Constantine reply
Release date: 1/1/2007 Looking at the big picture
Release date: 1/1/2007 Mythbusting
Release date: 12/1/2006 SGAs for resistant depression
Release date: 12/1/2006 Clonazepam versus buspirone
Release date: 11/1/2006 Hail to the chief
Release date: 11/1/2006 Prescription pad packs a punch
Release date: 11/1/2006 ECT and memory loss
Release date: 10/1/2006 Opioids: Pain-management option for some older patients
Release date: 8/1/2006 Naltrexone blocks pain medication
Release date: 7/1/2006 CATIE’s uncontrolled factors
Release date: 6/1/2006 Psychodynamic causes behind bipolar disorder, schizophrenia
Release date: 6/1/2006 When anticonvulsants lead to rash
Release date: 6/1/2006 Bipolar disorder: One name doesn’t fit all
Release date: 5/1/2006 Schizophrenia: no mood disorder
Release date: 5/1/2006 Sample patient was clearly bipolar
Release date: 5/1/2006 ‘Fuzzy’ diagnostic boundaries
Release date: 5/1/2006 ‘Wrong-headed nosology’
Release date: 5/1/2006 Schizophrenia: a diagnosis of exclusion
Release date: 5/1/2006 Drs. Lake and Hurwitz respond
Release date: 5/1/2006 Patient need—not finances—should dictate visit length
Release date: 4/1/2006 How 15-minute med checks hurt patient care
Release date: 4/1/2006 Rethinking vitamin E
Release date: 4/1/2006 Med checks: 15 minutes can make a difference
Release date: 3/1/2006 Music memories quell addictions
Release date: 3/1/2006 Psychologists: Trained to recognize medical problems
Release date: 2/1/2006 Inpatient suicide: Who is liable, and how can we prevent it?
Release date: 1/1/2006 Why MDs—not psychologists—prescribe
Release date: 1/1/2006 What about Mr. D’s sleep apnea?
Release date: 1/1/2006 Hope for ‘meth’ addiction?
Release date: 12/1/2005 Discontinuation symptoms: Never say never
Release date: 12/1/2005 ‘Distracting’ patients from anxiety
Release date: 11/1/2005 Neurobiology and medication adherence
Release date: 11/1/2005 Correction
Release date: 11/1/2005 Antipsychotics and the elderly
Release date: 10/1/2005 Talk before testosterone
Release date: 10/1/2005 Adolescent violence: it takes two
Release date: 10/1/2005 Bipolar depression and substance abuse
Release date: 9/1/2005 Is Tom Cruise acting out?
Release date: 9/1/2005 Psychological testing in psychiatric practice
Release date: 8/1/2005 Why troubled youths don’t ‘connect’
Release date: 8/1/2005 Advances in detecting alcohol abuse
Release date: 8/1/2005 ADHD or bipolar, but not both
Release date: 7/1/2005 Medications for indigent patients
Release date: 7/1/2005 Dialectical behavior therapy to help ‘borderline’ patients
Release date: 6/1/2005 Forcing hoarders to conquer clutter
Release date: 6/1/2005 Informative and relevant
Release date: 6/1/2005 Prescribe first, ask questions later?
Release date: 5/1/2005 Primary care in psychiatry
Release date: 5/1/2005 Nurses as partners in care
Release date: 5/1/2005 Dementia or depression?
Release date: 4/1/2005 Psychiatry’s ‘Teammates’
Release date: 4/1/2005 Dealing with dissociation
Release date: 3/1/2005 Recovered memories, hypnosis, and dissociation
Release date: 3/1/2005 How psychiatrists are helping our troops
Release date: 3/1/2005 Correcting steroid data
Release date: 3/1/2005 Mood Stabilizers in Schizophrenia
Release date: 2/1/2005 Lab tests in psychiatry
Release date: 12/1/2004 Aggressive antipsychotic dosing
Release date: 11/1/2004 Bedside psychotherapy
Release date: 11/1/2004 A Divine delusion
Release date: 11/1/2004 Antipsychotic dosing for schizophrenia
Release date: 10/1/2004 Recovery and reintegration
Release date: 10/1/2004 High-dose antipsychotics
Release date: 10/1/2004 Correction
Release date: 10/1/2004 Ethics and patient privacy
Release date: 9/1/2004 Why some of us love music
Release date: 9/1/2004 Promiscuous prairie voles
Release date: 9/1/2004 Assessing suicide risk
Release date: 9/1/2004 Antipsychotic dosage correction
Release date: 8/1/2004 Is conduct disorder real?
Release date: 8/1/2004 Exercise and depression
Release date: 8/1/2004 New drugs: The whole story
Release date: 7/1/2004 Treating tardive dyskinesia
Release date: 7/1/2004 Treating depression, chronic pain
Release date: 7/1/2004 Flight, then fight
Release date: 6/1/2004 ‘Guidelines’ vs. ‘rules’
Release date: 6/1/2004 Dosing omega-3 fatty acids
Release date: 6/1/2004 NMS: Spelling it out
Release date: 6/1/2004 On self-mutilation
Release date: 6/1/2004 SSRIs in pediatric patients
Release date: 5/1/2004 Skin picking: one teenager’s struggle
Release date: 5/1/2004 Writing prescriptions on PDAs
Release date: 5/1/2004 Race and patient violence
Release date: 4/1/2004 Clarifying risk factors for violence
Release date: 4/1/2004 Bipolar I vs. Bipolar II
Release date: 4/1/2004 Auto accidents and physician liability
Release date: 2/1/2004 Estrogen, HRT, and mood disorders
Release date: 12/1/2003 Lithium in bipolar disorder
Release date: 12/1/2003 Using lithium in bipolar disorder
Release date: 11/1/2003 Hypochondriasis prevalence
Release date: 11/1/2003 Serotonin toxicity and 5-HT2A receptors
Release date: 10/1/2003 Staying ‘Current’
Release date: 10/1/2003 Visual hallucinations and drug therapy
Release date: 6/1/2003 Shedding light on SAD therapy
Release date: 4/1/2003 Atypical antipsychotics and autism
Release date: 12/1/2002 Sexual addiction: disorder vs. personality
Release date: 11/1/2002 Measuring speech pauses to help suicidal patients
Release date: 10/1/2002 Improving the ‘awful’ task of reading journals
Release date: 10/1/2002 Managing every mental disorder?
Release date: 10/1/2002 Communication impairments in Asperger’s disorder
Release date: 9/1/2002 Call for CME opportunities
Release date: 9/1/2002 Is Prozac more effective than generic fluoxetine?
Release date: 8/1/2002 ‘Clinically valuable’ information
Release date: 8/1/2002 MAOIs and pizza: food for thought
Release date: 8/1/2002 NMHA: Bar executions of mentally ill defendants
Release date: 8/1/2002 Questioning ADHD red flags
Release date: 6/1/2002 Questions about case study
Release date: 4/1/2002 About no-suicide contracts
Release date: 4/1/2002 Plaudits for a useful, easy-to-read journal
Release date: 3/1/2002 Picking up on the fine print
Release date: 3/1/2002
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