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A Clinician’s Brief Guide to Chronotherapy for Affective DisordersChronotherapy presents a unique tool to add to the armamentarium of available modalities for management of non-seasonal depression. Clinicians should be familiar with its application and be able to implement it in recalcitrant sufferers.
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Stroke in Young Adults: The Lasting Effects of TraumaThis generation of young people may have a unique risk of exposure to stress and researchers and clinicians are increasingly concerned about the long-term health consequences of such chronic exposure for young adults.
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Stroke in Young Adults: The Lasting Effects of TraumaThis generation of young people may have a unique risk of exposure to stress and researchers and clinicians are increasingly concerned about the long-term health consequences of such chronic exposure for young adults.
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Stroke in Young Adults: The Lasting Effects of TraumaThis generation of young people may have a unique risk of exposure to stress and researchers and clinicians are increasingly concerned about the long-term health consequences of such chronic exposure for young adults.
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Pharmacological Management of Violence and Violent Behavior in Psychiatric SettingsPsychotic violence is associated with primary psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder. While it may be that psychotic violence is the least common type of violence in inpatient environments, it is also the most treatable.
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Pharmacological Management of Violence and Violent Behavior in Psychiatric SettingsPsychotic violence is associated with primary psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder. While it may be that psychotic violence is the least common type of violence in inpatient environments, it is also the most treatable.
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My Ketamine JourneysLearn more about one psychiatrist’s personal experiential learning process with ketamine.
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Beyond Terminal Illness: The Widening Scope of Physician-Assisted Suicide in the USPhysician-assisted suicide is now legal in 11 jurisdictions in the US. To this, several clinicians say: “We must care for the dying, not make them dead.” Learn more in our June cover story.
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Breaking the Spell: Fighting Myths About COVID-19 VaccinationThe vaccine needs to be appropriately framed: as a benefit, not a risk.
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Special Issues for Patients With SUDs Undergoing SurgeryThis innovative program at Massachusetts General Hospital addresses postoperative pain while preventing relapse in patients a history of opioid use disorder.
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Untangling the Web of Comorbid Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Medical IllnessOCD symptoms can be quite difficult to recognize. Not understanding what is happening, patients tend to be ashamed and suffer in silence, often resulting in a period of 8 to 10 years of untreated illness and long-term negative outcomes.
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Differentiating Comorbid Bipolar Disorder and OCDThis review highlights an important diagnostic and therapeutic task: the importance of differentiating true bipolar disorder/obsessive-compulsive disorder comorbidity from BD with secondary OCD.
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Untangling the Web of Comorbid Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Medical IllnessOCD symptoms can be quite difficult to recognize. Not understanding what is happening, patients tend to be ashamed and suffer in silence, often resulting in a period of 8 to 10 years of untreated illness and long-term negative outcomes.
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Untangling the Web of Comorbid Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Medical IllnessOCD symptoms can be quite difficult to recognize. Not understanding what is happening, patients tend to be ashamed and suffer in silence, often resulting in a period of 8 to 10 years of untreated illness and long-term negative outcomes.
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Differentiating Comorbid Bipolar Disorder and OCDThis review highlights an important diagnostic and therapeutic task: the importance of differentiating true bipolar disorder/obsessive-compulsive disorder comorbidity from BD with secondary OCD.
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Untangling the Web of Comorbid Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Medical IllnessOCD symptoms can be quite difficult to recognize. Not understanding what is happening, patients tend to be ashamed and suffer in silence, often resulting in a period of 8 to 10 years of untreated illness and long-term negative outcomes.
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May 26, 1925: The First Malariotherapy Trial in AustraliaTreatment for "the scourge of psychiatry" involved malariotherapy-infecting the patient with malaria; the resulting high fevers were believed to kill off the syphilis organisms.
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The Impact of Daylight Savings TimeWhat do you and your patients need to know about adjusting to daylight savings time?
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The Impact of Daylight Savings TimeWhat do you and your patients need to know about adjusting to daylight savings time?
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Untangling the Web of Comorbid Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Medical IllnessOCD symptoms can be quite difficult to recognize. Not understanding what is happening, patients tend to be ashamed and suffer in silence, often resulting in a period of 8 to 10 years of untreated illness and long-term negative outcomes.
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Humility and Lived Experience in the COVID EraThe 90s were the decade of the brain. We thought we could master science, but the more we learn, the more complex things become. Sandra Steingard, MD, shares her thoughts in this video.
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Treatment and Prevention of Parental AlienationWhen parents take steps to end their marriages, the default arrangement for children should be shared parenting. Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, lawyers, and judges can help parents avoid irreparable harm.
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Prior Authorizations and (Micro)managed CareDenial of coverage can be frustrating. Here’s how you as a clinician can handle these situations.
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Confronting the Methamphetamine EpidemicAs all eyes were on the pandemic, another surge simmered below the surface.
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Expanding Telemental Health in Response to the COVID-19 PandemicThe use of social distancing to “flatten the curve” and prevent the spread of COVID-19 has catapulted the use of telehealth.
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Expanding Telemental Health in Response to the COVID-19 PandemicThe use of social distancing to “flatten the curve” and prevent the spread of COVID-19 has catapulted the use of telehealth.
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Psychiatric Services for College Students Across State LinesMeera Menon, MD, talks how best to care for your college student patients when they are a long way from home.
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Universities’ Response to Supporting Mental Health of College Students During the COVID-19 PandemicCollege students are uniquely vulnerable to both everyday stressors and severe mental illness, and psychiatric symptoms among college students appear to be on the rise.
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Making a Bridge in a Time of WarHow can you learn from, appreciate, and grieve for other cultures?
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The Coercive Cycle: A School to Prison Pipeline?The authors discuss abusive disciplinary practices that continue to this day despite considerable evidence to the contrary and share thoughts and implications for psychiatrists.
