Bipolar Disorder
Commentary
Lamotrigine for bipolar depression?
In reading Dr. Nasrallah's August 2022 editorial (“Reversing depression: A plethora of therapeutic strategies and mechanisms,” Current Psychiatry...
Conference Coverage
Bipolar risk and parental age: What’s the relationship?
“We must stress that this risk is moderate, and it must be kept in perspective,” said Dr. Giovanna Fico.
From the Journals
‘Disturbing’ lack of follow-up care after psychiatric crises
Patients who had received both primary care and mental health care before an acute event had the highest odds of receiving follow-up.
Commentary
Clinical psychoeconomics: Accounting for money matters in psychiatric assessment and treatment
Financial concerns often provoke emotional distress and dysfunctional behaviors, and directly influence patients’ health care decisions.
Shrink Rap News
The hunt for N-acetylcysteine: Medicine or dietary supplement?
NAC has caught the attention of psychiatrists because of claims that it may be useful in treating OCD, trichotillomania, and excoriation skin...
Pearls
Lithium, valproate, and suicide risk: Analysis of 98,831 cases
The current academic psychiatry paradigm reinforces that lithium reduces suicide risk, more so than other medications, including valproate.
Pearls
Preparing patients with serious mental illness for extreme HEAT
Climate change is causing intense heat waves that threaten human health across the globe.
Pearls
Lithium for bipolar disorder: Which patients will respond?
T hough Cade discovered it 70 years ago, lithium is still considered the gold standard treatment for preventing manic and depressive phases of...
From the Journals
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale succeeds as transdiagnostic measure
The BPRS showed solid correlation with the mini-ICF-APP for disorders in six different categories.
From the Journals
Telemental health linked with improvements in key outcomes
“Telemedicine doesn’t address the national shortage of providers, but it definitely helps in underserved areas [and] rural areas,” said Dr. Haiden...
Conference Coverage
Advance directives for psychiatric care reduce compulsory admissions
“Compulsory psychiatric admissions are far too common in countries of all income levels,” said Dr. Aurélie Tinland.