Schizophrenia & Other Psychotic Disorders
From the Journals
Targeting obesity could slow brain aging in psychosis
"The brains of participants with [first-episode psychosis] appeared on average 2.64 years older than their chronological age."
Podcasts
MDedge Psychcast: Interview with Dr. Henry Nasrallah
This is the first episode of our new psychiatry podcast.
Evidence-Based Reviews
Aripiprazole, brexpiprazole, and cariprazine: Not all the same
Understanding the key differences among these agents can help inform treatment decisions.
Podcasts
Aripiprazole, brexpiprazole, and cariprazine
Leslie Citrome, MD, MPH, discusses the differences among 3 dopamine receptor partial agonists.
From the Journals
Early trauma exposure tied to telomere shortening in men with schizophrenia
“Pathobiology of schizophrenia may lie ... in the mechanisms related to sexual differentiation.”
From the Editor
The crisis of poor physical health and early mortality of psychiatric patients
To prevent premature death, collaborative care with a primary care provider is a must, not an option, for every psychiatric patient.
From the Journals
Consanguineous parentage raises risk of mood disorders, psychoses in offspring
Children of first-cousin consanguineous parents are at greater risk of being prescribed psychotropic medications than those born to nonrelated...
Cases That Test Your Skills
A 10-year-old boy with ‘voices in my head’: Is it a psychotic disorder?
M, age 10, reports hearing 'voices in my head' that tell him he is going to choke on his food, and this causes fear and anxiety. Is a psychotic...
Commentary
Tardive dyskinesia is theme of awards competition for early career psychiatrists
Dr. Stanley N. Caroff announces details about the 2018 Promising Scholars Program.
Pearls
Tardive dyskinesia: 5 Steps for prevention
Prevention is the key strategy for lowering the rate of TD, and it should be the assumed responsibility of each clinician in every prescription...
From the Journals
Possible increased breast cancer risk found in women with schizophrenia
The authors suggested that people with schizophrenia could have other clinical conditions such as obesity that might increase their risk of breast...
