Schizophrenia & Other Psychotic Disorders
Conference Coverage
Address physical health risks of people with SMI
ROCKVILLE, MD. – Strategies still are needed to fight obesity, diabetes, smoking, and sedentary behavior.
Latest News
For people with SMI, disclosure still challenging
ROCKVILLE, MD. – Researchers looked at how people decide to tell employers and coworkers about diagnoses of serious mental illness.
Pearls
Clozapine-induced GI hypomotility: From constipation to bowel obstruction
Patients who are treated with clozapine—a second-generation antipsychotic approved for treatment-resistant schizophrenia—require monitoring for...
From the Editor
FAST and RAPID: Acronyms to prevent brain damage in stroke and psychosis
Psychosis and stroke are arguably the most serious acute threats to the integrity of the brain, and consequently the mind. Both are unquestionably...
Latest News
Judge seeks replication of efforts to support people with SMI
Florida judge is seeking to end what he sees as an overuse of incarceration.
Cases That Test Your Skills
Bugs on her skin—but nobody else sees them
Ms. L, age 74, presents to the ED with multiple excoriations after attempting to kill bugs on and in her skin. Clinicians are unable to find any...
From the Journals
Peer-comparison letters reduce physician quetiapine prescribing
A letter-based intervention targeting primary care physicians with high quetiapine-prescribing rates in the Medicare program shows significant...
What Your Patients are Hearing
Prescribing psychotropics to pediatric patients
Dr. Perri Klass says allaying parents’ concerns is a big challenge.
FDA/CDC
FDA approves Perseris for schizophrenia
The drug achieved clinically relevant levels without the need for a loading or supplemental doses.
Evidence-Based Reviews
Catatonia: How to identify and treat it
Features that overlap with other syndromes make the diagnosis easy to overlook.
From the Journals
Fetal exposure to folic acid may reduce youth psychosis risk
The benefits of exposure to prenatal folic acid might “extend beyond prevention of neural tube defects and span neurodevelopment during childhood...