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Happy Birthday, CATIE!
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- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
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A decade after the CATIE study, the focus has shifted from effectiveness to neuroprotection
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
This past September, exactly 10 years after publication of the primary findings of the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness...
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Non-drug therapies for refractory schizophrenia
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- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
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Needed: A biopsychosocial ‘therapeutic placenta’ for people with schizophrenia
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- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Schizophrenia and stroke are 2 serious brain disorders that involve brain damage and disability. Yet the difference between the 2 disorders is...
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What do you do when clozapine fails?
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- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
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Do you practice sophisticated psychiatry? 10 Proposed foundations of advanced care
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- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Progress in scientific and clinical knowledge of psychiatry is proceeding at a furious pace.
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Managing first-episode psychosis: Rationale and evidence for nonstandard first-line treatments for schizophrenia
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- Kristen N. Gardner, PharmD
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Consider long-acting injectable antipsychotics; use clozapine as second- or third-line therapy only. Second of 2 parts.
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Is there only 1 neurobiologic psychiatric disorder, with different clinical expressions?
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- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
The nearly 1,000-page DSM-5 lists hundreds of psychiatric disorders, with an operational clinical process to distinguish them.
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Beyond dopamine: Brain repair tactics in schizophrenia
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- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Let’s be honest: No one is satisfied with current treatment outcomes in schizophrenia.
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Managing first-episode psychosis: An early stage of schizophrenia with distinct treatment needs
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- Kristen N. Gardner, PharmD
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Minimize duration of untreated psychosis; aim for remission
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Psychoneurogastroenterology: The abdominal brain, the microbiome, and psychiatry
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Existence of a gastrointestinal (GI) nervous system, distinct from the CNS that comprises the brain and spinal cord, has been recognized for more...
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Unmet needs and hassles of psychiatric practice
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- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Few things are more aggravating than having to secure preauthorization from an insurance company to hospitalize an acutely ill patient or to...
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10 Triggers of inflammation to be avoided, to reduce the risk of depression
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- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
According to the World Health Organization, depression is one of the most prevalent serious brain disorders and the No. 1 cause of disability in...
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10 Recent paradigm shifts in the neurobiology and treatment of depression
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- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
The serendipity of half a century ago that hatched hoary theories of the etiology of psychopathology is fading rapidly. Transformative models are...
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From bedlam to biomarkers: The transformation of psychiatry’s terminology reflects its 4 conceptual earthquakes
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- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
I fell in love with psychiatry at age 14. Since then, I have witnessed this medical specialty reinvent itself 4 times. This transformation is...