Reviews
Pearls
How to detect and prevent prescription abuse
Pearls
How to detect and prevent prescription abuse
Evidence-Based Reviews
From a trickle to a flood: Pipelines fill with psychotropics for children
Pediatric prescribing stands to gain as pharmaceutical companies develop new indications and drugs for younger patients.
Evidence-Based Reviews
From a trickle to a flood: Pipelines fill with psychotropics for children
Pediatric prescribing stands to gain as pharmaceutical companies develop new indications and drugs for younger patients.
Pearls
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Evidence-Based Reviews
Using atypicals for patients without psychosis: The strength of evidence varies with the diagnosis
Antipsychotics are being investigated for pediatric conditions including anxiety disorder, autism, and Tourette’s syndrome. Studies show benefit...
Pearls
Seven common myths about depression and antidepressant therapy
Pearls
In a virtual world, games can be therapeutic
Starting this month, Current Psychiatry’s Web site (http://www.currentpsychiatry.com) will feature “Psyber Psychiatry,” a monthly column by John...
Evidence-Based Reviews
In a virtual world, games can be therapeutic
Starting this month, Current Psychiatry’s Web site (http://www.currentpsychiatry.com) will feature “Psyber Psychiatry,” a monthly column by John...
Evidence-Based Reviews
EEGs and epilepsy: When seizures mimic psychiatric illness
If a patient with psychiatric illness has seizure-like episodes, an abnormal EEG may help confirm the diagnosis. This neurologist offers five case...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Hypertension: Pitfalls to prescribing for patients with high blood pressure
Chronic psychiatric disorders go hand-in-hand with risk factors for elevated blood pressure. Here are diagnostic and treatment strategies to help...