Schizophrenia & Other Psychotic Disorders
Latest News
Schizophrenia up to three times more common than previously thought
An estimated 11 million adults aged 18-65 had both a mental health disorder and a substance use disorder in the past year.
Evidence-Based Reviews
Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy programs: How they can be improved
Health care professionals suggest ways to enhance the REMS of 3 psychotropics.
Feature
Tips for addressing uptick in mental health visits: Primary care providers collaborate, innovate
Clinical psychologist recommends primary care providers screen all adult patients for depression and anxiety.
From the Journals
Ketamine may be a viable alternative to ECT for severe depression
This was an “extraordinarily important and clinically relevant study, large, well-designed, and well-conducted,” said Dr. Dan Iosifescu.
Conference Coverage
Music therapy helps motivate patients with schizophrenia
Music therapy may also help with sleep disturbances, depression, and regulating emotional behavior.
Conference Coverage
Psychiatrists: Don’t fear clozapine in treatment-resistant schizophrenia
Benign ethnic neutropenia “does not increase the risk of clozapine-induced severe neutropenia,” said Dr. Laura Clarke.
Pearls
When a patient wants to stop taking their antipsychotic: Be ‘A SPORT’
For patients with schizophrenia, adherence to antipsychotic treatment reduces the rate of relapse of psychosis, lowers the rate of...
Commentary
Dysphagia in a patient with schizophrenia: Is the antipsychotic the culprit?
Mr. N, age 58, has a history of schizophrenia, tobacco use disorder, and alcohol use disorder
Conference Coverage
Quick medication, better communication linked to less violence at inpatient psych unit
Clinicians emphasized quick access to antipsychotic medication and more staff communication.
Conference Coverage
Black people most likely to be restrained in EDs
Researchers blame racism for both findings of an analysis of 3 North Carolina hospitals.
Commentary
Choosing our terms: The diagnostic words we use can be harmful
Can psychiatry find better terms to communicate hard to hear information, with words that are less problematic?