Dec 17, 2014

This audio program includes a discussion of mercury poisoning and its neuropsychiatric presentations and presents a large study that used a new approach to testing the effect of antidepressants on heart rate. Several articles are about biomarkers of psychiatric illness: one identified a combined epigenetic and genetic...

Nov 7, 2014

This audio program explores pulmonary embolism in psychiatric patients, a trial of smoking cessation combining varenicline and bupropion, a trial comparing quetiapine with placebo for treatment of borderline personality disorder, a study of positive traits in co-twins of patients with bipolar disorder, a study...

Oct 1, 2014

This audio program explores relapse prevention in pediatric depression and the risk of mania or hypomania for patients with bipolar depression taking an antidepressant without a mood stabilizer. The series on global mental health describes a man in Cambodia with seizures, anorexia, and depression. The issue...

Sep 2, 2014

This audio program presents diagnostic and treatment aspects of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, predictors of long-term outcome in youths with bipolar disorder, reading ability and elements of impulsivity related to aggression in schizophrenia, a global health review of a woman in Uganda with HIV and...

Aug 4, 2014

This audio program presents a case of delirium with manic symptoms in a patient with end-stage COPD, a clinical vignette about a chronically depressed woman in Iran, low dopamine transmission in the prefrontal cortex of people with alcoholism, a test of mindfulness training as a way to increase resilience in...