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Each episode of AJP Audio brings you an in-depth look at one of the articles featured in that month’s issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry, the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association. Wide-ranging interviews with article authors cover the background, rationale, main findings, and future implications of the research.

Jul 1, 2009

This audio program discusses compulsive checking as part of PTSD in veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; a new foster care network in Bucharest, Romania; the effects of bereavement 21 months after the sudden death of a parent; the 4-year course of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents; an auditory training program designed to improve verbal memory in patients with schizophrenia; and a postmortem analysis differentiating the expression of type 2 and type 3 metabotropic glutamate receptors in the brain to clarify an agonist’s antipsychotic action. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.