American Journal of Psychiatry Audio

March 2017 Highlights

01 Mar 2017

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This month, Executive Editor Michael Roy discusses collaboration between psychiatry and obstetrics, prescription opioid use disorder during pregnancy,...

February 2017 Highlights

01 Feb 2017

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This month, Executive Editor Michael Roy discusses the use of stimulants and performance enhancers as a possible risk factor for PTSD, behavioral and ...

January 2017 Highlights

03 Jan 2017

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This month, Deputy Editor Susan K. Schultz, M.D., discusses the association of hypnotic medications and suicide, neurometabolic disorders in treatment...

December 2016 Highlights

01 Dec 2016

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This month, Deputy Editor Susan K. Schultz, M.D., discusses combat attachment behaviors in former service members with PTSD, postpartum psychosis, the...

November 2016 Highlights

01 Nov 2016

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This month, Deputy Editor Susan K. Schultz, M.D., discusses practice and policies on perinatal substance abuse, relapse risk in patients with remitted...

October 2016 Highlights

01 Oct 2016

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This month, Deputy Editor Susan K. Schultz, M.D., discusses research on preventing firearm suicide, treatment guidelines for adult attention deficit h...

September 2016 Highlights

01 Sep 2016

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This month, Deputy Editor Susan K. Schultz, M.D., discusses the diagnosis and treatment of trichotillomania, combining antidepressants with antipsycho...

August 2016 Highlights

01 Aug 2016

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This month, Deputy Editor Susan K. Schultz, M.D., discusses accelerometers in diagnosis and treatment of late-life depression, concomitant use of SSRI...

July 2016 Highlights

01 Jul 2016

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This month, Deputy Editor Susan K. Schultz, M.D., discusses how psychiatrists can extend their role to treatment of general health conditions, how to ...

June 2016 Highlights

01 Jun 2016

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This month, Executive Editor Michael Roy discusses nutrient-based treatments as adjuncts to antidepressants, the prevalence and characteristics of can...

May 2016 Highlights

01 May 2016

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This month, Executive Editor Michael Roy discusses a generalist model for treatment of borderline personality disorder, citalopram treatment for agita...

April 2016 Highlights

01 Apr 2016

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This month, Deputy Editor Susan K. Schultz, M.D., discusses lurasidone for major depression with mixed features, bitemporal ECT compared with high-dos...

March 2016 Highlights

01 Mar 2016

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This month, Deputy Editor Susan K. Schultz, M.D., discusses depression following stroke; cerebral abnormalities in patients with first-episode schizop...

February 2016 Highlights

01 Feb 2016

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This month, Executive Editor Michael Roy discusses the risk of postpartum relapse in bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis, the relation of pregna...

January 2016 Highlights

01 Jan 2016

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This month, Deputy Editor Susan K. Schultz, M.D., discusses a request for abortion by a woman with major depression and psychosis, an update on prescr...

December 2015 Highlights

01 Dec 2015

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This month, Deputy Editor Susan K. Schultz, M.D., discusses management of alcohol use disorder in patients requiring liver transplant, adding ziprasid...

November 2015 Highlights

01 Nov 2015

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This month, Deputy Editor Susan K. Schultz, M.D., discusses psychiatric symptoms in Wilson's disease, interactions between inflammation and depression...

October 2015 Highlights

01 Oct 2015

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This audio program explores the role of ketamine and other NMDA antagonists as treatments for depression, and a replication study of a gene-environmen...

September 2015 Highlights

01 Sep 2015

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This audio program features a discussion of differential diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, autoimmune encephalitis in postpartum psychosis, the ro...

August 2015 Highlights

12 Aug 2015

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This audio program includes a discussion of the role of the psychiatrist in the collaborative care model, pharmacological management of Lewy body deme...

July 2015 Highlights

12 Aug 2015

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This audio program explores the diagnostic precursors of bipolar disorder in offspring of bipolar parents, as well as a study examining the intergener...

June 2015 Highlights

12 Aug 2015

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This audio program features a discussion on a pair of research articles on teenage drinking and on a review article on cognitive-behavioral therapy fo...

May 2015 Highlights

12 Aug 2015

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This audio program presents a discussion of diagnostic and clinical challenges of narcissistic personality disorder and of two clinical trials of psyc...

April 2015 Highlights

12 Aug 2015

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This audio program includes a discussion of a study that used an algorithm to search electronic health records for clinical information relevant to th...

March 2015 Highlights

04 Aug 2015

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This audio program includes a discussion of adjustment disorder in a health care worker with Ebola, a case of psychotic symptoms that improved with a ...

February 2015 Highlights

06 Feb 2015

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This audio program includes a study of postpartum psychosis and mania, a home-visiting intervention for pregnant teenage American Indian mothers, brai...

January 2015 Highlights

20 Jan 2015

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This audio program includes a discussion of hypercalcemia and hyperparathyroidism during lithium therapy. It also examines ECT for treatment-resistant...

December 2014 Highlights

17 Dec 2014

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This audio program includes a discussion of mercury poisoning and its neuropsychiatric presentations and presents a large study that used a new approa...

November 2014 Highlights

07 Nov 2014

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This audio program explores pulmonary embolism in psychiatric patients, a trial of smoking cessation combining varenicline and bupropion, a trial comp...

October 2014 Highlights

01 Oct 2014

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This audio program explores relapse prevention in pediatric depression and the risk of mania or hypomania for patients with bipolar depression taking ...

September 2014 Highlights

02 Sep 2014

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This audio program presents diagnostic and treatment aspects of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, predictors of long-term outcome in youths with...

August 2014 Highlights

04 Aug 2014

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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...

July 2014 Highlights

01 Jul 2014

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This audio program discusses a new tool for screening military veterans to evaluate the risk of violence. One article reviews the care of pregnant wom...

June 2014 Highlights

02 Jun 2014

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This audio program discusses DSM-5 classification of anxiety and related disorders, antipsychotic use in breast cancer patients, and adult outcomes of...

May 2014 Highlights

01 May 2014

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This audio program begins with a new section, Perspectives in Global Mental Health, featuring cultural aspects of depression and ideas for global diss...

April 2014 Highlights

01 Apr 2014

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This audio program offers a commentary on the Research Domain Criteria project by the Director of NIMH. In addition, it reviews liver injury due to an...

March 2014 Highlights

04 Mar 2014

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This audio program reviews psychiatric symptoms in prion disease, emotion dysregulation in ADHD, the effects of fluoxetine on the serotonin transporte...

February 2014 Highlights

06 Feb 2014

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This audio program examines lurasidone treatment of bipolar depression, both as monotherapy and as an adjunct; psychotherapy for bipolar depression re...

January 2014 Highlights

10 Jan 2014

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This audio program examines the risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding with short-term use of SSRIs and schizophrenia complicated by hepatitis C and ...

December 2013 Highlights

04 Dec 2013

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This audio program introduces the DSM-5 diagnosis of somatic symptom disorder, considers a case of psychological vulnerability to persistent amnesia f...

November 2013 Highlights

01 Nov 2013

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This audio program includes an overview of the DSM-5 diagnoses for eating disorders, a report on brain activation in patients with panic disorder who ...

October 2013 Highlights

03 Oct 2013

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This audio program includes a case of folie à deux and infanticide, the DSM-5 changes in sleep disorder classification, and new research on ketamine ...

September 2013 Highlights

11 Sep 2013

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This audio program examines relationships between violence and mental illness. This issue looks at psychiatric characteristics of homicide defendants,...

August 2013 Highlights

01 Aug 2013

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This audio program contains articles on changes to substance use disorders for DSM-5, adaptive treatment for smoking cessation, the efficacy of functi...

July 2013 Highlights

08 Jul 2013

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This audio program contains articles on the behavioral treatment of insomnia in bipolar disorder, the relation of childhood trauma to psychotic experi...

June 2013 Highlights

03 Jun 2013

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This audio program contains several articles on the treatment of depression. It examines brain tissue loss in schizophrenia and brain changes in women...

May 2013 Highlights

01 May 2013

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This audio program contains recommendations for treating loss of libido in women with schizophrenia, a discussion of why anorexia nervosa is so persis...

April 2013 Highlights

01 Apr 2013

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This audio program contains discussions of white blood cell monitoring for patients taking clozapine, sleep disturbances in PTSD, addiction-related di...

March 2013 Highlights

01 Mar 2013

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This audio program contains tips on using telepsychiatry and guidelines for monitoring metabolic abnormalities in bipolar disorder. It also features r...

February 2013 Highlights

01 Feb 2013

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This audio program contains research that considers clozapine as a first-line treatment for schizophrenia, a recently developed scale for negative sym...

January 2013 Highlights

03 Jan 2013

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This audio program contains a group of articles on the design and results of the DSM-5 field trials with the study of test-retest reliability for sele...

December 2012 Highlights

05 Dec 2012

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This audio program discusses a meta-analysis of family-genetic studies on comorbidity between ADHD and bipolar disorder, an imaging study about white ...

November 2012 Highlights

05 Nov 2012

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This audio program discusses how ketamine creates its rapid antidepressant effect, skin-picking disorder, the IQ and behavioral problems in children o...

October 2012 Highlights

02 Oct 2012

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This audio program discusses a modified approach to bulimia nervosa for patients who are overweight, the role of medical comorbidity and the interacti...

September 2012 Highlights

06 Sep 2012

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This audio program discusses the relationship between mental disorders and unpredictability during gestation and the early postnatal period, changes i...

August 2012 Highlights

20 Aug 2012

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This audio program discusses chronic care models for mental health conditions, an over-the-counter antioxidant for treating cannabis dependence in ado...

July 2012 Highlights

20 Aug 2012

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This audio program discusses integrated treatment for PTSD and comorbid alcohol dependence in an Iraq veteran, an analysis of mental illness coverage ...

June 2012 Highlights

06 Aug 2012

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This audio program discusses medical marijuana and the role of physicians, an outbreak of tuberculosis among mentally ill patients, a review article o...

May 2012 Highlights

17 May 2012

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This audio program discusses premenstrual dysphoric disorder and its case for inclusion in DSM-5; long-term outcomes for symptoms and suicidal behavio...

April 2012 Highlights

06 Apr 2012

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This audio program discusses postpartum obsessions and compulsions; a new perspective on anhedonia in schizophrenia; the perception of emotion in schi...

March 2012 Highlights

06 Apr 2012

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This audio program discusses whether striatal dopamine transporter abnormalities are part of ADHD or a response to medication; the effect of gastric b...

February 2012 Highlights

06 Apr 2012

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This audio program discusses abnormal thyroid function tests in psychiatric patients; persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn and its relatio...

January 2012 Highlights

13 Jan 2012

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This audio program discusses Oregon's experience with insurance parity for mental illness, links between behaviors during adolescence and mental healt...

December 2011 Highlights

09 Dec 2011

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This audio program discusses a project in China that introduced psychiatry to thousands of rural physicians; how disorders of fear extinction could be...

November 2011 Highlights

10 Nov 2011

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This audio program discusses a successful clozapine re-challenge after previous treatment that led to eosinophilia; a meta-analysis of gray matter vol...

October 2011 Highlights

06 Oct 2011

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This audio program discusses a study showing that alcohol consumption is affected by the interaction of psychosocial stress and a gene involved in cir...

September 2011 Highlights

07 Sep 2011

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This audio program discusses the relationship between nearly 100 candidate genes and 12 endophenotypes for schizophrenia; the metabolic effects of swi...

August 2011 Highlights

26 Jul 2011

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This audio program discusses psychiatric complications of medical marijuana; linkage of depression to a region on chromosome 3; cognitive effects of a...

July 2011 Highlights

01 Jul 2011

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This audio program discusses combining medications for depression; switching from polypharmacy to monotherapy for schizophrenia; combining gabapentin ...

June 2011 Highlights

31 May 2011

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This audio program discusses the relationship between remission of depression in mothers and psychiatric symptoms in their children; brain structure i...

May 2011 Highlights

03 May 2011

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This audio program discusses treatment for dependence on prescription painkillers; the effect of national health insurance reform on coverage of indiv...

April 2011 Highlights

01 Apr 2011

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This audio program discusses repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression; nicotine replacement for agitation in schizophrenia patients...

March 2011 Highlights

01 Mar 2011

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This audio program discusses the outcome of risperidone nonadherence in early schizophrenia, a pharmacogenetic approach to treatment for alcohol depen...

February 2011 Highlights

07 Feb 2011

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This audio program discusses severe mood dysregulation and bipolar disorder in children; a longitudinal study of cortical development in children with...

January 2011 Highlights

05 Jan 2011

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This audio program discusses a follow-up investigation of patients with major depression over intervals as long as 31 years to determine whether subcl...

December 2010 Highlights

01 Dec 2010

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This audio program discusses deep brain stimulation for treatment of depression; personalized medicine for depression; national trends in outpatient p...

November 2010 Highlights

05 Nov 2010

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This audio program discusses public perceptions of mental illness, research on the neural circuitry of postpartum depression, the genetics of autism, ...

October 2010 Highlights

01 Oct 2010

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This audio program discusses delirium in infants in critical care settings; a study of suicidal women with borderline personality disorder comparing s...

September 2010 Highlights

08 Sep 2010

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This audio program discusses psychiatric manifestations of paraneoplastic disorders; prenatal and neonatal brain structure in children at high risk fo...

August 2010 Highlights

09 Aug 2010

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This audio program discusses two-phase psychotherapy for PTSD related to childhood abuse, rapid versus gradual discontinuation of antidepressants, aug...

July 2010 Highlights

02 Jul 2010

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This audio program discusses the clinical case of a patient with both psychotic and obsessive-compulsive symptoms; the treatment of adolescent depress...

June 2010 Highlights

28 May 2010

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This audio program discusses the use of medications for three different types of alcohol dependence; a clinical trial of treatment for comorbid alcoho...

May 2010 Highlights

30 Apr 2010

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This audio program discusses a long-term study examining how the depressive state affects the assessment of personality disorder; the pharmacogenetics...

April 2010 Highlights

31 Mar 2010

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This audio program discusses a study on structural abnormalities of the thalamus in youth with ADHD, along with an editorial about neuroanatomic findi...

March 2010 Highlights

02 Mar 2010

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This audio program discusses a case in which a patient attacked a resident to illustrate diagnostic, assessment, and treatment considerations in deali...

February 2010 Highlights

01 Feb 2010

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This audio program discusses the case of a young woman with catatonia who was treated with ECT; the results of a clinical trial that examined an inter...

January 2010 Highlights

11 Jan 2010

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This audio program discusses the successful treatment of persistent methamphetamine-induced psychosis with electroconvulsive therapy; using functional...

December 2009 Highlights

01 Dec 2009

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This audio program discusses cultural aspects of pathological gambling treatment for a woman whose beliefs about gambling are tied to her Haitian back...

November 2009 Highlights

02 Nov 2009

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This audio program discusses bipolar II postpartum depression; whether a collaborative care program for veterans with bipolar disorder increased adher...

October 2009 Highlights

30 Sep 2009

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This audio program discusses take-home messages from the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study; change in negative affective bias in depress...

September 2009 Highlights

31 Aug 2009

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This audio program discusses the treatment of depression in preschool children; the relationship between sudden death and use of stimulant medications...

August 2009 Highlights

31 Jul 2009

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This audio program discusses a successful repeat trial of ECT 2 months after an earlier ECT series induced left ventricle cardiomyopathy; manualized s...

July 2009 Highlights

01 Jul 2009

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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,...

June 2009 Highlights

01 Jun 2009

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This audio program discusses cognitive complaints and depression following mild traumatic brain injury; cognitive effects of antipsychotic drugs in fi...

May 2009 Highlights

04 May 2009

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This audio program discusses dynamic psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder; how both major depression and antidepressant treatment affect ...

April 2009 Highlights

31 Mar 2009

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This audio program discusses treatment of postpartum psychosis; predictors of suicidal events among depressed adolescents receiving antidepressant tre...

March 2009 Highlights

27 Feb 2009

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This audio program discusses the psychiatric evaluation and follow-up of patients receiving bariatric surgery; a clinical trial of CBT for patients wi...

February 2009 Highlights

29 Jan 2009

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This audio program discusses factors related to the emergence of mania during antidepressant treatment for bipolar depression; manic symptoms observed...

January 2009 Highlights

05 Jan 2009

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This audio program discusses treatment of children for whom the differential diagnosis includes bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity d...

December 2008 Highlights

01 Dec 2008

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This audio program includes a Treatment in Psychiatry feature that focuses on prison inmates with ADHD; the association between sleep disturbance and ...