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January 2010 HighlightsThis audio program discusses the successful treatment of persistent methamphetamine-induced psychosis with electroconvulsive therapy; using functional MRI to differentiate activation of the amygdala in children with ADHD, bipolar disorder, and severe mood dysregulation; a longitudinal study finding criminality at age 23 to be related to poor fear conditioning at age 3; a long-term study showing that having a mother who experienced depressed mood during pregnancy increases the risk of schizo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
December 2009 HighlightsThis audio program discusses cultural aspects of pathological gambling treatment for a woman whose beliefs about gambling are tied to her Haitian background; a longitudinal study of mortality rates for eating disorders that in addition to anorexia nervosa also included bulimia nervosa and diagnoses of “eating disorders not otherwise specified,” which are sometimes considered less severe; predicting depression in the elderly through analyses that identified high-risk individuals for whom ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
November 2009 HighlightsThis audio program discusses bipolar II postpartum depression; whether a collaborative care program for veterans with bipolar disorder increased adherence to treatment guidelines over 3 years; how the design of the CATIE study affects the clinical interpretations that can be made; the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and outcomes for dually diagnosed patients; a clinical trial of vigabatrin for cocaine dependence and the ethical issues encountered in the trial. Articles can ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
September 2009 HighlightsThis audio program discusses the treatment of depression in preschool children; the relationship between sudden death and use of stimulant medications in youths; long-term benefits from a short-term quality improvement intervention for depressed youth in primary care; identifying genes that may be relevant to major depression via an overlap between two species in altered gene expression in the anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala; the interaction between family history and prenatal exposu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
October 2009 HighlightsThis audio program discusses take-home messages from the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study; change in negative affective bias in depressed patients after one subtherapeutic dose of an antidepressant; association between the familial aggregation of suicide and cluster B personality traits; associations among suicide attempts, gender, and sexual abuse; and a national survey of at-risk and binge drinking among middle-aged and elderly adults. Articles can be viewed online at www.a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
August 2009 HighlightsThis audio program discusses a successful repeat trial of ECT 2 months after an earlier ECT series induced left ventricle cardiomyopathy; manualized short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy versus CBT in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder; a long-term study differentiating youths with persistent conduct problems from those whose disorder is limited to childhood; an intervention for reducing suicidal ideation and depression in older primary care patients; the relationship between au ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
July 2009 HighlightsThis 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
June 2009 HighlightsThis audio program discusses cognitive complaints and depression following mild traumatic brain injury; cognitive effects of antipsychotic drugs in first-episode patients; the relationship between prenatal infection and executive dysfunction in adults with schizophrenia; activity in the basal ganglia of depressed patients during the anticipatory and consummatory phases of reward processing; whether inhibitory control can be used as a trait marker of ADHD; and a comparison of extended-releas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
May 2009 HighlightsThis audio program discusses dynamic psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder; how both major depression and antidepressant treatment affect pregnancy and neonatal outcomes; delusions in the general population; the effect of second-generation antipsychotics on patients with Alzheimer’s disease; and the risk of diabetes mellitus after long-term use of antidepressants. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
April 2009 HighlightsThis audio program discusses treatment of postpartum psychosis; predictors of suicidal events among depressed adolescents receiving antidepressant treatment after an unsuccessful trial of an SSRI; whether clinicians can recognize DSM-IV personality disorders from case descriptions based on the Five-Factor Model of personality; a genome-wide scan of families with Mexican or Central American ancestry that identified two new loci likely to harbor genes that carry a predisposition for schizophr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
March 2009 HighlightsThis audio program discusses the psychiatric evaluation and follow-up of patients receiving bariatric surgery; a clinical trial of CBT for patients with a variety of eating disorder diagnoses; a study that measured anticipatory activation in the amygdala and anterior cingulate of untreated patients with generalized anxiety disorder with posttreatment examination of the relationship of this activation to treatment response; a study on obsessions and compulsions in the general population from ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
February 2009 HighlightsThis audio program discusses factors related to the emergence of mania during antidepressant treatment for bipolar depression; manic symptoms observed during bipolar depression among STEP-BD participants; the attitude of older adults toward enrollment of noncompetent subjects in Alzheimer’s disease research; the association between cerebral deficits and clinical symptoms in antipsychotic-naive, first-episode schizophrenia patients; whether altered amygdala activity in schizophrenia is rel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
January 2009 HighlightsThis audio program discusses treatment of children for whom the differential diagnosis includes bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; placebo response in antidepressant trials for children; a longitudinal study comparing cortical thickness in patients with ADHD who took stimulants, patients who didn’t take stimulants, and normally developing youths; an examination of the volume and shape of the basal ganglia in ADHD conducted with large-deformation diffeomorphic m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
December 2008 HighlightsThis audio program includes a Treatment in Psychiatry feature that focuses on prison inmates with ADHD; the association between sleep disturbance and the recurrence of depression among older adults; melatonin circadian rhythms in pregnancy and the postpartum period among depressed women and those with a personal or family history of depression; effect of interpersonal and social rhythm therapy on occupational functioning for patients with bipolar disorder; trauma, resilience, and recovery i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
November 2008 HighlightsThis audio program features the role of culture in psychodynamic psychotherapy; two clinical trials of antipsychotic medications for children and adolescents; a clinical trial of naltrexone in the treatment of amphetamine dependence; a diagnostic study that identified differences and similarities between depression following bereavement and depression associated with other stressful life events; and an analysis indicating that cognitive function in older adults is influenced by the interact ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
July 2008 HighlightsThis audio program presents a case discussing the resumption of clozapine treatment after development of neutropenia, antipsychotic treatment of Alzheimers disease symptoms, a treatment decision tree for depression in elderly patients, and a possible physiologic marker of panic disorder. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
August 2008 HighlightsThis audio program presents the diagnosis and treatment of Asbergers syndrome, new treatments for schizophrenia, the pharmacokinetics of aripiprazole, the relationship of cognition and psychopathology to functional impairment in schizophrenia, brain anatomy comparisons of first-episode and chronic schizophrenia, and new evidence of frontal lobe dysfunction in schizophrenia. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
September 2008 HighlightsThis audio program highlights the treatment of body dysmorphic disorder, three articles on the effect of parental mood disorders--and their treatment--on child psychopathology outcomes, risk for nicotine dependence, remission from alcohol dependence, and a genome screen for quantitative trait loci influencing schizophrenia and neurocognitive phenotypes. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
October 2008 HighlightsThis audio program features a discussion of drug treatment of breast cancer and depression; highlights a study in which olanzapine was used to treat low body weight and obsessive thinking in women with anorexia nervosa; examines whether compulsive hoarding is a symptom of OCD, a distinct syndrome, or both; discusses a clinical trial of adjunctive aripiprazole for bipolar mania patients partially nonresponsive to valproate or lithium monotherapy; and compares two sets of criteria for diagnos ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website