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Misdiagnosing bipolar depression as major depressive disorder
During my residency, I was never urged to distinguish if a depression is unipolar or bipolar because the treatment was the same!
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A saga of psychiatric serendipities…
…and of evolutions, paradigm shifts, and radical breakthroughs in psychiatric therapies.
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Let’s tear down the silos and reunify psychiatry and neurology!
Psychiatry is as much anchored in the brain as its sister specialty neurology is.
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Haloperidol clearly is neurotoxic. Should it be banned?
Why use an old and harmful antipsychotic when safer alternatives are available?
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Beyond dopamine: The ‘other’ effects of antipsychotics
Ask any psychiatrist how antipsychotics (APs) work and the overwhelming response will be “by blocking dopamine receptors.”
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Staging psychiatric disorders: A clinico-biologic model
It’s time for psychiatry to adopt a staging schema based on clinical progression and neurobiology
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Pleiotropy of psychiatric disorders will reinvent DSM
Momentous discoveries about the shared neurogenetics of psychiatric disorders eventually will render DSM-5 obsolete
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Brain and mind assessment in psychiatry
It’s time we comprehensively assess our patients’ brains, not just describe their minds.
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Lab tests for psychiatric disorders: Few clinicians are aware of them
There are 273 biomarkers for schizophrenia, but none are included in DSM-5
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The delirium/dementia treatment paradox
Older patients with delirium routinely are treated with antipsychotics, but those with dementia are not
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Why are metabolic monitoring guidelines being ignored?
There is no excuse for failing to provide metabolic monitoring for patients receiving antipsychotics
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Psychiatry’s ‘swords of Damocles’
With unified collaboration, we can overcome the threats that hang over psychiatry