Evidence-Based Reviews
Evidence-Based Reviews
Substance abuse: 12 principles to more effective outpatient treatment
Addiction is a complex biopsychosocial problem that requires long-term outpatient treatment. Even after extended abstinence, individuals with...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Tricyclics: Still solid performers for the savvy psychiatrist
Tricyclics played an important therapeutic role in the past and are still valuable treatments for depression, anxiety, pain syndromes, and other...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Tips to individualize drug therapy
What help can we offer parents of children with ADHD? Can adults hope to conquer chronic attention deficits that interfere with on-the-job and...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Short-term cognitive therapy shows promise for dysthymia
Short-term cognitive therapy offers a potentially effective approach to treating the chronically depressed patient.
Evidence-Based Reviews
Postpartum depression: Is there an Andrea Yates in your practice?
The tragedy of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother convicted of methodically drowning her five children in the bathtub, provides stark evidence for the...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Psychiatric illness or thyroid disease? Don’t be misled by false lab tests
Thyroid dysfunction is often in the differential diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. The author reviews the practical aspects of workup, diagnosis...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Strategies to prevent fatal arrhythmias in patients taking antipsychotics
Concern has grown about the cardiac effects of antipsychotics as more is learned about rare but deadly torsade de pointes. Which patients require...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Defusing patient violence
Psychiatrists and their staffs—particularly those in emergency services—face the constant threat of patient aggression. A doctor-patient encounter...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Defusing patient violence
Psychiatrists and their staffs—particularly those in emergency services—face the constant threat of patient aggression. A doctor-patient encounter...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Update on bipolar disorder: How to better predict response to maintenance therapy
What does current evidence show regarding maintenance treatment with lithium, divalproex, carbamazepine, lamotrigine, or other agents? How well...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Calming agitation with words, not drugs: 10 commandments for safety
With a little practice, you can improve your skills at verbal de-escalation of the acutely agitated patient, learn how to avoid unnecessary...