Review Articles

Review Articles

Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

1. Transition of cannabinoid-induced psychosis to schizophrenia or bipolar disorder
- Cannabinoids and Psychosis

2. Listening to voices: The use of phenomenology to differentiate malingered from genuine auditory verbal hallucinations by Simon McCarthy-Jones , Phillip J. Resnick
- malingering_of_hearing_voices.pdf

Bipolar and Related Disorders

1. Open-label randomized trial on Bipolar disorder showing that combination of lithium and valproate better than monotherapy for prevention of relapse. Presented for journal club on 8-23-20. - The BALANCE trial balance.pptx

2. Review of mood stabilizer medications and discussing how the term misnomer is a misleading term. The paper goes through the four indications for bipolar disorder. "What is a mood stabilizer?"

Depressive Disorders

Substance Related and Addictive Disorders

Personality Disorders

1. This is an article I like on the therapeutic alliance in personality disorders
- the_therapeutic_alliance_in_the_treatment_of.2.pdf
-https:pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15803042/ ===Miscellaneous=== 1.Translated work published in 1913. Emil Kraepelin first described what is now known as schizophrenia with the term Dementia Praecox. -Emil Kraepelin - Lectures of Clinical Psychiatry - 2. Here is an article showing decreased risk of suicide after hospital discharge with self-referral.
- Deisenhammer EA, Behrndt EM, Kemmler G, Haring C, Miller C. Suicide Risk Factors in Patients Recently Discharged From a Psychiatric Hospital: A Case-Control Study. J Clin Psychiatry. 2019;80(5):18m12702. Published 2019 Sep 17. doi:10.4088/JCP.18m12702 - pubmed link 3. A quick read on using EEGs in non-epilepsy situations, such as delirium. - eegotherthanseizures.pdf 4.Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on efficacy and safety of ECT (included 73 RCTs)
-ECT 5. NEJM Review Article on Serotonin Syndrome - Libby Zion Case - Residency programs in all specialties have an 80 hour work week limit 1) in place. Libby Zion came in to an emergency room and serotonin syndrome was not thought about by the residents. She died and the father who was a NY times reporter pursued a legal case with concern about the extreme work hours for residents resulting in poor patient care. The S drive has an article on how inpatient commitment works: S:\managed\Psychiatric Services\ed materials\Legal Documents\HOW INPATIENT COMMITMENT WORKS.docx
Texas Mental Health Code documents are also in that folder
* 4 hour letter * Emergency Detention * Mental Health Warrant

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on average for a month