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Interesting open-label randomized trial on Bipolar disorder showing that combination of lithium and valproate better than monotherapy for prevention of relapse. - The BALANCE trial
This is an article I like on the therapeutic alliance in personality disorders
- therapeutic_alliance_in_personality_disorders_-_bender.pdf
-https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15803042/
This is an article on transition of cannabinoid-induced psychosis to schizophrenia or bipolar disorder
- Cannabinoids and Psychosis
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
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
A quick read on using EEGs in non-epilepsy situations, such as delirium. - eegotherthanseizures.pdf
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