Changes in psychopharmacotherapy for patients with schizophrenia in a psychiatric institution in Japan: A 12-year prescription survey pre- and post-introduction of clozapine
Asian J Psychiatr. 2024 Apr 9;96:104047. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2024.104047. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPsychopharmacotherapy for patients with schizophrenia in Japan has a long history of polypharmacy, which is rare worldwide but remains a critical problem. One reason for this is that clozapine was not available in Japan until 2009. We aimed to investigate the changes in psychopharmacotherapy in patients with schizophrenia over 12 years pre- and post-introduction of clozapine to clarify how psychopharmacotherapy for patients with schizophrenia has changed with the introduction of clozapine. We retrospectively collected dat...
Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry - April 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kohei Kitagawa Shusuke Uekusa Yuki Hanai Itsuki Kimura Masaru Tsukahara Azusa Kagawa Kenji Sasaoka Yui Sakishiro Ayaka Miyake Yuki Watanabe Daiki Baba Masafumi Kodama Yoshiki Kishi Norihito Yamada Takashi Yoshio Kazuhiro Matsuo Source Type: research
Not reinventing the wheel: Nesting suicide prevention and awareness activities within existing health programs
Asian J Psychiatr. 2024 Apr 16;96:104049. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2024.104049. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38640550 | DOI:10.1016/j.ajp.2024.104049 (Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry)
Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry - April 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jilisha Gnanadhas Anish V Cherian Sujita Kumar Kar Vikas Menon Source Type: research
Promoting Collaborative CL Psychiatry and Palliative Care Education via Combined Fellow-focused Case Conferences
1. Describe the benefits of integrating palliative care and psychiatry education and practice.2. Apply a collaborative model of training between palliative care and psychiatry to educational initiatives. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Dinaz Irani, Craig D. Blinderman, Jon Levenson, Sara S. Nash, Mary Callahan, Peter Shapiro, Daniel Shalev Source Type: research
Supporting the Ambulatory Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Team with an Embedded Psychiatrist: A Case Series
1. To describe collaboration between palliative care clinicians and a psychiatrist in providing ambulatory palliative care.2. Participants will self-report the ability to advocate and collaborate based upon their shared experiences with their colleagues in efforts to embrace the true meaning of whole person care which includes psychological/psychiatric support in the palliative care setting. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Elizabeth Schack, Daniel Shalev, Peggy A. Murphy Source Type: research
Pearls from Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry to Aid Pediatric and Adult Palliative Care
1. Identify three neurocognitive, social-emotional, or psychological developmental factors influencing common challenges experienced with AYA patients.2. Describe two approaches to AYA patients that incorporate their unique developmental needs that could improve patient engagement and relationship with palliative providers. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Natalie Jacobowski, Linda Radbill, Natalie P. Truba Source Type: research
Adapting the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) to Palliative Care: Lessons from Psychiatry
1. Describe a model of palliative care delivery utilizing principles of the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM).2. Explore barriers to and benefits of adopting the Collaborative Care Model to delivery of outpatient palliative care medicine. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Joshua A. Smith, Enrique Ceppi, Rynita Bohler, Emily Furnish, Reid Hartmann, Sara Kleinschmidt, Corey Keeton Source Type: research
Bogetz Lectureship: A Primer in Palliative Psychiatry
1. Compare and contrast the differences between grief, prolonged grief disorder, and demoralization.2. Identify the differences between adjustment disorder with depressive features, major depressive disorder, and depression due to a general medical condition. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Allison Jordan, William Johnson, Alison Cole, Erin Osborn-Edwards, Nicole Patterson Source Type: research
Primary Mental Health Competencies for Palliative Medicine Physicians: A Consensus-Prioritized List
1. List 5 mental health competencies in which they already have expertise.2. Identify 2 potential sources for further learning when a physician has a relative lack of expertise in a mental health competency (i.e. a licensed clinical social worker on their existing clinical team, journal articles in the palliative medicine or mental health literature, a consult-liaison psychiatrist with shared patient populations, etc). (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Lisa Podgurski, Keri O. Brenner, Danielle Chammas, Neha Goyal, Maria Lapid, Sue E. Morris, William F. Pirl, Leah B. Rosenberg, Bridget Sumser, Ben Thompson, Daniel Shalev Source Type: research
Bringing Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy from Psychiatry to Palliative Care
1. Attendees will be able to identify research gaps pertaining to palliative care that exist in the current psychiatric contexts of psychedelic assisted therapy.2. Attendees will be able to evaluate current strategies aimed at addressing research gaps pertaining to palliative care that exist in the current psychiatric contexts of psychedelic assisted therapy. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Stacy M. Fischer, Ali J. Zarrabi, Yvan Beaussant Source Type: research
Intranasal Esketamine for Treatment Resistant Depression with Suicidal Ideation in Cancer Patients: A Case Series
1. Participants will self-report the ability to discuss TRD and SI as significant psychiatric comorbidities associated with cancer.2. Participants will self-report the ability to discuss applications of IN esketamine for TRD and SI in patients with cancer. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: William Alexander, Mercy Tomy, AmyAllen Case, Sanjay Gupta Source Type: research
Real-world evidence from a retrospective study on suicide during depression: clinical characteristics, treatment patterns and disease burden
Suicide stands as both a primary symptom and the direst outcome of major depressive disorder (MDD). The scarcity of effective treatment strategies makes managing MDD patients with suicide especially challengin... (Source: BMC Psychiatry)
Source: BMC Psychiatry - April 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Han Wang, Nan Lyu, Juan Huang, Bingbing Fu, Lili Shang, Fan Yang, Qian Zhao and Gang Wang Tags: Research Source Type: research
The comorbid network characteristics of anxiety and depressive symptoms among Chinese college freshmen
This study aimed to investigate the interplay between anxiety and depressive symptoms in Chinese college freshmen using the causal system perspective (CSP), which differs from the traditional common cause pers... (Source: BMC Psychiatry)
Source: BMC Psychiatry - April 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jie Luo, Dong-Li Bei, Chuanzhang Zheng, Jie Jin, Chengkui Yao, Jianhua Zhao and Jie Gong Tags: Research Source Type: research
Development and initial validation of the cannabis-related psychosis risk literacy scale (CPRL): a multinational psychometric study
Public education efforts to address and reduce potential harms from cannabis use in Arab countries are either slow or inexistent, and do not follow the steadily increasing trends of cannabis use in Arab youth.... (Source: BMC Psychiatry)
Source: BMC Psychiatry - April 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Amthal Alhuwailah, Hanaa Ahmed Mohamed Shuwiekh, Manel Stambouli, Abir Hakiri, Majda Cheour, Alexandre Andrade Loch and Souheil Hallit Tags: Research Source Type: research
Asparagine reduces the risk of schizophrenia: a bidirectional two-sample mendelian randomization study of aspartate, asparagine and schizophrenia
Despite ongoing research, the underlying causes of schizophrenia remain unclear. Aspartate and asparagine, essential amino acids, have been linked to schizophrenia in recent studies, but their causal relations... (Source: BMC Psychiatry)
Source: BMC Psychiatry - April 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Huang-Hui Liu, Yao Gao, Dan Xu, Xin-Zhe Du, Si-Meng Wei, Jian-Zhen Hu, Yong Xu and Liu Sha Tags: Research Source Type: research
Healthcare Utilization and Its Correlates in Comorbid Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Generalized Anxiety Disorder
This study investigated the healthcare utilization and medical expenditure of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and identified the associated factors. The healthcare utilization and expenditure of T2DM patients with (case group) and without (control group) GAD between 2002 and 2013 were examined using the population-based Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. Healthcare utilization included outpatient visits and hospitalization; health expenditure included outpatient, inpatient, and total medical expenditure. Moreover, nonpsychiatric healthcare utilization and me...
Source: Psychiatric Quarterly - April 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
