When I was first prescribed lithium, my psychiatrist told me to take it once daily just before bed, and to get a blood test measuring the trough serum level 12 hours after the previous dose. I was troubled by these instructions. Firstly, I did not understand why my psychiatrist was using the term trough to apply to a lithium serum concentration about halfway between peak and trough serum…
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The risk of clozapine-induced agranulocytosis decreases steeply over time but might be persistently greater than that of non-clozapine antipsychotics. This long-term risk excess seems small…
ImPuls is an efficacious transdiagnostic adjunctive treatment in outpatient mental health care. Our findings suggest that exercise therapy should be implemented in outpatient mental health…
Globally, 75% of depressive, bipolar, and psychotic disorders emerge by age 25 years. However, these disorders are often preceded by non-specific symptoms or attenuated clinical…
In much contemporary psychiatric training and practice, there is a strong emphasis on the audible or perceptual quality and externality of auditory verbal hallucinations in…
This is the first meta-analysis to estimate physical alongside psychiatric multimorbidity prevalence, showing that these are common in people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and bipolar disorder.…
Jinah Park and Whanhee Lee join Sophia Davis to discuss the effects of increasing ambient temperature on hospital admissions for people with mental disorders and…
Lesson 1: When your beloved, who is at best mildly interested in your basketball team, the Boston Celtics, knows more about them that you do,…
It could be said that Judy Bass had a global outlook from an early age. She grew up in East Lansing, MI, USA, where her…
People with intellectual disability, autism, and mental disorders should be included in groups considered at a high-risk for heat exposure, and heat adaptation policies should…
