Clinical Psychiatry

Clinical Psychiatry

Recent psychiatric literature is reviewed to demonstrate the general state of clinical psychiatry. The advent of chemical therapies requires that psychiatrists receive comprehensive training in organic and dynamic approaches. Consultative collaboration between psychiatrists and physicians is encouraged though there is also a conspicuous need for physician training in consultative techniques a...

Annals of Clinical Psychiatry

m e t h o d s : This review discusses the pharmacologic activity and poten­ tial effectiveness of lithium in the context of Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD), the 2 most prominent neurodegenerative dis­ orders in the United States. The toxicides of lithium, including lithiuminduced extrapyramidal symptoms (LL-EPS) and cognitive impairments at therapeutic blood levels, are disc...

Modern Clinical Psychiatry

Annals of Clinical Psychiatry

AACP.com Annals of Clinical Psychiatry | Vol. 25 No. 2 | May 2013 153 Cocaine abuse epidemics come and go. Some of us remember the cocaine epidemic of the 1980s that peaked in 1985 and produced an estimated 2.5 million lifetime stimulant abusers (p 3). Some may assume cocaine abuse was a big problem but hopefully isn’t big anymore. Unfortunately, it still is, and we are facing yet another epide...

Clinical pathways in psychiatry.

This editorial summarises the literature on the use of care pathways in psychiatry. Further, it considers the case-mix clusters used in care pathways in relation to health service financial tariff and currency systems, and also reviews the evidence for the effectiveness of clinical pathways.