Reviews of Note
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Topics include drugs based on endogenous cannabinoids, reasons for bias in research, psychosocial treatment for psychosis, alternative medicines, SSRI safety, and advances in addiction medicine.
Reviews of Note: An Update on the Neurobiology of Addiction
Psychiatry Feature
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Chronic overstimulation of dopaminergic centers appears to skew systems for brain reward and for planning.
By Steven Dubovsky, MD
February 22, 2006
Emerging Perspectives: New Stories of How Genes and Life Events Interact in Depression
Psychiatry Feature
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Conflicting findings might eventually lead to elegant, more accurate explanations of how the serotonin system is involved in depression.
By Joel Yager, MD
January 25, 2006
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In this occasional column, Journal Watch Psychiatry editors provide brief comments about review articles as another way to assist readers who wish to keep abreast . . .
Emerging Perspectives: Does VNS Work in Refractory Depression?
Psychiatry Feature
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Three studies provide inconclusive evidence.
By Steven Dubovsky, MD
November 2, 2005
Emerging Perspectives: Epigenesis — How Experience Sculpts Genes
Psychiatry Feature
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Epigenetic shifts over time may hold clues to the mystery of why psychiatric illness is not identical in monozygotic twin pairs.
By Peter Roy-Byrne, MD
August 17, 2005
Emerging Perspectives: New Ways to Predict and Treat Alzheimer Disease
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Significant advances are being made in the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD), amelioration of its symptoms, and understanding of the role of mild cognitive impairment . . .
By Peter Roy-Byrne, MD, and Joel Yager, MD
May 18, 2005
Emerging Perspectives: The Disconnection Hypothesis and Cognitive Dysmetrias in Schizophrenia
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Several articles and an editorial in the March issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry point to a new paradigm that might account for the . . .
By Joel Yager, MD
April 20, 2005
Reviews of Note
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In this occasional column, Journal Watch Psychiatry editors provide brief comments about review articles as another way to assist readers who wish to keep abreast . . .
Reviews of Note
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In this occasional column, Journal Watch Psychiatry editors provide brief comments about review articles as another way to assist readers wishing to keep abreast of . . .
