Category Archives: E-learning

How To Use eBooks In eLearning

        eBooks are portable, printable, and multiplatform-friendly. When they first arrived on the literary scene they were merely electronic copies of the original text. Today, they are fully interactive and immersive, making them a welcome addition to eLearning courses. At a moment’s notice, online learners can download an eBook onto their laptop, tablet, or […]

Rediscovering clozapine: Adverse effects develop—what should you do now?

Current Psychiatry 2016 August;15(8):40-46,48-49. Brianne M. Newman, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Saint Louis University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri William J. Newman, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Saint Louis University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri Member of the Editorial Board of Current Psychiatry   Clozapine is […]

O Psychiatrists Screen for abnormal blood glucose, diabetes!

USPSTF update: Screen all adults, ages 40 to 70 years, who are overweight or obese. Consider screening younger patients who have specific personal or family risk factors. J Fam Pract. 2016 July;65(7):481-483. Doug Campos-Outcalt, MD, MPA Medical Director, Mercy Care Plan, Phoenix, Ariz [email protected] In December 2015, the United States Preventive Services Task Force updated […]

New Brain Map Charts Fresh Territory

Megan Brooks July 21, 2016 A team of neuroscientists has charted the most complex and precise map of the human cerebral cortex to date, and it has revealed almost 100 new regions. These findings will provide a greater understanding, as well as advance the study, of brain disorders such as autism, schizophrenia, dementia, and epilepsy. […]

هل نقص فيتامين ب12 هو السبب؟

كل ما تقدم بك العمر تقل قدرة جسمك  على امتصاص فيتامين ب 12  أو تبطأ أو تتناقص – و لكنه ليس تقدم العمر وحده أيضا عدم تناول اللحوم الصحية تناول بعض الأدوية مثل عقار الجلوكوفاج  و عقاقير الحموضة و مختلف حبوب المعدة جراحات المعدة بكل أشكالها الريجيم كل هذه سيدخلك في مشاعر مختلفة و أعراض مرضية […]

FDA approves first buprenorphine implant for treatment of opioid dependence

Buprenorphine is a semisynthetic opioid derivative of thebaine. It is a mixed partial agonist opioid receptor modulator that is used to treat opioid addiction in higher dosages, to control moderate acute pain in non-opioid-tolerant individuals in lower dosages and to control moderate chronic pain in even smaller doses.[3] It is available in a variety of […]

FDA Warns About New Impulse-control Problems

Aripiprazole (Abilify, Abilify Maintena, Aristada): Drug Safety Communication – FDA Warns About New Impulse-control Problems [Posted 05/03/2016] AUDIENCE: Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Patient ISSUE: FDA is warning that compulsive or uncontrollable urges to gamble, binge eat, shop, and have sex have been reported with the use of the antipsychotic drug aripiprazole (Abilify, Abilify Maintena, Aristada, and […]

Schizophrenia

‘Positive’ and ‘negative’ symptoms Who develops schizophrenia? When people first become unwell Diagnosis Treatment and support Peer support and self management Physical health problems A new name for schizophrenia? ‘Positive’ and ‘negative’ symptoms People who have a diagnosis of schizophrenia at times experience the symptoms of psychosis – delusions, hallucinations and muddled thinking. Mental health […]

Psychotic depression

What is psychotic depression? Some people who have severe clinical depression (sometimes called major depressive disorder) experience hallucinations and delusions. They are said to have psychotic depression. People who have severe clinical depression are in a depressed mood most of the day, practically every day, and can lose interest in almost everything. Mental health professionals […]