March 2009 Highlights

This audio program discusses the psychiatric evaluation and follow-up of patients receiving bariatric surgery; a clinical trial of CBT for patients with a variety of eating disorder diagnoses; a study that measured anticipatory activation in the amygdala and anterior cingulate of untreated patients with generalized anxiety disorder with posttreatment examination of the relationship of this activation to treatment response; a study on obsessions and compulsions in the general population from following members of a birth cohort until age 32; the connections between the use of SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy and the risk of gestational hypertension; the ramifications of giving placebo to depressed adolescents in clinical trials. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.