American Journal of Psychiatry Audio
American Journal of Psychiatry
Each episode of AJP Audio brings you an in-depth look at one of the articles featured in that month's issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry, the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association. Wide-ranging interviews with article authors cover the background, rationale, main findings, and future implications of the research.
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This podcast is subject to the Terms of Use at ww.psychiatry.org. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual speakers only and do not necessarily represent the views of the American Psychiatric Association, its officers, trustees, or members. The content of this podcast is provided for general informational purposes only and is not intended as, and shall not be understood or construed as, medical or any other type of professional advice nor does it represent any statement of the standard of care. We strongly recommend that any listener follow the advice of physicians directly involved in their care and contact their local emergency response number for any medical emergency. The information within this podcast is provided as-is and is not guaranteed to be correct, complete, or accurate.
Episodes
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Aug 9, 2010 • 28min
August 2010 Highlights
This audio program discusses two-phase psychotherapy for PTSD related to childhood abuse, rapid versus gradual discontinuation of antidepressants, augmentation of antidepressants with SAMe, and endogenous opioid function in borderline personality disorder. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Jul 2, 2010 • 32min
July 2010 Highlights
This audio program discusses the clinical case of a patient with both psychotic and obsessive-compulsive symptoms; the treatment of adolescent depression including 24-week outcomes of the TORDIA study; use of long-term fluoxetine versus lithium for relapse prevention in bipolar II disorder patients; the rationale and features of the Research Domain Criteria, a proposed framework for research on pathophysiology to inform future schemes for classification of mental disorders. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
May 28, 2010 • 32min
June 2010 Highlights
This audio program discusses the use of medications for three different types of alcohol dependence; a clinical trial of treatment for comorbid alcohol dependence and depression in which the combination of sertraline and naltrexone was compared with the individual drugs and placebo; a trial of risperidone for maintenance treatment of schizophrenia; recommendations for antipsychotic dosing based on international expert consensus; a 10-year prospective study that tracked remission and recovery from borderline personality disorder in a group of hospitalized patients; a review of the evidence for a dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Apr 30, 2010 • 26min
May 2010 Highlights
This audio program discusses a long-term study examining how the depressive state affects the assessment of personality disorder; the pharmacogenetics of antidepressant response; the association between depression and incident diabetes; how brain activity of patients with generalized anxiety disorder reacts to emotional conflict; and the neuropsychiatric aspects of lupus in a patient case that also involved erotomania and the Geschwind syndrome. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Mar 31, 2010 • 31min
April 2010 Highlights
This audio program discusses a study on structural abnormalities of the thalamus in youth with ADHD, along with an editorial about neuroanatomic findings for the disorder; an 11-year longitudinal study of adult outcomes for girls with ADHD; a study demonstrating that variation in a proto-oncogene is associated with schizophrenia and general cognitive ability; the relationship between neurocognitive functioning and schizophrenia in African Americans. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Mar 2, 2010 • 31min
March 2010 Highlights
This audio program discusses a case in which a patient attacked a resident to illustrate diagnostic, assessment, and treatment considerations in dealing with violent patients; a clinical trial that compared fluoxetine monotherapy and three combinations of mirtazapine and other antidepressants; recovery from bipolar depression, specifically the impact of substance use disorders; the effect of modafinil on sleep in chronic cocaine users; psychiatric conditions following traumatic injury. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Feb 1, 2010 • 28min
February 2010 Highlights
This audio program discusses the case of a young woman with catatonia who was treated with ECT; the results of a clinical trial that examined an intervention designed to improve provision of primary medical care for patients in community mental health settings; the results of a clinical trial that compared several doses of long-acting injectable olanzapine for maintenance treatment of patients with schizophrenia; a 30-year prospective study of a New Zealand birth cohort that was able to create a timeline of cognitive deficits during the childhood and early adolescence of subjects who later developed schizophrenia; a long-term study that compared the suicide rates of people with HIV in the years before and after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy; a genetic study that found a relationship between suicidal events and two polymorphisms of a gene affecting the HPA axis in adolescents being treated for depression. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Jan 11, 2010 • 34min
January 2010 Highlights
This audio program discusses the successful treatment of persistent methamphetamine-induced psychosis with electroconvulsive therapy; using functional MRI to differentiate activation of the amygdala in children with ADHD, bipolar disorder, and severe mood dysregulation; a longitudinal study finding criminality at age 23 to be related to poor fear conditioning at age 3; a long-term study showing that having a mother who experienced depressed mood during pregnancy increases the risk of schizophrenia in offspring with a family history of psychosis; and a clinical trial of integrated treatment for PTSD and substance use that tracked the temporal relationship of improvement in the two conditions. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Dec 1, 2009 • 32min
December 2009 Highlights
This audio program discusses cultural aspects of pathological gambling treatment for a woman whose beliefs about gambling are tied to her Haitian background; a longitudinal study of mortality rates for eating disorders that in addition to anorexia nervosa also included bulimia nervosa and diagnoses of "eating disorders not otherwise specified," which are sometimes considered less severe; predicting depression in the elderly through analyses that identified high-risk individuals for whom prevention was likely to have the greatest health benefit with the lowest implementation burden; a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical treatment trial of adjunctive divalproex for persistent aggressive behavior in children with ADHD following an initial optimized stimulant regimen. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Nov 2, 2009 • 34min
November 2009 Highlights
This audio program discusses bipolar II postpartum depression; whether a collaborative care program for veterans with bipolar disorder increased adherence to treatment guidelines over 3 years; how the design of the CATIE study affects the clinical interpretations that can be made; the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and outcomes for dually diagnosed patients; a clinical trial of vigabatrin for cocaine dependence and the ethical issues encountered in the trial. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
