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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Sep 30, 2009 • 25min
October 2009 Highlights
This audio program discusses take-home messages from the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study; change in negative affective bias in depressed patients after one subtherapeutic dose of an antidepressant; association between the familial aggregation of suicide and cluster B personality traits; associations among suicide attempts, gender, and sexual abuse; and a national survey of at-risk and binge drinking among middle-aged and elderly adults. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Aug 31, 2009 • 31min
September 2009 Highlights
This audio program discusses the treatment of depression in preschool children; the relationship between sudden death and use of stimulant medications in youths; long-term benefits from a short-term quality improvement intervention for depressed youth in primary care; identifying genes that may be relevant to major depression via an overlap between two species in altered gene expression in the anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala; the interaction between family history and prenatal exposure to infection in the causation of schizophrenia; association of substance use disorders with childhood trauma, but not with African genetic heritage, in an African American cohort. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Jul 31, 2009 • 30min
August 2009 Highlights
This audio program discusses a successful repeat trial of ECT 2 months after an earlier ECT series induced left ventricle cardiomyopathy; manualized short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy versus CBT in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder; a long-term study differentiating youths with persistent conduct problems from those whose disorder is limited to childhood; an intervention for reducing suicidal ideation and depression in older primary care patients; the relationship between autistic traits in neurotypical adults and functional connectivity in a brain region commonly implicated in social cognition. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Jul 1, 2009 • 36min
July 2009 Highlights
This audio program discusses compulsive checking as part of PTSD in veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; a new foster care network in Bucharest, Romania; the effects of bereavement 21 months after the sudden death of a parent; the 4-year course of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents; an auditory training program designed to improve verbal memory in patients with schizophrenia; and a postmortem analysis differentiating the expression of type 2 and type 3 metabotropic glutamate receptors in the brain to clarify an agonist's antipsychotic action. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Jun 1, 2009 • 26min
June 2009 Highlights
This audio program discusses cognitive complaints and depression following mild traumatic brain injury; cognitive effects of antipsychotic drugs in first-episode patients; the relationship between prenatal infection and executive dysfunction in adults with schizophrenia; activity in the basal ganglia of depressed patients during the anticipatory and consummatory phases of reward processing; whether inhibitory control can be used as a trait marker of ADHD; and a comparison of extended-release paliperidone with quetiapine and placebo for schizophrenia patients requiring hospitalization. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
May 4, 2009 • 31min
May 2009 Highlights
This audio program discusses dynamic psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder; how both major depression and antidepressant treatment affect pregnancy and neonatal outcomes; delusions in the general population; the effect of second-generation antipsychotics on patients with Alzheimer's disease; and the risk of diabetes mellitus after long-term use of antidepressants. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Mar 31, 2009 • 34min
April 2009 Highlights
This audio program discusses treatment of postpartum psychosis; predictors of suicidal events among depressed adolescents receiving antidepressant treatment after an unsuccessful trial of an SSRI; whether clinicians can recognize DSM-IV personality disorders from case descriptions based on the Five-Factor Model of personality; a genome-wide scan of families with Mexican or Central American ancestry that identified two new loci likely to harbor genes that carry a predisposition for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder; the isolation of a risk allele associated with schizophrenia; and the relationship between neural habituation in the amygdala and social impairments in autism spectrum disorders. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Feb 27, 2009 • 33min
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.
Jan 29, 2009 • 22min
February 2009 Highlights
This audio program discusses factors related to the emergence of mania during antidepressant treatment for bipolar depression; manic symptoms observed during bipolar depression among STEP-BD participants; the attitude of older adults toward enrollment of noncompetent subjects in Alzheimer's disease research; the association between cerebral deficits and clinical symptoms in antipsychotic-naive, first-episode schizophrenia patients; whether altered amygdala activity in schizophrenia is related to clinical state or to genetic risk; brain structure in schizophrenia patients with relatively intact cognitive functioning; and an odor-detection sensitivity deficit in patients with schizophrenia and its implications for cyclic AMP signaling. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
Jan 5, 2009 • 32min
January 2009 Highlights
This audio program discusses treatment of children for whom the differential diagnosis includes bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; placebo response in antidepressant trials for children; a longitudinal study comparing cortical thickness in patients with ADHD who took stimulants, patients who didn't take stimulants, and normally developing youths; an examination of the volume and shape of the basal ganglia in ADHD conducted with large-deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping; a study of disorder-specific brain dysfunction in boys with ADHD only and boys with conduct disorder only; and a report on repeat incarcerations for prisoners with serious mental illness. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.
