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2016-2025
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2019
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2018
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2017
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2017
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2015
Stanford Medicine
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Rhode Island Hospital
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2006
Mental health symptoms and disorders are common among elite athletes, may have sport related manifestations within this population impair performance. cannot be separated from physical health, as evidenced by mental increasing the risk of injury delaying subsequent recovery. There no evidence or consensus based guidelines for diagnosis management in athletes. Diagnosis must differentiate character traits particular to athletes psychosocial maladaptations.Management strategies should address...
The National Institute of Mental Health initiated the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) program to evaluate effectiveness antipsychotic drugs in typical settings and populations so that study results will be maximally useful routine clinical situations. CATIE schizophrenia trial blends features efficacy studies large, simple trials create a pragmatic provide extensive information about drug over at least 18 months.
The relative benefit of adding a structured psychoeducational intervention to standard medication treatment for married patients with bipolar disorder and their spouses was assessed. Patients were randomly assigned receive either management or plus marital an 11-month period. Patients' symptoms, functioning, adherence regimens measured at study entry 11 months. Significant effects favoring the combined treatments observed overall patient functioning but not symptom levels. associated...
Objective The purpose of this study was to determine whether metformin promotes weight loss in overweight outpatients with chronic schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. Method In a double-blind study, 148 clinically stable, (body mass index [BMI] ≥27) disorder were randomly assigned receive 16 weeks placebo. Metformin titrated up 1,000 mg twice daily, as tolerated. All patients continued their prestudy medications, and all received weekly diet exercise counseling. primary outcome...
Abstract Sports psychiatry is a young field of medicine and that focuses on mental health among athletes, sports exercise within disorders. However, the development its fields activity vary from region to are not uniform yet. role psychiatrists have also already been discussed in medicine, medical teams competitive elite sports. A definition psychiatry, activity, psychiatrist, essential knowledge, skills, abilities ( plus attitudes, eKSA +A ) psychiatrist were developed as part an...
Limited randomized, controlled trial data exist on possible differences between atypical antipsychotics in efficacy, overall tolerability, and important indices of health status. The authors compared the efficacy tolerability ziprasidone olanzapine treatment acutely ill inpatients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.In this 6-week, multicenter, double-blind, parallel-design, flexible-dose trial, patients were randomly assigned to receive (N=136) (N=133). Primary measures...
Schizophrenia is a chronic, debilitating psychotic disorder that affects 1% of adults. Symptoms the illness are highly variable from person to but typically include "positive" symptoms (delusions, hallucinations, thought disorganization), "negative" (blunted affect, social dysfunction, lack motivation), cognitive impairments, and mood disturbance. Recurrence active psychosis, progression symptoms, deterioration in all areas life function rule. Given combination onset early adulthood...
Background. We report here a study examining the relationships between insight and psychopathology, cognitive performance, brain volume co-morbid depression in 251 patients experiencing first episode of psychosis, who were then randomly assigned to 2 years double-blind treatment with either olanzapine or haloperidol. Method. Repeated measures obtained at baseline 12, 24, 52 104 weeks by Insight Treatment Attitudes Questionnaire (ITAQ). Results. Older age, female gender white ethnicity...
This study examined the prevalence and correlates of concomitant psychotropic medications use anticholinergic drugs to treat schizophrenia.Concomitant medication was studied at baseline for participants in Clinical Antipsychotic Trials Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) trial.Of 1,380 patients with data, 82 percent were taking medications. Of this group, 6 two antipsychotics (one first generation one second generation); 38 percent, antidepressants; 22 anxiolytics; 4 lithium, 15 other mood...
Driven by financial pressures, the sole focus of psychiatric inpatient treatment has become safety and crisis stabilization. Data are lacking on outcomes ultrashort-stay hospitalizations; however, such stays may diminish opportunities for a sustained recovery. In absence an evidence base to guide clinicians policy makers, mental health professionals have ethical obligation promote what they consider be best practice. This Open Forum focuses need reconsider current model hospitalization in...
Providing psychiatric consultation to elite athletes presents unique and complex issues. These patients present with multifaceted medical, psychological, performance concerns. We provide the first report of professional ethical quandaries that arise in treating ways address them.We identified studies through a MEDLINE search. Search terms included following, individually combination: psychiatry, athletes, sports, sport mental illness, major depressive disorder, depression, bipolar suicide,...
Introduction: In the context of a large, random assignment, controlled study evaluating relative effectiveness and safety antipsychotic medication (CATIE), we examined relationship between treatment outcome 2 family variables: their presence ability to support adherence. Methods: Post hoc, assessed 50 patients (40 whom had families) families by dividing them into groups. The first family/significant other, available mostly supportive, work collaboratively on adherence with team (n = 27)....
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