How about for this week some Clinical Guidelines for Schizophrenia? These guidelines discuss pharmacotherapy and interventions for Schizophrenia, and also touch on refractory cases. Once you click on the link, it's free to save to your desktop.
Are you interested in Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment? Well Dialogues of Neuroscience has a whole issue devoted to this topic which you can download for free. Go here: http://www.dialogues-cns.org/brochures/41/html/41_3.asp and click on the Adobe icon on the top right.
Do your patients have substance abuse problems? Don't forget the TIPS (Treatment Improvement Protocols) provided by SAMSHA! For example, here's one on Addressing Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Substance Abuse Treatment.
Okay, without further ado, here are this week's articles:
"How to select pharmocological treatments to manage recidivism risk in sex offenders", Current Psychiatry, vol. 8(10), 60-66, 2009.
Provides different pharmacological treatment recommendations for sex offenders depending on their individual "patient factors" as well as the severity of their offense. Considers both hormonal and nonhormonal medications. Discusses the different drugs that can be used to manage such offenders. Finally, this article briefly touches on how to gauge the risk of re-offense.
If you are interested in receiving this article, send me an e-mail. Or, alternatively, you can go to Current Psychiatry Online and register and look at the articles there. Registration is free--no credit card no. is asked for, just your name and e-mail address for the most part.
"Management of Schizophrenia with Suicide Risk", Psychiatric Clinics of North America, vol. 32(4), 863-884.
Abstract: "Suicidal behavior remains a major source of morbidity and mortality among schizophrenics. The National Institute of Mental Health Longitudinal Study of Chronic Schizophrenia found that over a mean of 6 years, 38% of the patients had at least one suicide attempt and 57% admitted to substantial suicidal ideation. Suicide is also a major issue among inpatients with serious implications for clinical practice and patient-doctor relationships. The management of schizophrenic patients with suicide risk remains a difficult area for clinicians despite attempts to better understand it by gathering experts in the field. This article discusses the frequency of suicidal behavior in schizophrenia, offers a model for understanding it, and discusses various aspects of the management of the at-risk schizophrenic patient."
If you are interested in this article, send me an e-mail.
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