Showing posts with label schizophrenia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label schizophrenia. Show all posts
Friday, April 18, 2025

Cannabis and Psychosis in the 1980s - and since...

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  I thought I would commemorate one of the first papers I read on this issue when I became an acute care psychiatrist in 1988 (1).  It was...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Are there potential problems in the latest study on antipsychotic medication reduction and discontinuation?

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  A study on antipsychotic medication reduction and discontinuation came out yesterday with fanfare.   The fanfare was basically because the...
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Sunday, November 27, 2016

Mechanism Of Action Of Lithium - A Brief History

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As a chemistry major and a psychiatrist Lithium has a special place in my consciousness.  During the years that I took organic chem...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Use Of "Medical Model" As A Pejorative Term

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Hearing “medical model” being used used pejoratively is quite tiresome.  I have heard it used that way for the past thirty years,...
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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Persecutory Delusions, Psychiatric Treatment, and Violence Prevention

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For 23 years I ran an acute care inpatient service where the main focus was preventing violence and suicide.  That is the default function ...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Straight Talk About the Government Dismantling Care for Serious Mental Illness

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The ShrinkRap blog posted a link to an E. Fuller Torrey and D.J. Jaffe  editorial in the National Review about how the government has dis...
Monday, August 5, 2013

Asthma Endophenotypes? Their Implications for Psychiatry

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Asthma is an annoying and sometimes fatal disease.  I have first hand experience with it because I have had asthma for at least 40 years.  L...