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SSRIs and Intracerebral Hemorrhage Risk

May 21, 2021
Paul Barkopoulos, MD.
Paul Barkopoulos, MD. Dr. Barkopoulos has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
SSRIs help relieve post-stroke depression but increase the risk of intracerebral hemorrhage. This study gives us tips to reduce this risk.
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Hyperprolactinemia: Effective Treatment With Aripiprazole

May 21, 2021
Christina Guest, MD
Christina Guest, MD Dr. Guest has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Many antipsychotic medications produce hyperprolactinemia, leading to breast enlargement in men and missed menstrual cycles in women. A clever intervention reduces patients' prolactin levels.
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Welcoming Our New Editor-in-Chief

April 12, 2021
We’re pleased to introduce Victoria Hendrick, MD, as CHPR’s editor-in-chief. Dr. Hendrick is a clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the director of inpatient psychiatry at Olive View UCLA Medical Center, where she carries a caseload of patients and teaches and supervises medical students and psychiatry residents.
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Intranasal Esketamine: New Hope for Suicidal Patients?

April 12, 2021
Daniel Carlat, MD
Victoria Hendrick, MDVictoria Hendrick, MD.

Editor in Chief, The Carlat Hospital Psychiatry Report. Chief, Inpatient Psychiatry, Olive View UCLA Medical Center.    

Daniel Carlat, MD. Publisher, The Carlat Hospital Psychiatry Report. Dr. Hendrick and Dr. Carlat have disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Imagine a drug that resolves depression within hours in people at imminent risk of suicide. Esketamine may be such a drug — but is it a miracle cure? Here we look at the data and discuss the pros and cons of this new treatment.
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Serotonin Syndrome Versus NMS

April 12, 2021
Laura Tormoehlen, MD
Laura Tormoehlen, MDLaura Tormoehlen, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Clinical Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.

Dr. Tormoehlen has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Dr. Laura Tormoehlen discusses the management of neuroleptic malignant syndrome and serotonin syndrome and summarizes how to distinguish between these acute conditions.
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CLINICAL UPDATE

Deliberate Foreign Body Ingestion

April 12, 2021
Adrienne Grzenda, MD, PhD.
Adrienne Grzenda, MD, PhD. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA-Olive View Medical Center. Dr. Grzenda has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Why would anyone deliberately swallow a nondigestible object? What items require emergent removal, vs simple monitoring? And how can you help patients who repeatedly swallow foreign bodies?
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