Since I last wrote about MOC in 2010, the most relevant news has not been within the program itself, but in the increasingly rancorous reaction against its requirements from physicians of all specialties. Regardless, it doesn’t look like ABPN is going to be ditching MOC any time soon, so this article pretty much lays out what you have to do, without (much) editorializing.

In 2006, an FDA panel recommended all manufacturers of stimulants to add a “black box” warning about an increased risk of “serious cardiovascular events.”

Nuedexta is a combination of dextromethorphan (DM) and quinidine sulfate. You might reasonably ask why these two agents would have ever been considered as a treatment for PBA.

In this article we’ll survey those drug interactions that are most likely to become troublesome in day to day psychiatric practice.

They used to be called “depot” antipsychotics, but the powers that be have renamed them “long acting injectables” (LAIs), presumably to help remove some of the stigma associated with their use. But no matter what you call them, suddenly every drug company is racing to introduce its own LAI neuroleptic.

A typical psychiatrist spends 20 to 30 minutes with patients during medication visits. Those rare birds who still do therapy can devote 40 to 50 minutes. Either way, that’s not a lot of time in comparison to the rest of our patients’ lives, nor in comparison to the size of their problems.

We couldn’t quite fit all of our reviews into this issue. Listed below are some more excellent books, all of which qualified for “honorable mention.”

After innumerable articles and books on the importance of genetic variants of P450 enzymes, it appears that the clinical pay-off just might be at hand.

Genetic counseling in psychiatry is a tricky proposition, because we are just starting to understand the complexity that underlies the genetic basis of psychiatric disease.

As science continues to explore the genetic components of mental illness, concerns about eugenics cannot be far behind. Long before the days of prenatal diagnosis, and difficult decisions about whether or not to terminate a pregnancy, there was a debate in the pages of the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1942 about actually killing so-called “feebleminded” people.