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The Carlat Psychiatry Report

ADHD (February) | 2012

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Are Clinical Scales Useful for Adult ADHD?

February 1, 2012
Aashish Parikh, MD
Patients often come into my office to be “tested for ADHD,” and I explain to them that the diagnosis depends on a thorough clinical interview. Nonetheless, rating scales can be useful. Read More

A Boatload of New Data on Stimulants and Cardiac Events

February 1, 2012
Daniel Carlat, MD
In 2006, an FDA panel recommended all manufacturers of stimulants to add a “black box” warning about an increased risk of “serious cardiovascular events.” Read More

Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD in Adults

February 1, 2012
Aashish Parikh, MD
To begin with, you have to specify whether you are thinking in terms of DSM-IV criteria or probable DSM-5 criteria. The major difference is that currently you have to establish that ADHD symptoms began before age seven, whereas DSM-5 is more lenient, requiring that they began by age 12. Read More

Is Pharmacogenetic Testing Used—and Useful—in Clinical Practice?

February 1, 2012
Glen Spielmans, PhD
For years, we have read articles about the promise of pharmacogenetic testing to help us choose and monitor medication treatment. Read More

How Risky is Pregnancy for Women with a History of Mood Disorders?

February 1, 2012
Glen Spielmans, PhD
We know that the postpartum period is a risky time for women who have a history of depression, especially if they experienced postpartum depression in the past. But several questions about mood and pregnancy are still unanswered. Read More

FDA Publishes Article Critical of Vilazodone Data

February 1, 2012
Glen Spielmans, PhD
It has been over a year now since the approval of vilazodone (Viibryd). As you may recall from our review of the drug in TCPR April 2011, vilazodone is an SSRI with partial agonism at the 5HT1A receptor. Read More

Learning Objectives, ADHD, TCPR, February 2012

February 1, 2012
After reading these articles, you should be able to… Read More
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Chris Aiken, MD
Dr. Aiken is the Editor in Chief of The Carlat Psychiatry Report; director of the Mood Treatment Center in North Carolina, where he maintains a private practice combining medication and therapy along with evidence-based complementary and alternative treatments; and Assistant Professor NYU Langone Department of Psychiatry. He has worked as a research assistant at the NIMH and a sub-investigator on clinical trials, and conducts research on a shoestring budget out of his private practice. Follow him on Twitter and find him on LinkedIn.

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