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MDLinx Psychiatry is your one-stop shop for the peer-reviewed journal articles published in your field. We sort, rank and summarize the literature within 24 hours – hot off the presses! – so you can stay current without drowning in those piles of Current Psychiatry, Bipolar Disorders, and American Journal of Psychiatry. Also find bonus content like clinical pearls from The Smartest Psychiatrist Physician Review and daily quiz competition. Not sure where to start? Skim some of the recent “must read” articles highlighted by our own physician editor D. Scott Cunningham, MD, PhD.
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Latest Full Text Articles (7) Focus on Schizophrenia701 Managing headache triggers: Think 'coping' not 'avoidance' Cephalalgia, April 16, 2010
702 Mental defeat is linked to interference, distress and disability in chronic pain Pain, April 16, 2010
703 Psychopathology and quality of life burden in chronic daily headache: influence of migraine symptoms The Journal of Headache and Pain, April 16, 2010
704 Borderline Personality Disorder Features and Pain: The Mediating Role of Negative Affect in a Pain Patient Sample The Clinical Journal of Pain, April 16, 2010
705 Pain-Related Fear Contributes to Self-Reported Disability in Patients With Foot and Ankle Pathology Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, April 14, 2010
706 MIPAS-Family - evaluation of a new multi-modal behavioral training program for pediatric headaches: clinical effects and the impact on quality of life The Journal of Headache and Pain, April 12, 2010
707 Beta2* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors modulate pain sensitivity in acutely abstinent tobacco smokers Nicotine & Tobacco Research, April 12, 2010
708 Self-reported pain interference and symptoms of anxiety and depression in community-dwelling older adults: Can a temporal relationship be determined? European Journal of Pain, April 12, 2010
709 Psychological approaches to understanding and treating arthritis pain Full Text Nature Reviews Rheumatology , April 8, 2010 Review Article
710 Supraspinal Pain Processing: Distinct Roles of Emotion and Attention The Neuroscientist, April 8, 2010
711 The relation between sleep and pain among a non-clinical sample of young adults European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, April 8, 2010
712 Validation of the Malay version of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS-M) among a group of medical students in Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya Asian Journal of Psychiatry, April 6, 2010
713 Relationship between School Absenteeism and Depressive Symptoms among Adolescents with Juvenile Fibromyalgia Journal of Pediatric Psychology, April 5, 2010
714 Differentiating and Managing Common Psychiatric Comorbidities Seen in Chronic Pain Patients Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, April 5, 2010
715 The influence of psychological factors on pre-operative levels of pain intensity, disability and health-related quality of life in lumbar spinal fusion surgery patients Physiotherapy, April 2, 2010
716 A Psychometric Investigation of Fear-Avoidance Model Measures in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain Full Text Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, April 2, 2010
717 Heart-focused anxiety as a mediating variable in the treatment of noncardiac chest pain by cognitive-behavioral therapy and paroxetine Journal of Psychosomatic Research, April 2, 2010
718 Lower-Order Pain-Related Constructs Are More Predictive of Cold Pressor Pain Ratings than Higher-Order Personality Traits The Journal of Pain, April 2, 2010
719 Pain catastrophizing predicts pain intensity during a neurodynamic test for the median nerve in healthy participants Manual Therapy , April 2, 2010
720 Psychiatric comorbidity and suicide risk in patients with chronic migraine Full Text Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, April 2, 2010
Clinical Pearls in Psychiatry
- The three core symptoms of neuropsychiatric illness behavior in Alzheimer patients are depression, anxiety and apathy
- In institutionalized people with dementia the introduction of a motor and multisensory-based approach in care routines may improve residents' engagement and attention to the environment
- Decreased BMI might be a useful indicator for future risk of dementia in Parkinson’s disease patients
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Risk factors for postpartum depression
As published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, risk factors for postpartum depression among abused women included age 15-19 (aOR=2.29) and > 35 years of age (aOR=2.33). In non-abused women, risk factors for postpartum depression include unemployment (aOR=1.41), foreign birth (aOR=2.04), and low income (aOR=1.68). Postpartum depression was also associated with women abused prior to pregnancy (aOR=3.28), abuse beginning postpartum (aOR=4.76), and abuse resuming postpartum (aOR=3.81).
Read the article summaryA link between cardiovascular fitness and depression
As published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, low cardiovascular fitness at 18 years of age (n = 1,117,292; follow-up, 3-40 y) is associated with an increased risk of severe depression (HR = 1.96).
Read the article summaryOptimal dose of amisulpride for acute exacerbation of schizophrenia
As published in Clinical Drug Investigation, an initial amisulpride dose of 800 mg (n=38) is more effective that 400 mg with dose titration (n=30) in patients with an acute exacerbation of schizophrenia. A greater number of patients in the 800 mg group than the 400 mg with dose titration group had a 30% reduction in the Positive and Negative Symptom Scale after 4 (68.4% vs. 40.0%) and 6 weeks (71.1% vs. 43.3%).
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