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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 Child/Adolescent Psychiatry741 The Prevalence of Migraine Headaches in an Anxiety Disorders Clinic Sample CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, March 8, 2010
742 Clonazepam for Refractory Headache: Three Cases Illustrative of Benefit and Risk Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, March 8, 2010
743 Medically unexplained pain complaints are associated with underlying unrecognized mood disorders in primary care Full Text BMC Family Practice, March 5, 2010
744 A short goal-pursuit intervention to improve physical capacity: A randomized clinical trial in chronic back pain patients Pain, March 5, 2010
745 Resilience: A New Paradigm for Adaptation to Chronic Pain Current Pain and Headache Reports, March 5, 2010
746 Investigating the Association Between Childhood Physical Abuse and Migraine Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, March 4, 2010
747 Alteration of Delay and Trace Eyeblink Conditioning in Fibromyalgia Patients Psychosomatic Medicine, March 3, 2010
748 Pain-related fear predicts disability, but not pain severity: A path analytic approach of the fear-avoidance model European Journal of Pain, March 3, 2010
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750 Catastrophizing delays the analgesic effect of distraction Pain, March 1, 2010
751 Validation of the Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ) in an Internet sample and development and preliminary validation of the CPAQ-8 Pain, March 1, 2010
752 The role of motivation in distracting attention away from pain: An experimental study Pain, March 1, 2010
753 Affective Disturbances Modulate the Neural Processing of Visceral Pain Stimuli in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: an fMRI Study Full Text Gut, March 1, 2010
754 Antidepressants combined with self-management of pain improves outcomes in people with comorbid pain and depression Full Text Evidence-Based Mental Health, February 26, 2010 Evidence Based Medicine
755 Group cognitive behavioural treatment for low-back pain in primary care: a randomised controlled trial and cost-effectiveness analysis The Lancet - Early Online Publication, February 26, 2010
756 The relationships between mood disturbances and pain, hope, and quality of life in hospitalized cancer patients with pain on regularly scheduled opioid analgesic Journal of Palliative Medicine, February 25, 2010 Clinical Article
757 Psychologic Factors in the Development of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: History, Myth, and Evidence The Clinical Journal of Pain, February 23, 2010
758 Development of a Group Intervention to Improve School Functioning in Adolescents with Chronic Pain and Depressive Symptoms: A Study of Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy Journal of Pediatric Psychology, February 22, 2010
759 Self-efficacy for Coping With Cancer in a Multiethnic Sample of Breast Cancer Patients: Associations With Barriers to Pain Management and Distress The Clinical Journal of Pain, February 22, 2010
760 Childhood predictors of recurrent abdominal pain in adolescence: A 13-year population-based prospective study Journal of Psychosomatic Research, February 19, 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
Highlights in Psychiatry
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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Last month's top read Top Articles of 20121 Efficiacy of Melatonin in Chronic Tension Type Headache Patients and Effects on Anxiety and Depression Journal of Neurological Sciences (Turkish), April 1, 2013 Free full text
2 The comorbidity of insomnia, chronic pain, and depression: Dopamine as a putative mechanism Sleep Medicine Reviews , April 5, 2013
3 Pain in people with an intellectual disability Current Opinion in Psychiatry, March 29, 2013 Review Article
4 Panic Disorder in Children and Adolescents with Noncardiac Chest Pain Child Psychiatry and Human Development, February 7, 2013
5 Does Opiate Use in Traumatically Injured Individuals Worsen Pain and Psychological Outcomes? The Journal of Pain, April 22, 2013
6 Cerumen impaction in patients with schizophrenia Clinical Schizophrenia & Related Psychoses, March 4, 2013
7 Psychological factors: anxiety, depression, and somatization symptoms in low back pain patients Journal of Pain Research, February 14, 2013 Free full text
8 Five-factor personality traits and pain sensitivity. A twin study Pain, February 18, 2013
9 Age Differences in the Presence of Pain and Psychological Distress in Younger and Older Cancer Patients Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, March 26, 2013
10 The effects of relaxation breathing on procedural pain and anxiety during burn care Burns, April 9, 2013
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