Schizophrenia Perspective

• S2 Episode 2: Schizophrenia, Relapse, and Use of Long-Acting Injectables   Drs John M. Kane and Jose Rubio-Lorente discuss the value of long-acting injectable formulations in reducing the risk for relapse and rehospitalization for patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.
  Medscape, March 22, 2023
• S2 Episode 1: Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia   Drs John M. Kane and Jonathan Meyer discuss treatment-resistant schizophrenia, how common it is, how to detect and manage it, and how delays in the initiation of treatment negatively affect patients.
  Medscape, March 22, 2023
• Physician Mental Health Challenges and Stigmas Many physicians keep their mental illness or mental challenges secret, for fear that acknowledging or admitting to depression, drug dependency, and other significant problems will derail their career.
  Medscape Physician Business Academy, February 28, 2023
• Finding Catatonia Requires Knowing What to Look for Unlike common psychiatric syndromes, such as major depression, that are characterized by self-report of symptoms, catatonia is identified chiefly by empirically evaluated signs on clinical evaluation.
  MDedge, February 16, 2023
• It's Wise to Hospitalize Mentally Ill Homeless People: Ethicist   Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, discusses a movement to identify and treat severely mentally ill homeless individuals.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, February 16, 2023
• Forced Hospitalization for Mental Illness Not a Permanent Solution A psychiatrist talks about the complexity of involuntarily hospitalizing unhoused people with mental illness and suggests that the problem is too big for a simplistic solution.
  Medscape Psychiatry, February 08, 2023
• Physicians of the Year 2022: Best and Worst Find out more on the good deeds and groundbreaking research findings that define the best physicians of the past year — and just how bad the worst doctors could be.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, December 30, 2022
• Care, Not Incarceration, for the Mentally Ill A new law in California puts the emphasis on psychiatric treatment rather than jail or homelessness.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, December 08, 2022
• S1 Episode 6: Relapse in Schizophrenia: Why It Occurs and What We Can Do   Drs John Kane and Jose Rubio-Lorente discuss relapse in schizophrenia -- why it occurs, how often it occurs, and what we can do about it.
  Medscape, December 07, 2022
• S1 Episode 5: Neuroimaging in Schizophrenia: What Have We Learned?   Drs John Kane and Anil Malhotra discuss neuroimaging and connectivity between various regions of the brain in patients with schizophrenia and how it affects the pathophysiology and treatment response.
  Medscape, November 09, 2022
• S1 Episode 4: Assessing Cognitive Functioning in Schizophrenia Patients   Drs John Kane and Philip D. Harvey discuss how physicians can assess cognitive functioning in patients with schizophrenia and how to utilize rehabilitation and technology to address it.
  Medscape, October 05, 2022
• Schizophrenia, Postmodernism: A Philosophical Treatment Exercise Hard Talk columnists note that patients with schizophrenia 'deserve to have their thoughts addressed in a therapeutic framework' -- and that philosophy provides psychiatry with tools on how to do so.
  MDedge, September 27, 2022
• S1 Episode 3: New Antipsychotic Drugs Available for Schizophrenia   Drs John Kane and Jonathan M. Meyer discuss what new antipsychotic drugs are available for schizophrenia. What drugs are under development? And what do they potentially offer?
  Medscape, September 13, 2022
• S1 Episode 2: Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia: Effectiveness and Optimal Dosing   Drs John Kane and Stefan Leucht bring you the latest on how best to use antipsychotic medications in the treatment of schizophrenia.
  Medscape, August 02, 2022
• S1 Episode 1: Risks Associated With Antipsychotic Medications   Drs John Kane and Christoph U. Correll discuss the types of monitoring and support that patients with schizophrenia may need while receiving antipsychotic medications.
  Medscape, August 02, 2022
• When Suffering Defies Diagnosis In the wake of Uvalde, Dr Dinah Miller says that an exact diagnosis is not always readily apparent. Psychiatry is often tasked with figuring out if someone is mad (mentally ill), bad (evil), or both.
  Medscape Psychiatry, June 16, 2022
• Key Takeaways in Schizophrenia Management From APA 2022   Key takeaways from APA 2022 focused on social determinants of mental health, routine drug monitoring, use of GLP-1 receptor agonists, and the impact of climate change on patients with schizophrenia.
  Medscape, June 16, 2022
• S1 Episode 3: The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Major Depressive Disorder   How does the gut microbiome affect the brain? Madhukar Trivedi, MD, and Jane Foster, PhD, discuss the current evidence and clinical takeaways.
  Medscape, June 09, 2022
• Episode 5: Managing Mental Health and Substance Abuse In HIV Patients   Drs Michael Saag and Glenn Treisman discuss methods of managing mental health and substance abuse in HIV patients.
  Medscape, June 07, 2022
• ASCP 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ASCP 2022
  Medscape Psychiatry, May 31, 2022