Coming Off Prescribed Psychotropic Medications: Insights from Their Use as Recreational Drugs
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Modified Anesthesia Protocol for Electroconvulsive Therapy Permits Reduction in Aerosol-Generating Bag-Mask Ventilation ...
Published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
Introduction: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a critical procedure in psychiatric treatment, but as typically delivered involves the use of bag-mask ventilation (BMV), which during the COVID-19 pandemic exposes patients and treatment staff to potentially infectious aerosols. Objective: To demonstrate the utility of a modified anesthesia protocol...
Is There an Evidence-Based Number of Sessions in Outpatient Psychotherapy? – A Comparison of Naturalistic Conditions acr...
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Improving Cost-effectiveness and Access to Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Depression: Providing Remote-Ready, Computer-A...
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Introduction: There is growing evidence that computer-delivered or computer-assisted forms of cognitive behavior therapy (CCBT) are helpful, but cost-effectiveness versus standard therapies is not well established. Objective: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a therapist-supported method for CCBT in comparison to standard cognitive behavior the...
Measuring Success in Psychotherapy Trials: The Challenge of Choosing the Adequate Control Condition
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The Deceptive Manifestations of Treatment Resistance in Depression: A New Look at the Problem
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COVID-19 and Working Conditions in Health Care
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The Hamilton Rating Scales for Depression: A Critical Review of Clinimetric Properties of Different Versions
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The format of the original Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D) was unstructured: only general instructions were provided for rating individual items. Over the years, a number of modified versions of the HAM-D have been proposed. They differ not only in the number of items, but also in modalities of administration. Structured versions, incl...
A Rational Use of Clozapine Based on Adverse Drug Reactions, Pharmacokinetics, and Clinical Pharmacopsychology
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Using Richardson and Davidson’s model and the sciences of pharmacokinetics and clinical pharmacopsychology, this article reviewed the: (1) poor life expectancy associated with treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS), which may be improved in patients who adhere to clozapine; (2) findings that clozapine is the best treatment for TRS (according to ef...
Mental Health and Psychosocial Problems of Medical Health Workers during the COVID-19 Epidemic in China
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Objective: We explored whether medical health workers had more psychosocial problems than nonmedical health workers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Methods: An online survey was run from February 19 to March 6, 2020; a total of 2,182 Chinese subjects participated. Mental health variables were assessed via the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), the Sympto...
