Most people with bipolar disorder are maintained on antidepressants, but the evidence base is rather meager. In a recent trial, researchers recruited 70 patients with bipolar disorder, all of whom had responded to a combination of a mood stabilizer and an antidepressant.
Telepsychiatry is a sub-field of telemedicine that refers to the use of videoconferencing to treat patients in other locations. This used to be an expensive proposition, requiring special videoconferencing equipment, but now anybody with a modern laptop computer and a webcam can videoconference...
Tired of telling patients to go to WebMD.com or…yawn…NIMH.nih.gov for their Internet information needs? Here are some alternatives that will probably keep your patients a little more engaged, and as a result, more educated.
Dr. Luo, there are so many forms of electronic communication out there now—from email to blogs to Twitter. What do psychiatrists need to know about using technology to communicate with our patients?
Scopolamine is an anticholinergic most often used in patch form to prevent sea-sickness or post-surgical nausea. A recent double-blind, placebo-controlled trial looked at intravenous scopolamine’s effects as a treatment for unipolar depression.