Adrienne Grzenda, MD, PhD.

CLINICAL UPDATE

Who's Who? A Review of Delusional Misidentification Syndromes

October 1, 2022

Adrienne Grzenda, MD. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and Olive View UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Grzenda, author for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

You have probably encountered patients who adamantly insist a loved one has been replaced by an impostor. Here are tips for how to treat them.

Deliberate Foreign Body Ingestion

April 12, 2021

Adrienne Grzenda, MD, PhD.

Adrienne Grzenda, MD, PhD. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA-Olive View Medical Center. Dr. Grzenda has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Why would anyone deliberately swallow a nondigestible object? What items require emergent removal, vs simple monitoring? And how can you help patients who repeatedly swallow foreign bodies?

Is There a Case for Cannabis in the Treatment of Pain?

August 30, 2019

Adrienne Grzenda, MD, PhD.

Adrienne Grzenda, MD, PhD. Dr. Grzenda has disclosed that she has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Many patients report that marijuana improves their pain. Their experience has a grain of truth to it, but not enough to classify cannabis as an analgesic.