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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

This 60-year gap likely contributed to the progressive decrease in screening, documenting, and discussing the cause and course of TD with patients. She has been on an antipsychotic medication to treat her bipolar disorder for 10 years, resulting in stability of mood symptoms that were previously poorly controlled.

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Using Serum Drug Levels

Psychiatric Times

Finally, it provides documentation to justify why the medication was stopped or increased to off-label dosages, or to explain the clinical appropriateness of the treatment plan to an insurance company or colleague. Comparison of standard and low serum levels of lithium for maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder. N Engl J Med.

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

However, more than 20 years later, I stumbled upon that very diagnosis in my patient record, documented during my stay at the nation’s first eating disorders inpatient clinic from the end of 2001 to March of 2002. Later, bipolar disorder took its place.

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Intergenerational Gaps and the Role of Technology in Psychiatric Leadership: A Trainee’s Perspective

Psychiatric Times

10 For younger generations, particularly Millennials and Gen Z, the use of EHRs is second nature, streamlining documentation and improving access to patient history and data analysis. 9 Another major technological shift in medicine has been the integration of electronic health records (EHRs).

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Prodromal Symptoms of Schizophrenia: Understanding and Addressing Challenges

Psychiatric Times

Early-Onset Schizophrenia Concerns The prodrome for schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders involves a series of shifts or a decline in diverse subjective and behavioral symptoms that come before the appearance of overt clinical psychotic symptoms. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2024;33(4):645-658.