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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.

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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.

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The 6 Steps to Catalyze CBT and DBT With Young Patients

Psychiatric Times

The diary card is a core DBT tool that prompts patients to document daily ratings of emotions, skills use, medication adherence, and other behavioral metrics. Of course, functional outcomes that reflect patients’ lived experience tend to be most compelling.

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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.

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The “Sick Enough” Paradox in Eating Disorder Treatment

Mad in America

T hese were the exact parameters of my eating disorder treatment contract, as defined by my so-called care team when I was 20 years old. I had begun eating disorder treatment in May, just five months prior, determined to get an A. Secondly, Jasmine has an eating disorder, said the therapist.

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Reduced Parahippocampal Volume Found to Be Related to Major Depressive Disorder in Study Using 7T MRI

Psychiatric Times

The documentation of structural alteration to the PHC provides further evidence that these changes can indicate emotional dysregulation and perhaps represent early manifestation or predispositions to MDD. This study was also the first to employ 7T MRI technology to investigate parahippocampus morphology in MDD cases.