Would you like to be more up-to-date about recently published and clinically useful research?
Would it help if someone did the work of wading through the hundreds of articles about mental health that are published each month and selected only five per month?
- AND selected articles that were relevant to clinicians and not only to researchers?
- AND summarized the article in simple bullet points?
- AND added some useful comments to put the article in context?
- AND there was no cost to you?
Well, as the Editor of GME Research Review, I have been doing this since January 2015.
http://www.gmeded.com/gme-research-review
Every month, I spent a lot of time sifting through the published literature to carefully select five recently published research articles of interest to clinicians. I describe the study briefly and in language that is (hopefully) clear. Lastly, I also provide some comments about the study.
In the March 2015 issue of GME Research Review, I discussed papers addressing the following questions:
What happens in real life to patients with bipolar disorder discharged from the hospital?
If we put together all previous research on rapid cycling in bipolar disorder, what key points emerge?
For alcohol detoxification, is symptom-triggered lorazepam better than fixed tapering dose?
What do the two key clinical trials of suvorexant (Belsomra®) show about its efficacy and its safety?
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In the February 2015 issue of GME Research Review, I discussed recently published papers addressing the following topics:
- Transdermal testosterone might be another option for women with antidepressant-associated decrease in libido
- Adding over-the-counter soy isoflavone (a phytoestrogen) to an SSRI may help menopausal depressed women
- A metaanalysis of 16 papers shows that SSRIs do prolong QTc and that citalopram does so more than some other SSRIs
- The latest metaanalysis concludes that EEG neurofeedback helps children with ADHD. But, are we ready to start recommending it to our patients?
- How to (not) monitor patients on lithium for nephrogenic diabetes insipidus: a cross-sectional study provides some simple tips
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In the January 2015 issue of GME Research Review, I discussed recently published papers addressing the following issues:
- Does antidepressant use in the third trimester cause persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn? A systematic review of seven studies gives its verdict
- Thyroid hormone may be another option for patients with bipolar depression even when they don’t have either hypothyroidism or rapid cycling
- When patients with social anxiety disorder don’t respond to an SSRI alone, what’s the best next step?
- For patients with alcohol abuse, we are not giving thiamine correctly. What is the right way to do it?
- Citalopram may be another option for treating agitation in patients with Alzheimer’s disease
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