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PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY BULLETIN

VOL 51 No. 1

Articles in This Issue

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Going Virtual During a Pandemic: An Academic Psychiatry Department’s Experience with Telepsychiatry

Sagar V Parikh, Danielle S Taubman, Mary Grambeau, Rena A Menke, Mary C Blazek, Jennifer Sullivan, Jennifer Severe, Paresh D Patel, Gregory W Dalack
Background: The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) led healthcare providers, including mental health providers, across the U.S. to swiftly shift to telemedicine. Objectives: This shift gave our Department of Psychiatry a chance to better understand key...
Pages 59-68 Read Article
ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Impact of the Omics-Based Biomarkers on the Fluvoxamine’s Steady-State Concentration, Efficacy and Safety in Patients with Affective Disorders Comorbid with Alcohol Use Disorder

MS Zastrozhin, VYu Skryabin, VYu Smirnov, AK Zastrozhina, EV Kaverina, DA Klepikov, EA Grishina, KA Ryzhikova, IV Bure, EA Bryun, DA Sychev
Introduction: Fluvoxamine is commonly administered to patients with recurrent depressive disorder. Some of these patients do not show adequate response to the therapy with fluvoxamine, whereas many of them experience dose-dependent adverse drug reactions. Previous...
Pages 69-80 Read Article
ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Evaluation of Risk Factors Associated to Prescription of Benzodiazepines and its Patterns in a Cohort of Patients from Mental Health: A Real World Study in Spain

Jorge Simal-Aguado, María-Pilar Campos-Navarro, Francisco Valdivia-Muñoz, Alejandro Galindo-Tovar, Juan Antonio García-Carmona
Purpose: we aimed 1) to evaluate the risk factors associated to the benzodiazepines intake; 2) to assess the impact about the use of long acting injectables antipsychotics (LAIs); 3) to assess the risk in severe...
Pages 81-93 Read Article
REVIEW ARTICLE

Adverse Effects of Recreational and Medical Cannabis

Ivan Urits, Karina Charipova, Kyle Gress, Nathan Li, Amnon A Berger, Elyse M Cornett, Hisham Kassem, Anh L Ngo, Alan D Kaye, Omar Viswanath
Purpose of Review: This comprehensive review discusses the adverse effects known today about marijuana, for either medical or recreational use. It reviews the role of cannabis in the treatment of chronic pain, cognitive and neurological...
Pages 94-109 Read Article