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PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY BULLETIN

VOL 54 No. 2

Articles in This Issue

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Clavulanic Acid Decreases Cocaine Cue Reactivity in Addiction-Related Brain Areas, a Randomized fMRI Pilot Study

Linda S Callans, Helene Philogene-Khalid, Kanchana Jagannathan, Ronan Cunningham, Daohai Yu, Xiaoning Lu, M. Ingre Walters, Mary F Morrison
Background Preclinical studies show that clavulanic acid (CLAV) inhibits cocaine self-administration. This study investigates the effect of CLAV on regions of brain activation in response to cocaine cues during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in...
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Efficacy of Rivastigmine Augmentation on Positive and Negative Symptoms, General Psychopathology, and Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Schizophrenia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Sepideh Herizchi, Ali Reza Shafiee-Kandjani, Mostafa Farahbakhsh, Zahra Jahangiri, Shahriyar Ghanbarzadeh Javid, Hosein Azizi
The study aimed to assess Rivastigmine augmentation on positive and negative symptoms (PNSs), general psychopathology, and quality of life in patients with chronic Schizophrenia. A double-blind, parallel-design, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of 60 schizophrenia patients was...
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GENERAL PSYCHIATRY

A Unique Delusion with Depression in Early Stage of Neurocognitive Disorder Due to Vascular Disease: Considerations for Clinicians

Mounica Thootkur, Binx Yezhe Lin, Akhil S Pola, Alexander Zhang, Zhengshan Liu, Michael Greenage, Justin White, Mamta Sapra
As global aging becomes more prominent, neurocognitive disorders (NCD) incidence has increased. Patients with NCD usually have an impairment in one or more cognitive domains, such as attention, planning, inhibition, learning, memory, language, visual perception,...
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REVIEW ARTICLE

Clozapine Prescripers—Dogmatic or Pragmatic?

Ahmed Naguy, Hessa Alhazeem
Clozapine, amongst antipsychotics, has a unique composite mode of action that might translate into an expanded therapeutic potential on clinical grounds. Sorely, clozapine remains underutilized.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A Bell’s Palsy Case Probably Related to Sertraline Use

Mehmet Emin Ceylan, Barış Önen Ünsalver, Hatice Zeynep Ceylan
Bell’s palsy is a peripheral facial nerve dysfunction that presents clinically as acute, unilateral partial, or complete paralysis of the face and is primarily idiopathic in origin.1 While the etiology is unclear, anatomical, viral infectious,...
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CORRECTION

Corrections to: Association Between Symptom Severity and Medication Adherence in Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder Demonstrating Suboptimal Adherence.

Sajatovic M, Levin JB, Modi A, McVoy M, Forthun LF, Cooley R, Black J, Conroy C, Sarna K, Briggs FB, DelBello M.
In analyzing our final outcomes data from this study, we discovered some errors in the results of the interim analysis derived from this dataset and published in the August 2023 issue and now provide a...
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