Somatic Disorders
Cases That Test Your Skills
A medication change, then involuntary lip smacking and tongue rolling
Ms. X, age 65, requests to change her antipsychotic to one her insurance covers. Within a few weeks, she experiences involuntary lip smacking and...
Med/Psych Update
Head pain and psychiatric illness: Applying the biopsychosocial model to care
Integrating neurologic, cognitive, and psychological aspects of this condition enhances clinical assessment
Commentary
Rx: Treating chronic medical vulnerability in the mentally ill
As a physician who specializes in psychiatry, internal medicine, and pain medicine, I work with patients to treat such common disorders as...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Reducing medical comorbidity and mortality in severe mental illness
Collaboration with primary and preventive care could improve outcomes
News
WCD: Smoking tied to worse occupational hand eczema
Key clinical point: Smoking might worsen the signs and symptoms of occupational hand eczema. Major finding: Smokers had significantly worse...
Conference Coverage
DDW: New scale measures impact of IBD on sexual function in men
Key clinical point: Once validated, a new scale designed to evaluate sexual dysfunction in men with inflammatory bowel disease could provide a...
Video
Rx: Preventive care
Pearls
Recognizing autophonia in patients with anorexia nervosa
Cases That Test Your Skills
A physician who feels hopeless and worthless and complains of pain
Dr. D, age 33, complains of worsening depression, pain and muscle tension, and suicidal ideation. How would you treat a physician−colleague?
Conference Coverage
PSYCHIATRY UPDATE 2015
SOLVING CLINICAL CHALLENGES, IMPROVING PATIENT CARE