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Date: Jan 28, 2010
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy, the treatment approach similar to, but less extensive than, full psychoanalysis, is efficacious and well-supported by scientific evidence, despite a perception that it lacks empirical support, according to an article published online Jan. 25 in the American Psychologist.
Date: Jan 12, 2010
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Adolescents and their parents often underestimate the risk of suicide and would welcome more suicide prevention efforts by pediatricians, according to a study published online Jan. 11 in Pediatrics, while a study in the January/February issue of the Annals of Family Medicine found that physicians need to be clear, sensitive and supportive when asking depressed patients about their risk of suicide.
Date: Jan 8, 2010
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Employees with depression are more likely to have time off from work and have impaired work performance, according to a study in the January/February issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion.
Date: Jan 1, 2010
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Breast cancer survivors and multiple sclerosis patients are likely to report less fatigue as a result of physical activity if they have a strong sense of self-efficacy and are not depressed, according to a study published online Nov. 30 in Psychosomatic Medicine.
Date: Dec 31, 2009
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In pregnant women, the use of psychotropic medications, especially benzodiazepines, is associated with adverse perinatal outcomes, according to a study in the December issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Date: Dec 31, 2009
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Suicidal adolescents who are prescribed an antidepressant medication on discharge from the hospital are far less likely to be readmitted than those who are not given the drug, but patients who leave with three or more drugs from different drug classes are more likely to end up back in the hospital, according to a retrospective cohort study published in the December issue of The Annals of Pharmacotherapy.
After taking this CME, you should be able to explain to interested patients that this study used modeling based on various assumptions to determine that formal screening for postpartum depression in the primary care setting is not cost-effective.
Date: Dec 10, 2009
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Ron Rajecki
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Collaborative care delivered via telephone benefitted patients with depression after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, according to a study recently published in Journal of the American Medical Association.
Date: Dec 9, 2009
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The risk of suicidality among bipolar disorder patients treated with anti-epileptic drugs does not increase relative to those taking lithium or no drugs, according to a study published in the December issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
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