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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 173
  • Number 6
  • June 2016

Editorials

Commentaries

Treatment in Psychiatry

Images in Psychiatry

Reviews and Overviews

Publication date: 26 April 2016

Pages575–587

Objective: There is burgeoning interest in augmentation strategies for improving inadequate response to antidepressants. The adjunctive use of standardized pharmaceutical-grade nutrients, known as nutraceuticals, has the potential to modulate several ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.15091228

Articles

Publication date: 04 March 2016

Pages588–599

Objective: Attitudes toward marijuana are changing, the prevalence of DSM-IV cannabis use disorder has increased, and DSM-5 modified the cannabis use disorder criteria. Therefore, updated information is needed on the prevalence, demographic characteristics,...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15070907

Publication date: 07 December 2015

Pages600–606

Objective: Although mortality related to psychotropic medications has received much attention in recent years, little is known about the relationship between risk of death and cumulative antipsychotic load, and even less about the relationship between ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15050618

Publication date: 26 February 2016

Pages607–616

Objective: Despite the multitude of longitudinal neuroimaging studies that have been published, a basic question on the progressive brain loss in schizophrenia remains unaddressed: Does it reflect accelerated aging of the brain, or is it caused by a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15070922

Publication date: 04 March 2016

Pages617–624

Objective: Several cross-sectional studies have related depressive and anxiety disorders to shorter leukocyte telomere length (LTL) as an indicator of cellular aging. However, these studies have left many unresolved questions about underlying causality and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15070887

Publication date: 15 January 2016

Pages625–634

Objective: In this study, the authors tested the hypothesis that poverty experienced in early childhood, as measured by income-to-needs ratio, has an impact on functional brain connectivity at school age, which in turn mediates influences on child negative ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15081014

Publication date: 04 March 2016

Pages635–642

Objective: The postpartum period is associated with a high risk of psychiatric episodes. The authors studied mortality in women with first-onset severe psychiatric disorders following childbirth and compared their mortality rates with those in women from ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.14121510

Letter to the Editor

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