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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 180
  • Number 5
  • May 2023

Editor’s Note

Editorials

Review and Overview

Publication date: 01 May 2023

Pages340–347

Over the past decade, psychedelic compounds have emerged as potentially transformative therapeutics for a variety of intractable neuropsychiatric conditions. However, historically most of the basic science has utilized these compounds as probes to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230172

Articles

Publication date: 22 February 2023

Pages348–356

Objective: Trichotillomania and skin-picking disorder are underrecognized and often disabling conditions in which individuals repeatedly pull at their hair or pick at their skin, leading to noticeable hair loss or tissue damage. To date there is a severe ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20220737

Publication date: 22 March 2023

Pages357–366

Objective: Social anxiety disorder is common and impairing. The efficacy of pharmacotherapy is moderate, highlighting the need for alternative therapies. This study compared the efficacy of gaze-contingent music reward therapy (GC-MRT), an eye-tracking-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20220533

Publication date: 09 March 2023

Pages367–376

Objective: Negative symptoms are a primary cause of disability in schizophrenia for which there are no established pharmacotherapies. This study evaluated a novel psychosocial intervention that combined two evidence-based practices—motivational ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20220243

Publication date: 22 March 2023

Pages377–385

Objectives: The authors sought to study the safety of antipsychotic polypharmacy compared with monotherapy in specific dosage categories. Methods: Patients with schizophrenia (N=61,889; median follow-up, 14.8 years [IQR=7.4–22.0]) were identified from the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20220446

Publication date: 09 March 2023

Pages386–394

Objective: Overdose risk during a course of treatment with medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) has not been clearly delineated. The authors sought to address this gap by leveraging a new data set from three large pragmatic clinical trials of MOUD. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20220312

Letter to the Editor

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