Autism Spectrum Disorders
Drs Joshua Rotenberg and Deepa Menon both explain how neurologists facilitate an ASD diagnosis by addressing the common neurological comorbidities in ASD.
Depressive Disorder
Investigators conducted a scoping review of randomized controlled trials that evaluated the impact of cognitive behavioral therapy on symptoms of depression and anxiety among patients with type 2 diabetes.
General Psychiatry
A deep dive into clinical efficacy and safety of using psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for depression, anxiety, PTSD, substance use disorder, and other mental health disorders.
Eating Disorders
Cynthia Bulik, PhD, and Helen Burton Murray, PhD, discuss the interrelatedness between gastrointestinal disorders and eating disorders and the need for more clinician awareness.
Depressive Disorder
While antidepressants and psychotherapy have helped many women with postpartum depression (PPD), established pharmacologic approaches for MDD do not target the proposed mechanisms of PPD, and studies have shown that a substantial number of patients with PPD do not achieve remission with antidepressants. We interviewed 3 experts on the subject.
Alcohol-Related Disorders
Rheumatologists Leanna M. Wise, MD, and Rajat Bhatt, MD, and researcher Matthew A. Turk, MSc, discuss the effects of alcohol consumption in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and evaluate existing literature on the inverse association between alcohol intake and RA.
Anesthesiology
What the Anesthesiologist Should Know before the Operative Procedure Cataract surgery is one of the most common surgical procedures in the world with over 1,000,000 cataract operations performed annually in America alone. The World Health Organization estimated more than 10 million cataract operations were performed worldwide annually at the end of the 20th century. Cataract…
Depressive Disorder
Two experts speak about how apps address different needs and use different technologies, but taken together, they shed light on the manifold ways that apps can be used for depression management in clinical practice.
Dermatology
Are You Confident of the Diagnosis? What you should be alert for in the history Patients with pruritic (itchy) blisters should alert the physician. The disease onset can be in adulthood or in childhood, even in the neonate. The disease onset in childhood has been termed chronic bullous dermatosis of childhood, which is now considered…
Dermatology
Are You Confident of the Diagnosis? Cutaneous lupus mucinosis (CLM), or papulonodular mucinosis, is a rare variant of cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) characterized by an abundance of dermal mucin resulting in papular lesions. It occurs in approximately 1.5% of patients with lupus erythematosus. Secondary mucin deposition can be seen, usually histologically, in more classic lupus…
