Kati N Lake, Victoria M Wilkins, Elizabeth B Ford, Sharon J Parish, Reile M Slattery, Mark J Russ, Benjamin D Brody
{"title":"A 23-Year-Old Woman with Psychotic Mania and a Report of Sexual Violence During a Psychiatric Hospitalization.","authors":"Kati N Lake, Victoria M Wilkins, Elizabeth B Ford, Sharon J Parish, Reile M Slattery, Mark J Russ, Benjamin D Brody","doi":"10.1097/HRP.0000000000000375","DOIUrl":"10.1097/HRP.0000000000000375","url":null,"abstract":"CASE HISTORY Ms. A is a 23-year-old artist and food services worker with a history of bipolar 1 disorder. She was admitted to an inpatient psychiatric facility following a three-week history of unusual and disorganized behavior, including leaving rotting food in her bathtub for “storage,” decreased need for sleep, and sending large volumes of illogical messages to a high-profile artist whom she believed was in love with her. The police brought Ms. A to the emergency room (ER) after she became disruptive to her roommates in a shared living space.","PeriodicalId":12915,"journal":{"name":"Harvard Review of Psychiatry","volume":"31 5","pages":"234-241"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10218010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lucy E Gray, Robert W Buchanan, Matcheri S Keshavan, John Torous
{"title":"Potential Role of Smartphone Technology in Advancing Work on Neurological Soft Signs with a Focus on Schizophrenia.","authors":"Lucy E Gray, Robert W Buchanan, Matcheri S Keshavan, John Torous","doi":"10.1097/HRP.0000000000000377","DOIUrl":"10.1097/HRP.0000000000000377","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Learning objective after participating in this cme activity, the psychiatrist should be better able to: </strong>• Outline and Identify potential benefits of using neurological soft signs (NSS) as biomarkers of schizophrenia.</p><p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Since the late 1960s, NSS have been a focus of study across psychiatric illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia in particular. Utilizing these subtle neurological impairments as biomarkers of illness has numerous benefits; NSS offer a direct connection between clinical presentation and neurological functioning, and assessments are cost-effective. However, incongruent measurement scales, confounding variables, and rating system subjectivity have hindered the advancement and scalability of NSS research and clinical implementation. This article provides a brief overview of the literature on NSS as related to schizophrenia, and proposes utilizing smartphone sensing technology to create standardized NSS assessments with objective scoring. Incorporating digital phenotyping into NSS assessment offers the potential to make measurement more scalable, accessible, and directly comparable across locations, cultures, and demographics. We conducted a narrative search in PubMed and APA PsycInfo using the following keywords: neurological soft signs, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and psychotic illnesses. No date limitations were used. There is no other direct work on NSS and new smartphone methods like digital phenotyping; though, there is related work in neurology. Harnessing advances in smartphone technology could provide greater insight into and further our understanding of specific aspects of the NSS field. For instance, it could help us distinguish trait vs. state markers and better understand how distinct groups of signs may reflect different aspects of psychiatric illness and neurological impairment. In addition, such technology can help advance research on the capabilities of NSS as an effective diagnostic tool.</p>","PeriodicalId":12915,"journal":{"name":"Harvard Review of Psychiatry","volume":"31 5","pages":"226-233"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10222772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Han Yue, Sejal B Shah, Katherine L Modzelewski, Mark Knobel, Frank Copeli, Larkin Kao
{"title":"A Grave Set of Diagnoses: A Case of Mania with Comorbid Autoimmune Thyroiditis Precipitated by Multiple Sclerosis Treatment.","authors":"Han Yue, Sejal B Shah, Katherine L Modzelewski, Mark Knobel, Frank Copeli, Larkin Kao","doi":"10.1097/HRP.0000000000000378","DOIUrl":"10.1097/HRP.0000000000000378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12915,"journal":{"name":"Harvard Review of Psychiatry","volume":"31 5","pages":"242-247"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10222450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ellen J Godena, Jennifer L Freeburn, Noah D Silverberg, David L Perez
{"title":"A Case of Functional Cognitive Disorder: Psychotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy Insights.","authors":"Ellen J Godena, Jennifer L Freeburn, Noah D Silverberg, David L Perez","doi":"10.1097/HRP.0000000000000379","DOIUrl":"10.1097/HRP.0000000000000379","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12915,"journal":{"name":"Harvard Review of Psychiatry","volume":"31 5","pages":"248-256"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10222774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Should Medical Insurance Review Serve the Patient's Best Interests? Examples and Considerations Illustrated by Behavioral Health Cases.","authors":"Peter Q Harris, Melissa E Abraham, Bruce M Cohen","doi":"10.1097/HRP.0000000000000370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/HRP.0000000000000370","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Physician medical directors working for health care insurance companies conduct utilization reviews, participate in quality-of-care reviews, and adjudicate appeals. As a result, they have access to substantial and important clinical information. The medical director may have both current and historical information that can assist the treatment team in providing care. Sharing this information with a patient's current health care provider(s) is problematic due to concerns about patient privacy and the insurer's goal of not assuming legal liability for patient care. While this paper considers legal issues, it predominantly addresses the ethical responsibilities of medical directors who have valuable information unavailable to or unrecognized by the treatment team. Although it is important to consider sharing general medical information, this paper emphasizes the sharing of behavioral health information, which can be highly sensitive but also pertinent to psychiatric and other medical treatment choices. We suggest that clinical information should flow from insurer to provider when the insurer has information that will benefit the patient or prove crucial to optimal care rather than just flow from provider to insurer for the purposes of claims payments. To support and secure that flow, the paper outlines procedures for determining the need to share information, the means of providing that information, ways to separate liability, and processes for protecting privacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":12915,"journal":{"name":"Harvard Review of Psychiatry","volume":"31 4","pages":"208-213"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9812989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors in Depression.","authors":"David T Liebers, Wataru Ebina, Dan V Iosifescu","doi":"10.1097/HRP.0000000000000374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/HRP.0000000000000374","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Novel treatment strategies that refract existing treatment algorithms for depressive disorders are being sought. Abnormal brain bioenergetic metabolism may represent an alternative, therapeutically targetable neurobiological basis for depression. A growing body of research points to endogenous ketones as candidate neuroprotective metabolites with the potential to enhance brain bioenergetics and improve mood. Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, originally approved for the treatment of diabetes, induce ketogenesis and are associated with mood improvement in population-based studies. In this column, we highlight the rationale for the hypothesis that ketogenesis induced by SGLT2 inhibitors may be an effective treatment for depressive disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":12915,"journal":{"name":"Harvard Review of Psychiatry","volume":"31 4","pages":"214-221"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9805847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ziad A Ali, Ben Sanders, Rif El-Mallakh, Melissa Mathews, Shawn Brown
{"title":"Treatment of Amphetamine-Induced Truman Show Delusion and Delusional Parasitosis with High-Dose Ziprasidone.","authors":"Ziad A Ali, Ben Sanders, Rif El-Mallakh, Melissa Mathews, Shawn Brown","doi":"10.1097/HRP.0000000000000369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/HRP.0000000000000369","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12915,"journal":{"name":"Harvard Review of Psychiatry","volume":"31 4","pages":"202-207"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9812988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carolina V Hernandorena, Ross J Baldessarini, Leonardo Tondo, Gustavo H Vázquez
{"title":"Status of Type II vs. Type I Bipolar Disorder: Systematic Review with Meta-Analyses.","authors":"Carolina V Hernandorena, Ross J Baldessarini, Leonardo Tondo, Gustavo H Vázquez","doi":"10.1097/HRP.0000000000000371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/HRP.0000000000000371","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Learning objectives after participating in this cme activity, the psychiatrist should be better able to: </strong>• Analyze and compare the different bipolar disorder (BD) types.• Identify markers that distinguish BD types and explain how the DSM-IV defines the disorder.</p><p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Since the status of type II bipolar disorder (BD2) as a separate and distinct form of bipolar disorder (BD) remains controversial, we reviewed studies that directly compare BD2 to type I bipolar disorder (BD1). Systematic literature searching yielded 36 reports with head-to-head comparisons involving 52,631 BD1 and 37,363 BD2 patients (total N = 89,994) observed for 14.6 years, regarding 21 factors (with 12 reports/factor). BD2 subjects had significantly more additional psychiatric diagnoses, depressions/year, rapid cycling, family psychiatric history, female sex, and antidepressant treatment, but less treatment with lithium or antipsychotics, fewer hospitalizations or psychotic features, and lower unemployment rates than BD1 subjects. However, the diagnostic groups did not differ significantly in education, onset age, marital status, [hypo]manias/year, risk of suicide attempts, substance use disorders, medical comorbidities, or access to psychotherapy. Heterogeneity in reported comparisons of BD2 and BD1 limits the firmness of some observations, but study findings indicate that the BD types differ substantially by several descriptive and clinical measures and that BD2 remains diagnostically stable over many years. We conclude that BD2 requires better clinical recognition and significantly more research aimed at optimizing its treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":12915,"journal":{"name":"Harvard Review of Psychiatry","volume":"31 4","pages":"173-182"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9805846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}