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Efficacy of Brexpiprazole and Sertraline for the Treatment of PTSD
Keypoint: A poster at the 2024 ASCP Annual Meeting shared data from 3 randomized clinical trials on the safety and tolerability of this...
Vilash Reddy, MD
Jun 7, 20243 min read
Polypharmacy in Older Adults
Keypoint: Clinicians should carefully weigh the risks and benefits of each prescribed medication for an older adult with neuropsychiatric...
Vilash Reddy, MD
Jun 7, 20247 min read
What to Expect if MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Gets Approved by the FDA
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is a psychopharmacological agent with effects that include the enhancement of empathy, prosocial...
Vilash Reddy, MD
Jun 6, 20244 min read
Evaluating the Efficacy of Lumateperone for MDD and Bipolar Depression With Mixed Features
Keypoint: A poster presented at the 2024 ASCP Annual Meeting discussed the results of a study analyzing the treatment’s safety and...
Vilash Reddy, MD
Jun 6, 20243 min read
Critical Care Psychiatry: The Value of Psychiatrists in the ICU
Keypoint: In this CME article, learn more about common clinical conditions, consultation questions, and challenges in the field of...
Vilash Reddy, MD
Jun 5, 202413 min read
Teen Cannabis Use Tied to Dramatic Increased Risk for Psychosis
Teenagers who use cannabis have a dramatic increased risk for a psychotic disorder compared with their counterparts who don't use the...
Vilash Reddy, MD
Jun 5, 20243 min read
Physician Burnout by Specialty & Other Physician Mental Health Statistics
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians continue to experience burnout at alarmingly high rates. In a recent survey of 2440...
Vilash Reddy, MD
Jun 5, 20244 min read
Promising Topline Results for Drug to Treat Concomitant Depression and Insomnia
Seltorexant, an investigational drug being developed by Johnson & Johnson, met all primary and secondary endpoints in a phase 3 trial of...
Vilash Reddy, MD
Jun 4, 20242 min read
Revisiting Modafinil/Armodafinil for the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
Keypoint: An expert shares some lessons learned from prior research on the treatment and suggestions for a way forward at the 2024 ASCP...
Vilash Reddy, MD
Jun 4, 20243 min read
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms an Important, Overlooked Feature of Lupus
Neuropsychiatric symptoms, including nightmares and hallucinatory "daymares," may be a more important aspect of systemic lupus...
Vilash Reddy, MD
Jun 4, 20248 min read
DOJ Officially Moves to Reclassify Marijuana as Schedule III
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) officially moved to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III controlled substance on Thursday, marking a...
Vilash Reddy, MD
Jun 3, 20242 min read
New Data on Psychiatric Polypharmacy and Unwanted Weight Gain
Keypoint: A recent study analyzed longitudinal data of patients with schizophrenia or major depressive disorder to rank treatment...
Vilash Reddy, MD
May 30, 20243 min read
Longitudinal Study Looks at Risk of Cardiovascular Disease With Long-Term ADHD Medication Use
Keypoint: A study assessed the associations between the use of ADHD medications and CVD over the course of 14 years. Here's what the...
Vilash Reddy, MD
May 30, 20244 min read
When It Comes to Medicine, ‘Women Are Not Small Men’
Welcome everyone. I'm Dr. John White. I'm the chief medical officer at WebMD. Does your biologic sex impact your health? Does it have any...
Vilash Reddy, MD
May 30, 20245 min read
Polypharmacy in Traumatic Brain Injury
Keypoint:Polypharmacy is often overlooked in patients with significant traumatic brain injury. How can you best manage medication in...
Vilash Reddy, MD
May 29, 20244 min read
Weight-Adjusted Waist Index and Depressive Symptoms in a Nationally Representative Sample
Keypoint: A more useful measure than BMI or waist circumference? Researchers analyzed the association between weight-adjusted waist index...
Vilash Reddy, MD
May 29, 20243 min read
Ultraprocessed Foods an Independent Risk Factor for Poor Brain Health
Consuming highly processed foods may be harmful to the aging brain, independent of other risk factors for adverse neurologic outcomes and...
Vilash Reddy, MD
May 29, 20244 min read
Suicide in Surgeons: The Heavy Toll of a High-Stakes Career
For those outside the medical profession, it took a global pandemic to finally understand how pervasive distress and suicide are among...
Vilash Reddy, MD
May 28, 20245 min read
Promoting Mental Health in Schools
The declining mental health of children and adolescents is a tremendous concern. In the United States, almost 20% of those age 3 to 17...
Vilash Reddy, MD
May 27, 20245 min read
Deep Brain Stimulation an Option for Chronic Low Back Pain?
Preliminary 6-month results from the first-in-human trial of deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subgenual singulate cortex (SCC) for...
Vilash Reddy, MD
May 27, 20243 min read
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