psychiatric
2010-2011 Psychiatric Pharmacy Review Course - ACPE Credit Only
The Psychiatric Pharmacy Review Course (Review Course) is an excellent course of study and resource for those seeking a review of psychopharmacology and current standards of care. Read more about this session.
US Psychiatric Residents’ Treatment of Patients With Bipolar Disorder
Abstract: We aimed to evaluate the practice patterns of US postgraduate year (PGY) levels 3 and 4 psychiatric residents in the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder (BD) types I and II. We also aimed to determine whether confidence in prescribing mood stabilizers is associated with residents’ practice patterns. The residency training directors of 182 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education–accredited US psychiatric residencies were solicited for study participation via e-mail.
Hijacking Hebb: Noninvasive Methods to Probe Plasticity in Psychiatric Disease
Among the most celebrated cellular mechanisms for learning and memory, long-term potentiation (LTP) has received enormous attention by neuroscientists for 40 years (). The basic phenomenon is elegant and simple: coincident pre- and postsynaptic activity induced typically by a high-frequency stimulus (HFS) produces a long-lasting enhancement of excitatory synaptic transmission.