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Use of Atypical Antipsychotics in the Elderly

July 2008

by Elisa Cascade; Amir H. Kalali, MD; and Jeffrey L. Cummings, MD

Ms. Cascade is Vice President, Quintiles Inc./iGuard, Falls Church, Virginia; Dr. Kalali is Vice President, Global Therapeutic Group Leader CNS, Quintiles Inc., San Diego, California, and Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego; and Dr. Cummings is from the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

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The Struggle for Mental Healthcare in New Orleans—One Case at a Time

July 2008

by Mordecai N. Potash, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Tulane University Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Baseline Dissociation and Prospective Success in Special Forces Assessment and Selection

July 2008

by Charles A. Morgan III, MD, MA; Gary Hazlett, PsyD; Mike Dial-Ward, PhD;
Steven M. Southwick, MD

Drs. Morgan and Southwick are from the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Dr. Hazlett is with Woodward-Cody Specialty Consultants, Inc. and was with US Army Special Warfare Training Center Psychologists, Fort Bragg, North Carolina at the time of this study; and Dr. Dial-Ward is with FASOTRAGRUPAC, US NAS, North Island, Coronado, California.

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Psychotherapeutic and Adjunctive Pharmacologic Approaches to Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

July 2008

by Carolina D. Nisenoff, MD

Captain, United States Air Force, Medical Corps, Mental Health Clinic, 18th Medical Operations Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan.

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Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Pathologist’s View of Schizophrenia

July 2008

by Ronald Pies, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts USM, Boston, Massachusetts

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Performance-Enhancing Drugs: Where Should the Line be Drawn and by Whom?

July 2008

by Michael T. Lardon, MD

Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine

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Do Psychiatrists Use Structured Interviews In Real Clinical Settings?

July 2008

by Ahmed Aboraya, MD, DrPh

Dr. Aboraya is Chief of Psychiatry, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital, Weston, West Virginia

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Letters to the editor

July 2008

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