Somatic Disorders
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: Is it IBS? Blood test may offer conclusive answer
A new blood test could conclusively determine if a patient with chronic diarrhea has diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (D-IBS).
Cases That Test Your Skills
Sober today, but lethargic and confused
Mr. W, age 26, has a history of alcohol abuse and presents with new-onset altered mental status, weakness, increasing lethargy, and jaundice. How...
From the Editor
Psychoneurogastroenterology: The abdominal brain, the microbiome, and psychiatry
Existence of a gastrointestinal (GI) nervous system, distinct from the CNS that comprises the brain and spinal cord, has been recognized for more...
Cases That Test Your Skills
Young, pregnant, ataxic—and jilted
Ms. M, age 15, thirty-five weeks pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend, has difficulty walking. No neurologic cause can be found. What could be...
Pearls
Have you RULED O2uT medical illness in the presumptive psychiatric patient?
Pearls
Assessing tremor to rule out psychogenic origin: It’s tricky
Evidence-Based Reviews
Akathisia: Is restlessness a primary condition or an adverse drug effect?
Keep a discerning eye out for this adverse effect of antipsychotics and other drugs
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: Psychogenic seizure patients probably okay to drive
Savvy Psychopharmacology
How to modify psychotropic therapy for patients who have liver dysfunction
Police bring Ms. R, age 35, to the psychiatric ER after they find her asleep in a park. She is awake but drowsy, and states that she has a...
News
Brain changes identified in chronic fatigue syndrome
Key clinical point: Increased fractional anisotropy in the anterior right arcuate fasciculus may eventually serve as a biomarker for CFS if larger...