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Psychopharmacy resources

 

 

 

Psychopharmacy resources

 

 

 

Psychopharmacy resources

 

 

 

Psychopharmacy resources
   

Papers

 

Olanzapine for the treatment of borderline personality disorder: variable dose 12-week randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study S. Charles Schulz, Mary C. Zanarini, Anthony Bateman, Martin Bohus, Holland C. Detke, Quynh Trzaskoma, Yoko Tanaka, Daniel Lin, Walter Deberdt, and Sara Corya ;Br J Psychiatry 2008 193: 485-492

 

Duration of antidepressant use during pregnancy and risk of major congenital malformations
Élodie Ramos, Martin St-André, Évelyne Rey, Driss Oraichi, and Anick Bérard ;Br J Psychiatry 2008 192: 344-350

 

Subunit-Selective Modulation of GABA Type A Receptor Neurotransmission and Cognition in Schizophrenia David A. Lewis, M.D., Raymond Y. Cho, M.D., Cameron S. Carter, M.D., Kevin Eklund, R.N., B.S.N., Sarah Forster, B.S., Mary Ann Kelly, Ph.D., and Debra Montrose, Ph.D., L.S.W; Am J Psychiatry 2008; 165:1585-1593

 

A UK consensus on the administration of aripiprazole for the treatment of mania. KJ Aitchison, M Bienroth, J Cookson, R Gray, PM Haddad, B Moore, L Ratna, G Sullivan, D Taylor, M Taylor, and GM Goodwin. J Psychopharmacol first published on November 14, 2008 as doi:10.1177/0269881108098820

 

Interrater reliability of the Antipsychotic Non-Neurological Side-Effects Rating Scale measured in patients treated with clozapine.Ohlsen RI, Williamson R, Yusufi B, Mullan J, Irving D, Mukherjee S, Page E, Aitchison KJ, Barnes TRE.  J Psychopharmacol 2008; 22; 323; DOI: 10.1177/0269881108091069

Change in sexual dysfunction on aripiprazole: a switching or add-on study.Mir A, Shivakumar K, Williamson RJ, McAllister VDM, O’Keane V, Aitchison KJ.  J Psychopharmacol 2008; 22; 244 originally published online Feb 28, 2008; DOI: 10.1177/0269881107082901

 

Antidepressants for Bipolar depression: A systematic review of Randomized controlled trials. Gijsman et al, Am J Psychiatry; 161:1537-1547.

 

Prediction of Antidepressant response to Milnacipran by Norepinephrine Transporter Gene Polymorphisms. Yoshida et al; Am J Psychiatry; 161:1575-1580

 

Preliminary RCT of Pramipexole added to mood stabilisers for Treatment resistant BPD.
Am J Psych 2004; 161: 564-566

 

Long Term Lithium therapy for BPD: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCT's.
Geddes et al, Am. J. Psych 2004; 161:2, 217-222.

 

Useful : Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Schizophrenia (2nd ed) Am J Psych Vol 161:2 2004 Supplement

 

Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders: blind alley in psychopharmacology and classification of disease
BMJ 2003;327:158-160 (19 July)

 

Type of antidepressant is not linked to suicide rates
BMJ 2003;327 (12 July)

Meltzer HY et al: Clozapine treatment for suicidality in schizophrenia.
Archives of General Psychiatry 2003;60:82-91

 

Assessment of independent effect of Olanzapine and risperidone on risk of diabetes among patients with schizophrenia
BMJ Aug 2002; 325 p243 [full text of article]

 

Antipsychotic drugs and cardiac arrest
BMJ Nov 2002; 325 p1070-1072 [full text of article]

 

50 years with Lithium treatment in affective disorders: Present and priorities
World Journal of Biological Psychiatry (Jan 2001) 2, 18-26

 

A comparison of risperidone and haloperidol for the prevention of relapse in patients with schizophrenia.
New England Journal of Medicine 2002; 346(1):16-22 [full text of article]

 

 

 

 


 

Links

Blog for posting comments or accessing latest news and articles of interest

 

Electronic Medicines Compendium

The electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) provides electronic Summaries of Product Characteristics (SPCs) and Patient Information Leaflets (PILs). Information on all licensed drugs in UK

 

Map of Medicine

Map of Medicine Healthguides is a web-based visual representation of evidence-based patient care journeys
covering 28 medical specialties and over 350 pathways

 

SuperEgo Cafe
A well constructed site that gives a wealth of information about many areas of psychiatric literature and is particularly useful for trainees.

 

British Association for Psychopharmacology
Lectures and courses on psychopharmacology run by the BAP nationally with links to consensus statements.

 

European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Information on ECNP congresses and annual meetings as well as limited access to the European Psychopharmacology journal.

 

Mental Health Net
American mental health information site with well explained subject divisions for all psychiatric diagnoses.

 

Norfolk Mental Health Trust - pharmacy medication information website
Well layed out pharmacy information on all drugs as well as local information about Norfolk/East Anglia mental health and pharmacy services.

 

Psychopharmacology resources
Links to all major pharmaceutical company websites and some other useful sites such as P450 drug interactions.

 

American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
Rather obscure site with lots of member only information related to profession specific issues.

 

Medic8.com
Americn site dedicated to all medical specialties with only limited relevance to psychopharmacology or mental health. Good link to other databases and very useful alerts page.

 

Medicines Control Agency
Publications and copious information related to the function of the MCA.

 

Pharmacy On-Line
International Journal of Pharmacy with additional useful links to specific drug-related articles titled "Focus on..."

 

Psychopharmacology Tips
Some topical discussions by American site members alongside links to other useful sites that are drug or syndrome related.

 

Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Predominantly related to professional issues regarding pharmacy training. Limited online information.

 

US Food and Drug Administration
US equivalent to MCA with lots of very up-to-date information about drug pharmacovigilance. It does have a copious quantity of information about food to sift through however.

 

 

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