Volume 26 - Issue 1 - January 2020
Second-generation antipsychotic medications (SGAs) have advanced the treatment of schizophrenia over the past 30 years. However, a number of potentially life-threatening cardiac side-effects associated with these treatments concern and can discourage prescribers from administering these evidence-based treatments. In this article (26–40), authors Sweeney et al provide a practical, psychiatrist-oriented understanding of the relative frequencies, mechanisms, investigations and treatments associated with these cardiac toxicities. They aim to highlight that these are relatively rare complications of an effective class of drug and to promote the advantages of early involvement of cardiologists in the psychiatric multidisciplinary team to guide the investigation and management of these conditions. ©iStockphoto/fruttipics
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Cochrane corner
Vitamin and mineral supplementation for maintaining cognitive function in cognitively healthy people in mid and late life: a Cochrane Review
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Can dietary supplements maintain cognition in mid- to late-life?: COMMENTARY ON… COCHRANE CORNER
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Reforming fitness to plead and stand trial legislation in England and Wales
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- 11 September 2019, pp. 8-15
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Psychiatric assessment of adults in care proceedings
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- 18 September 2019, pp. 16-25
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Understanding and managing cardiac side-effects of second-generation antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia
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- 11 September 2019, pp. 26-40
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Guns and psychiatry: what psychiatrists need to know
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- 10 May 2019, pp. 41-47
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Psychiatrists should tread cautiously in firearms risk assessment: COMMENTARY… GUNS AND PSYCHIATRY
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Bordering on the bipolar: a review of criteria for ICD-11 and DSM-5 persistent mood disorders
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- 10 October 2019, pp. 50-57
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Threading a pathway through the forest of mood and personality disorders: COMMENTARY ON… Bordering on the bipolar
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- 19 December 2019, pp. 58-60
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Clinical reflection
How should we manage bipolar II disorder in the perinatal period?
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- 06 May 2019, pp. 61-63
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BJA volume 26 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
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BJA volume 26 issue 1 Cover and Back matter
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