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Patient Barriers to Long Acting Injectables for Schizophrenia Treatment
Dr. Sanjai Rao and nurse practitioner Kimberly Garcia explain the barriers patients face in getting treatment with long-acting injectables and how COVID-19 has affected patient care.
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Advantages of Treating Schizophrenia with Long Acting Injectables
Experts discuss the advantages of using the longest-acting injection formulation to treat schizophrenia, and whether there’s a need to discuss LAIs with patients from onset of illness.
Mapping the Mind
How can we enhance our understanding of the human brain?
Flip Back Through the 2021 Issues
Which 2021 cover was your favorite?
Urgent Care for Mental Health
How can we address—and solve—2 of the biggest hurdles for patients in receiving mental health care?
The Importance of Self-Care, Especially Around the Holidays
Are you taking care of yourself?
Administration of Available Long Acting Injectables for Schizophrenia
Kimberly Garcia, DNP, CRNP, and Sanjai Rao, MD, DFAPA, review the administration frequencies of long acting injectables risperidone, aripiprazole, and paliperidone.
Advancing Psychoanalytic Thought
How is the Sigourney Award helping expand the boundaries of psychoanalytic thinking?
Discussing Long Acting Injectables for Schizophrenia with Patients
Sanjai Rao, MD, DFAPA, starts a conversation on how to discuss long acting injectables with patients and how to best transition from an oral medication.
Will We Fill Our New Year Eve Glass: Half Full or Half Empty
Are you ready for 2022?
Presentation: Improvement of Narcolepsy Symptoms with Once-Nightly Sodium Oxybate
Dr Clete Kushida discusses the results of a phase 3 clinical trial that examined once-nightly sodium oxybate in patients with narcolepsy.
Civility During the Holidays
To have the best possible holidays, you've got to keep things civil and copacetic.
Let's Talk About Partial Agonists and Antagonist/Partial Agonists
Is that drug a partial agonist … or a partial agonist?
Holiday Foods to Boost Willpower
What can you put on your plate this holiday season to keep your body and mind healthy?
First Inoculation
".... I’m consigned to wait while the baby gets an injection..."
Education on the Importance of Naloxone
New Delivery Option for Ketamine
How can new formulations of ketamine impact patient care?
Treating Schizophrenia with Long Acting Injectables
Nurse Practitioner Kimberly Garcia and Dr. Sanjai Rao have a discussion on how they treat schizophrenia and highlight the considerations of prescribing long-acting injectables.
Schizophrenia and Treatment Adherence
Key opinion leaders comment on how to monitor and increase patient treatment adherence to prevent relapse.
Resiliency in BPD Treatment
Why is resiliency important for patients with borderline personality disorder—and the clinicians who treat them?
Hungry for More
How can you manage your patients’ hunger in a wholehearted way?
One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
"I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul..."
The Role of Technology in Addressing Isolation of Older Adults
Seniors living independently have suffered isolation during the pandemic. What role can technology play in solving this?
Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Relapse
Sanjai Rao, MD, DFAPA, and Kimberly Garcia, DNP, CRNP, discuss how practitioners diagnose a schizophrenia relapse, and how to discuss relapse with patients.
Prevalence and Treatment Challenges of Schizophrenia
Kimberly Garcia, DNP, CRNP, explains how widespread schizophrenia is and the challenges and unmet needs of treatment.
Tie One On
What do psychiatrists wear during and after work, and what meaning does it hold?
From Survive to Thrive
How can clinicians help patients get well, stay well, and reach their full potential?
Listening To Terry Gross
"Back in the 70’s, before I knew my own voice, I listened to yours..."
What About Love of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving may be over, but there's always time to be thankful.
Saving Lives with Project Lifesaver
Many individuals with dementia wander. How can caregivers keep their loved ones with dementia safe?