Depression
What is depression? A depressive disorder is a whole-body illness, involving the body, mood, and thoughts, and affects the way a person eats and sleeps, feels about themselves, and thinks. It is not the same as being unhappy or in a blue mood. Also called major depressive disorder or clinical depression, it affects how you […]
Antidepressant Augmentation Strategies in Unipolar Depressive Disorders
What is the evidence base? This lecture focuses on Augmentation, adding a second treatment to ongoing antidepressant treatment. David L. Fogelson, M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Augmentation Strategies Pharmaceuticals with and without FDA indication for antidepressant augmentation Nutraceuticals Psychostimulation Psychotherapy Principles of […]
Diagnosis and Treatment of Major Depression in Adolescence
David L. Fogelson, M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA And The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA Mary Presents with frequent school absences Stomach aches Difficulty sleeping due to stomach pain Missing school frequently Sad nearly all the time Recent onset of the following symptoms Can’t […]
Off-Label Use of Atypical Antipsychotics: An Update
Summary of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality “AHRQ” Report David L. Fogelson, M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA And The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA Suggested Citation for most material in this presentation Maglione M, Ruelaz Maher A, Hu J, Wang Z, Shanman […]
Avoidant personality disorder symptoms in first-degree relatives of schizophrenia patients predict performance on neurocognitive measures
The UCLA family study Whether avoidant personality disorder symptoms are related to neurocognitive impairments that aggregate in relatives of schizophrenics is unknown. We report the relationship between avoidant personality disorder symptoms and neurocognitive performance in the first-degree relatives of probands with schizophrenia. 367 first-degree relatives of probands with schizophrenia and 245 relatives of community controls […]
Avoidant personality disorder is a separable schizophrenia-spectrum personality disorder
Even when controlling for the presence of paranoid and schizotypal personality disorders The UCLA family study It is unresolved whether avoidant personality disorder (APD) is an independent schizophrenia (Sz)-spectrum personality disorder (PD). Some studies find APD and social anxiety symptoms (Sxs) to be separable dimensions of psychopathology in relatives (Rels) of schizophrenics while other studies […]