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2026-01-14 | RESEARCH

Steeper on current exposure than on cumulative: valproate and PCOS in a Danish register

The authors state their own conclusion this way: valproate exposure was associated with an increased risk of polycystic ovary syndrome in women with bipolar disorder or epilepsy, with the strongest associations observed for current cumulative exposure and additional risk apparent at high cumulative dosages, while overall cumulative exposure showed a less clear dose-response pattern.

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2026-07-01 | RESEARCH

Benefit-risk arithmetic for monthly aripiprazole: the harm column was built from relapses

The authors conclude that "Data suggest a favorable benefit-risk profile for AOM 400 versus placebo as a long-term maintenance treatment for BP-I", and all four of the paper's benefit-harm ratios are built on who stopped attending, while the akathisia in 21.2% of patients and the weight gain in 23.5% are printed one table earlier and never enter them.

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2026-04-25 | TOOL

Counted by the decade: the lithium renal algorithm and the patient who pays over forty years

The sentence the authors placed in their conclusion and not in their abstract: lithium treatment should neither be withheld nor continued reflexively solely on the basis of renal concerns, and what replaces the reflex is an individualized, trajectory-based assessment that balances substantial therapeutic benefit against renal risk, preserving lithium's role as a first-line treatment while safeguarding long-term patient health.

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2025-02-16 | INDUSTRY

Eleven cards out of 127: what Russian psychiatrists entered as the reason for changing bipolar treatment

A switch or augmentation of therapy is required by no less than a third of patients taking antipsychotics, the author concludes on pages 31 to 32, and quetiapine is perceived by psychiatrists as a highly effective and well tolerated antipsychotic with a broad spectrum of action going beyond the official indications; his own closing sentence adds that doctors' ideas about the antiresistant properties of the drug require confirmation in real clinical practice and in randomised trials. The article is sponsored by NovaMedica, and a patient entered the programme only if the treating doctor had already decided on quetiapine.

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RESEARCH
Steeper on current exposure than on cumulative: valproate and PCOS in a Danish register
The authors state their own conclusion this way: valproate exposure was associated with an increased risk of polycystic ovary syndrome in women with bipolar disorder or epilepsy, with the strongest associations observed for current cumulative exposure and additional risk apparent at high cumulative dosages, while overall cumulative exposure showed a less clear dose-response pattern.
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders · 2026-01-14Read
RESEARCH
Benefit-risk arithmetic for monthly aripiprazole: the harm column was built from relapses
The authors conclude that "Data suggest a favorable benefit-risk profile for AOM 400 versus placebo as a long-term maintenance treatment for BP-I", and all four of the paper's benefit-harm ratios are built on who stopped attending, while the akathisia in 21.2% of patients and the weight gain in 23.5% are printed one table earlier and never enter them.
Journal of Affective Disorders · 2026-07-01Read
RESEARCH
Admissions, not craving scores: what a Swedish register found for four alcohol medicines
The outcome here is an admission recorded by a national register rather than anything a patient or a clinician rated, and the deaths of 4,565 people in the cohort were used to end observation rather than counted as an outcome.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica · 2025-03-17Read
RESEARCH
Three times the deaths, and the usual risk chart stops predicting all-cause mortality: six years of follow-up in Russian narcology patients
The outcome here is a death certificate rather than a craving score, and it shows that a patient admitted to a narcology ward carries three times the all-cause mortality of a low-risk drinker, with a modelled ninefold for external causes that rests on 20 deaths and a very wide confidence interval, from 2.63 to 33.3.
BMC Public Health · 2024-11-12Read
RESEARCH
Where the Lesion Sits Adds a Little – and Only at the Dementia End
The lesion map earns its keep at the dementia end of the spectrum and goes quiet exactly where an early marker would be worth having.
Alzheimer's Research & Therapy · 2026-04-15Read
RESEARCH
Latrepirdine comes back: 3.36 ADAS-cog points on top of memantine, and nothing else moves
A cognitive score moved by three and a half points while daily function only held level and no change in quality of life was reported, and that gap is not a pharmacological problem.
Scientific Reports · 2026-05-15Read
RESEARCH
The Empty Cell Was Built Into the Questionnaire: Dissociative PTSD and Dissociative Complex PTSD in 57,984 Chinese Adolescents
The zero cell in this table is not a discovery about complex PTSD; it is a consequence of scoring the complex PTSD subscale from the PTSD items plus two.
European Journal of Psychotraumatology · 2026-06-10Read
RESEARCH
Dissociation predicts a flatter response to trauma-focused PTSD therapy. It does not disqualify the patient
In this post hoc analysis baseline dissociation predicted a smaller gain, not a failed treatment: nobody in the trial reliably worsened, and the heaviest dissociators whose symptoms shifted early gained the most.
Psychological Medicine · 2025-02-24Read
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Counted by the decade: the lithium renal algorithm and the patient who pays over forty years
The sentence the authors placed in their conclusion and not in their abstract: lithium treatment should neither be withheld nor continued reflexively solely on the basis of renal concerns, and what replaces the reflex is an individualized, trajectory-based assessment that balances substantial therapeutic benefit against renal risk, preserving lithium's role as a first-line treatment while safeguarding long-term patient health.
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders · 2026-04-25Read
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Twelve weeks of vouchers or six: what STAR-OM settled in fifteen Vietnamese methadone clinics
The trial is called Screen, Treat and Retain, and retention in methadone treatment is neither among the outcomes it reports nor among the sixteen it registered: what it reports is methamphetamine-negative urine, twice a week, for 25 weeks.
The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia · 2026-04-24Read
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Six sessions, a manual and a psychology graduate: what DREAMS START can and cannot show
This trial has no objective sleep outcome at all: the registered actigraphy was usable in 22.3% of dyads at 8 months, and every reported number came from the unmasked family carer.
Health Technology Assessment (NIHR Journals Library) · 2026-02-01Read
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The nest position: two blankets, a severely dissociative sample, and the limits of one session
The registered primary outcome had two halves, and the physiological half was null in both groups at every phase.
BJPsych Open · 2025-09-10Read
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INDUSTRY
Eleven cards out of 127: what Russian psychiatrists entered as the reason for changing bipolar treatment
A switch or augmentation of therapy is required by no less than a third of patients taking antipsychotics, the author concludes on pages 31 to 32, and quetiapine is perceived by psychiatrists as a highly effective and well tolerated antipsychotic with a broad spectrum of action going beyond the official indications; his own closing sentence adds that doctors' ideas about the antiresistant properties of the drug require confirmation in real clinical practice and in randomised trials. The article is sponsored by NovaMedica, and a patient entered the programme only if the treating doctor had already decided on quetiapine.
Nevrologiya, neiropsikhiatriya, psikhosomatika (Neurology, Neuropsychiatry, Psychosomatics) · 2025-02-16Read
INDUSTRY
Two outcomes and nothing else: what Japan's national claims database counts as a result in bipolar disorder
The authors' head conclusion is that mono- and combination therapy exhibited substantial heterogeneity in their effectiveness for preventing psychiatric hospitalisation, and that hospitalisation, together with hospitalisation of any cause, is the whole of what this publication measures.
The British Journal of Psychiatry · 2026-04-30Read
INDUSTRY
One barrier removed, four in five still without buprenorphine: the large count after the X-waiver
The waiver disappeared and the share of newly diagnosed adults given buprenorphine moved from 18.8% to 19.6%, while retention, overdose and death were not measured at all.
Substance Use & Addiction Journal · 2026-01-30Read
INDUSTRY
Twenty-three areas out of thirty are green or blue on four standards: how Scotland closed a five-year mission against drug deaths
After page 12 the report gives no mortality figure at all: not in the results, not in the overview, not in the conclusion, not in the appendices.
Public Health Scotland · 2026-07-07Read
INDUSTRY
Eight per cent eligible: a US model prices the anti-amyloid pathway against dementia care
Eligibility, not effect size, decides the national arithmetic: 1.03 million people can receive the drug, 6.16 million can receive the care.
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging · 2026-02-05Read
INDUSTRY
After the dementia diagnosis, the prescription outlasts the guidance
The first antipsychotic course in dementia runs to a model-adjusted median of seven months in a system whose guidance is written in weeks.
The Lancet Psychiatry · 2025-09-17Read
INDUSTRY
Two Thirds Leave Early: 100,177 Veterans and the Delivery Problem in US Trauma Care
A system can disseminate a protocol nationwide and still deliver a full course to only about a third of the patients who begin one.
Journal of Traumatic Stress (Wiley, for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) · 2025-10-24Read
INDUSTRY
A Russian complex-PTSD dataset, and the dissociation it never measured
A questionnaire with no items on depersonalisation cannot tell you how common depersonalisation is.
Клиническая и специальная психология (Clinical Psychology and Special Education), МГППУ · 2025-12-30Read
INDUSTRY
MamaLift Plus Against Its Own Sham: What the Paper Reports and What the Registry Records
The developer funded the investigation, blinding was never tested, and the registry, filed after the trial had closed, lists two primary outcomes where the paper reports one.
Journal of Medical Internet Research · 2025-07-01Read
INDUSTRY
Read the control column: a 288-patient Russian panic disorder trial
An inert tablet produced a little under half the measured improvement, and the abstract puts adverse events at 44.44 percent in that same control column.
S.S. Korsakov Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry (Media Sphera) · 2025-12-30Read
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Four weeks, three months, two years: NICE CG185 times every taper and sets no threshold for planned withdrawal
The guideline times every taper to the week and specifies immediate withdrawal when the liver or the blood count says so; for planned stopping of maintenance treatment, sections 1.7 and 1.10 name no threshold in episodes or months of remission and leave the moment inside a required conversation.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), developed within the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health · 2025-09-02Read
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Twenty-six modules, eight credits and no patient outcome: what British Columbia's free opioid agonist course actually certifies
The programme counts completions, preceptors and prescribers; its own report measures neither retention in treatment nor overdoses nor deaths, and names retention once, among next year's plans.
BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU), with the UBC Faculty of Medicine Division of Continuing Professional Development · 2025-03-31Read
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WHO iSupport: a free 23-lesson carer manual, four PDFs on one IRIS record, and one null trial
The manual is a content base, not a stand-alone intervention: the largest iSupport trial to date found no separation from usual care when carers were left to work through it alone.
World Health Organization (WHO IRIS) · 2019-05-20Read
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The tenth ESTD congress: Lisbon, 1–3 October, with the whole programme already public
One plenary places EMDR as an adjunct rather than a treatment for dissociative identity disorder, another asks when and how to use it, and reading both beats any paragraph that settles the question for you.
European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD) · 2026-10-01Read

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