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Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Controversial Diagnosis

March 2009

by Paulette Marie Gillig, MD, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
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Clozapine-induced Bowel Infarction: A Case Report

March 2009

by Nicholas D. McKinnon, MD, Capt, USAF, MC; Alvi Azad, DO, Capt, USAF, MC; Brian M. Waters, MD, Capt, USAF, MC; and Kaustubh G. Joshi, MD, Maj, USAF, MC, FS

Drs. McKinnon and Azad are general psychiatry residents with US Air Force (Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, Texas) and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas; Dr. Waters is inpatient staff psychiatrist with US Air Force (Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, Texas); and Dr. Joshi is Psychiatry Department Chairman and Chief of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry with US Air Force (Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, Texas).
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Borderline Personality Symptomatology, Casual Sexual Relationships, and Promiscuity

March 2009

by Randy A. Sansone, MD, and Michael W. Wiederman, PhD

Dr. Sansone is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio, and Director of Psychiatry Education at Kettering Medical Center in Kettering, Ohio. Dr. Wiederman is a professor in psychology in the Department of Human Relations at Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina.
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The Use of Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trials for the Approval of Psychiatric Drugs: Part I—Statistics and the Case for the “Greater Good”

March 2009

by David Feifel, MD, PhD

Dr. Feifel is Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Program; Director, UCSD Adult ADHD Program, University of California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, California.
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Using Nonevidence-based Approaches to Treat Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

March 2009

by Edmund Howe, MD, JD

Dr. Howe is Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Director, Programs in Medical Ethics, and Senior Scientist, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.
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Treatment of Schizoaffective Disorder

March 2009

by Elisa Cascade; Amir H. Kalali, MD; and Peter Buckley, MD

Ms. Cascade is Vice President, Quintiles Inc./iGuard, Falls Church, Virginia; Dr. Kalali is Vice President, Global Therapeutic Group Leader CNS, Quintiles Inc., San Diego, California, and Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego; and Dr. Buckley is Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia.

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