This audio program discusses a project in China that introduced psychiatry to thousands of rural physicians; how disorders of fear extinction could be used as a model for anxiety disorders; the validity of the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale; the connection between age at immigration and the future risk of psychotic disorders; and the relationship of childhood trauma to psychosis across different types of genetic risk, psychopathology, and trauma. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.

December 2011 Highlights

Each episode of AJP Audio brings you an in-depth look at one of the articles featured in that month’s issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry, the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association. Wide-ranging interviews with article authors cover the background, rationale, main findings, and future implications of the research.

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Ms. Sara Tramazzo (Stony Brook University) joins AJP Audio to discuss the long-term outlook for patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and other psychotic disorders over the course of 25 years.  Afterwards, Dr. Ned Kalin joins to discuss the rest of the June issue of AJP.   00:50     Tramazzo interview  01:55     Lower levels of recovery and remission than other long-term studies  03:01     Difficulties of following patients in long-term studies  04:35     Differences between recovery and remission  05:54     Clinical implications  07:49     Limitations  10:21     Follow up periods  11:17     Further research  12:39     Kalin interview  12:53     Tramazzo et al.  15:51     Erwin et al.  18:59     Van der Pluijm et al.  20:47     Vita et al.  23:08     Tamon et al.  25:06     Norman et al.   Transcript  Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to it.  Subscribe to the podcast here.  Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association.  Browse articles online.  How authors may submit their work.  Follow the journals of APA Publishing on Twitter.  E-mail us at ajp@psych.org

June 2024: Long-Term Course of Remission and Recovery in Psychotic Disorders

Dr. ReJoyce Green (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC) joins AJP Audio to discuss predictors of substance use initiation in a large cohort of early adolescents. Afterwards, AJP Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ned Kalin speaks with AJP Deputy Editor Dr. Kathleen Brady about the May issue of AJP, a special issue guest edited by Dr. Brady focusing on latest developments in the understanding and treatment of substance use disorders. Transcript   00:48     Green interview  03:04     Why is it important to study substance use initiation?  04:06     Social and family-related factors versus imaging and neurocognitive factors  05:58     Age and cohort concerns  07:15     Religious participation as a predictive factor  09:04     Clinical implications  11:03     Limitations  12:24     What’s next for your research?  13:36     Kalin and Brady interview  17:09     Green et al.  19:52     Morley et al.  23:34     Radoman et al.  26:21     Hoffman et al.  29:00     Blalock et al.  Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to it.  Subscribe to the podcast here.  Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association.  Browse articles online.  How authors may submit their work.  Follow the journals of APA Publishing on Twitter.  E-mail us at ajp@psych.org

May 2024: Predictors of Substance Use Initiation by Early Adolescence

Dr. Soonjo Hwang (University of Nebraska Medical Center) joins AJP Audio to discuss the response to intranasally-administered oxytocin in youths with severe irritability.  00:56     Hwang interview 02:09     Effects of oxytocin 05:45     Intranasal oxytocin 07:04     Potential adverse effects of oxytocin 08:08     Imaging 08:58     Preliminary investigations and clinical implications 09:51     Limitations 10:14     Further research 11:00     Kalin interview 11:33     Hwang et al. 14:43     Leibenluft et al. 15:39     Aggarwal et al. 18:22     Pezzoli et al. 21:34     Kendler et al. 23:30     Hou et al.   Transcript  Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to it.  Subscribe to the podcast here.  Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association.  Browse articles online.  How authors may submit their work.  Follow the journals of APA Publishing on Twitter.  E-mail us at ajp@psych.org

April 2024: Neural Responses to Intranasal Oxytocin in Youths With Severe Irritability

Dr. Drew Rothenberg (Duke University, Durham, NC) joins AJP Audio to discuss the long term, intergenerational impacts of the Fast Track program, and whether the mental health intervention lead to lasting improvements in mental health, including in the participants own children.     00:49     Rothenberg interview  04:36     A null result?  07:13     At risk children from high risk neighborhoods  08:00     Limitations  09:17     Demand for childhood mental health services and clinical implications  11:10     Further research  13:59     Kalin interview  14:12     Rothenberg et al.  16:12     Haller et al.  18:49     Poirot et al.  20:55     Ainsworth et al.  23:20     Rosenqvist et al.   Transcript  Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to it.  Subscribe to the podcast here.  Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association.  Browse articles online.  How authors may submit their work.  Follow the journals of APA Publishing on Twitter.  E-mail us at ajp@psych.org

March 2024: Intergenerational Effects of the Fast Track Intervention on Next-Generation Child Outcomes: A Preregistered Randomized Clinical Trial

Dr. Ofir Livne (Columbia University, New York) joins AJP Audio to discuss recent trends in the prevalence of cannabis use disorder in US veterans with and without psychiatric disorder diagnosis.  Dr. Ned Kalin joins afterwards to discuss how the rest of the February issue of AJP touches on cannabis use disorder and other substance use disorders.   00:31     Livne interview  03:16     Changes in the legal landscape surrounding cannabis use  05:17     The complex association between cannabis use and psychiatric disorders  07:20     Clinical implications  08:02     Limitations  09:44     Future directions for research  10:13     Kalin interview  10:30     Livne et al.  12:30     Gustafson et al.  14:44     Garland et al.  16:10     Wilson et al.  18:06     Huang et al.   Transcript Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to it.  Subscribe to the podcast here.  Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association.  Browse articles online.  How authors may submit their work.  Follow the journals of APA Publishing on Twitter.  E-mail us at ajp@psych.org

December 2011 Highlights

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