J Acad Consult Liaison Psychiatry
June 2024
Background: Human trafficking involves coerced labor or sex. THRIVE, a multidisciplinary University of Miami clinic for trafficked persons, transitioned to a hybrid telehealth model during the COVID-19 pandemic. Th is paper presents appointment data across THRIVE clinic services during this transition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough multiple myeloma (MM) can cause various neurological complications, direct central nervous system (CNS) involvement is exceedingly uncommon and poorly understood. There has been one other reported case in the literature of a patient presenting with psychosis prior to diagnosis of MM. We present a case of a 58-year-old female with no history of psychiatric illness who presented to a behavioral health inpatient unit with paranoid delusions, multisensory hallucinations, and disorganized behavior in the days preceding her MM diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Little is understood about child welfare involvement (CWI) in cases where the birth mother has experienced human trafficking.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore provider perceptions of the impact of CWI for the trafficked mother.
Methods: Participants were selected among providers caring for trafficked birth mothers.
Some of the latest advances in personalized psychiatry with future research directions are discussed in this article. Many factors contribute to the phenotypic psychiatric profile in individual patients. These overlapping factors include but are not limited to genetics, epigenetics, central nervous system circuit alterations, family history, past personal history, environmental influences including early life stress, and more recent life stressors.
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