Rapid Telepsychiatry Implementation During COVID-19: Increased Attendance at the Largest Health System in the United States.

Objective: This study aimed to examine differences in completion rates between telepsychiatry and in-person visits during the COVID-19 pandemic and a prior reference period.

Methods: The authors used electronic medical record data along with chi-squared or t tests to compare patients' demographic characteristics. Generalized estimating equations for estimating the odds of primary and secondary outcomes were used, controlling for demographic characteristics.

Maintaining a Bronx inpatient psychiatry service at full capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present an overview of rapidly transformed workflows on our inpatient psychiatry service during COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in New York.

Conclusion: Rapidly transformed workflows, staffing patterns and discharge policies, as well as programs addressing the emotional and social needs of our staff enabled us to not only run our service without interruptions and maintain full inpatient census but also prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Practice Implications: The challenges we faced and lessons we learned can be easily applied to other inpatient psychiatry services as we anticipate the second surge of COVID-19 infection.

Atypical response inhibition and error processing in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome and schizophrenia: Towards neuromarkers of disease progression and risk.

22q11.2 deletion syndrome (also known as DiGeorge syndrome or velo-cardio-facial syndrome) is characterized by increased vulnerability to neuropsychiatric symptoms, with approximately 30% of individuals with the deletion going on to develop schizophrenia. Clinically, deficits in executive function have been noted in this population, but the underlying neural processes are not well understood.

Long-term Dextromethorphan Use and Acute Intoxication Results in an Episode of Mania and Autoenucleation.

: The pharmacologic and neuropsychiatric sequelae of long-term dextromethorphan use and acute dextromethorphan intoxication are reviewed in this case report. Dextromethorphan ingestion at the high end of toxicity, although rare, can cause violence to oneself and others, even in those previously without any history of such behaviors. In this article, the neuropsychiatric consequences of dextromethorphan toxicity are highlighted in a case report of a 37-year-old woman who had been using dextromethorphan for 5 years.