Medication Management of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Neurological Conditions: A Dimensional Transdiagnostic Approach.

Neuropsychiatric symptoms are prevalent in neurologic practice, but their complexity makes them challenging to manage. Many cognitive, affective, behavioral, and perceptual symptoms span multiple neurologic diagnoses-and there is prominent variability in neuropsychiatric symptom burden for a given condition. There is also a relative lack of robust controlled clinical trial evidence and expert consensus recommendations for a range of neuropsychiatric symptom presentations.

Behavioral abnormalities are common and severe in patients with distal 22q11.2 microdeletions and microduplications.

We describe six individuals with microdeletions and microduplications in the distal 22q11.2 region detected by microarray. Five of the abnormalities have breakpoints in the low-copy repeats (LCR) in this region and one patient has an atypical rearrangement.

Forensic neuropsychological evaluations in an academic medical center.

Within the expanding field of clinical neuropsychology, the subspecialty of forensic neuropsychology has developed. Currently, there is considerable diversity within the discipline as to how practitioners approach test selection, reports, and number of hours billed. How individuals handle these issues is subject to debate, but what is clear is that there are no specific guidelines as to how to conduct these evaluations.

Factors affecting medical student career choice of psychiatry from 1999 to 2001.

Objective: The proportion of students matching into psychiatry (PMP) at each medical school results from a complex interplay between extrinsic (e.g., national trends, geographic region) and intrinsic factors (e.