Review of Psilocybin Use for Depression among Cancer Patients after Approval in Oregon.

Despite the legalization of psilocybin therapy for depression in terminal illnesses such as advanced cancer through Oregon's Measure 109 in 2020, significant challenges have impeded its implementation. This review synthesizes the empirical data supporting the utilization of psilocybin therapy for addressing cancer-related depression, including an evaluation of its purported benefits and potential adverse effects. It provides a comprehensive examination of therapeutic strategies, dosing regimens, and barriers to ensuring responsible and equitable access.

Relationship Between Pericallosal Lipoma and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms: A Case Report.

Intracranial lipomas are extremely rare fat-containing lesions that occur due to the abnormal differentiation of embryonic meninges. Interhemispheric lipomas that are closely related to the corpus callosum are also referred to as pericallosal lipomas and are the most common subtype. Pericallosal lipomas are associated with varying degrees of dysgenesis of the corpus callosum and therefore have a broad clinical presentation.

Understanding Patient-Provider Interaction, Treatment Acceptance, and Outcomes in Medically Unexplained Symptoms.

Introduction: Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) is an umbrella term used for chronic and often disabling health symptoms and conditions that remain unexplained after standard medical examinations, testing, and/or appropriate workup. Patients with MUS tend to receive little to no treatment but remain distressed, stigmatized, and disabled by symptoms and iatrogenic factors.

Methods: A qualitative phenomenological study was conducted to explore daily challenges and psychosocial and iatrogenic factors affecting the management of MUS.

Abuse of tropicamide eye drops: review of clinical data.

Over the past 15 years, the increasing nonmedical use of tropicamide ophthalmic drops has been reported in Europe, coinciding with an increase in opioid addiction and drug-related mortality. Although tropicamide is generally known as a cheap alternative to heroin in Eastern Europe, it still appears to be a relatively new phenomenon that has arisen over the last decade. A narrative review was conducted of all the relevant sources published in more than five countries between January 1, 1975 and January 10, 2021.

Inpatient violence in a psychiatric hospital in the middle of the pandemic: clinical and community health aspects.

Healthcare workers are at a high risk of violence all over the world. The hostility toward nurses, physicians, and hospital staff has reached the point that it can be considered a public health problem. In this paper, we focus on the harassment, aggression, and violence that many healthcare workers have encountered while treating unstable psychiatric patients in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Malingering of Psychotic Symptoms in Psychiatric Settings: Theoretical Aspects and Clinical Considerations.

Malingering is the intentional production of false or grossly exaggerated physical or psychological symptoms motivated by external incentives. Although the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) does not list malingering in its diagnostic section and therefore does not identify it as a formal mental disorder, malingering and verified mental illness commonly coexist. Some subtypes of feigning behaviors, such as partial or pure malingering, dissimulation, and false imputation, can be suspected when patients have marked discrepancies between reported stressors and objective findings.

Challenges in Treating Cancer Patients With Unstable Psychiatric Disorder.

In this review, we first present a case of chronic myeloid leukemia with acute psychosis, and then we will discuss the incidence of cancer in patients with psychotic disorders, the manifestations of new-onset psychosis, and the prevalence of preexisting psychosis in cancer patients, coupled with their impact on the treatment, diagnosis, and prognosis of cancer. This was a case that presented with acute psychosis and was found to have an elevated white blood cell count upon admission to an inpatient psychiatric unit. He was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia and successfully managed with imatinib/dasatinib therapy.