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Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA.
Background: Patients with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease may experience multiple different agitation symptoms - including excessive motor activity, verbal aggression, and physical aggression - at varying frequencies. The efficacy of brexpiprazole 2 or 3 mg/day on 29 individual agitation behaviors (Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory [CMAI] items) was previously evaluated. Building upon that work, this post hoc analysis aimed to determine the efficacy of brexpiprazole on the same individual agitation behaviors, but specifically focusing on those patients who were frequently experiencing the behaviors at baseline.
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January 2025
Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Objective: Patients with schizophrenia value improved life engagement, a term that describes positive health aspects across emotional, physical, social, and cognitive domains. This analysis of clinical trial data aimed to investigate the effect of brexpiprazole on patient life engagement in schizophrenia over the short and long term.
Methods: Data were pooled from three 6-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.
Headache
January 2025
Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bangalore, India.
Objective: This systematic review aims to consolidate and analyze the existing evidence on Tolosa-Hunt syndrome (THS) in the pediatric population, focusing on clinical features, diagnostic challenges, treatment outcomes, and prognosis.
Background: Tolosa-Hunt syndrome is a rare headache disorder caused by idiopathic inflammation of the cavernous sinus, orbital apex, or orbit, resulting in neuro-ophthalmological manifestations. It is uniquely characterized by cranial nerve palsies and often responds well to steroids.
Front Psychiatry
December 2024
Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP), Instituto de Psiquiatria, São Paulo, Brazil.
Objective: This study presents a case series of five women with zolpidem dependence treated at the Drug Dependent Women Treatment Center (PROMUD), one of the first women-specific substance use disorder outpatient services in Latin America.
Methods: This was an retrospective review of medical records of patients with a diagnosis of zolpidem dependence at the Institute of Psychiatry of Clinics Hospital of University of São Paulo between December 2021 and December 2023. Description of the cases followed the Case Report Statement, Checklist and Guidelines (CARE).
Int J Rheum Dis
January 2025
The First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.
The APLAR has published a set of recommendations on the management of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in 2021. The current consensus paper supplements and updates specifically the treatment of lupus nephritis (LN) according to two rounds of Delphi exercise from members of the APLAR SLE special interest group, invited nephrologists, histopathologists, and lupus nephritis patients. For initial treatment of LN, we recommend a combination of glucocorticoids (GCs) with cyclophosphamide (CYC), mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), or the calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) as first-line options.
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