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Schizophrenia

Friday's Progress Notes - October 27, 2000
Mental Health Information - Vol. 4 Issue 32
Published by athealth.com - http://www.athealth.com

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CONTENTS

1. Treatment algorithm for schizophrenia
2. Practice guideline for treatment of schizophrenia
3. Assessment and treatment of schizophrenia
4. Diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia
5. OCD in schizophrenia
6. Medications for mental illness

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Dear Colleagues,

Schizophrenia, an often-misunderstood brain disease, affects about 1% of the population worldwide. Comorbid conditions include impairment of cognitive function, depression, obsessive-compulsive behavior, substance abuse, and aggressive behavior. Today's newsletter focuses on this complex and disabling mental illness.

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John L. Miller, MD

1. TEXAS MEDICATION ALGORITHM PROJECT
Schizophrenia Guidelines Manual
The goal of the algorithm project is to improve the quality of treatment to public sector patients, while containing cost of services over a patient's lifetime. (Adobe Acrobat Reader needed.)
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/mhprograms/pdf/timasczman.pdf

2. AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Schizophrenia
The guidelines include sections on disease definition, treatment principles and alternatives, implementation of a treatment plan, and clinical and environmental features influencing treatment.
http://www.psychiatryonline.com/pracGuide/pracGuideTopic_6.aspx

3. NATIONAL COLLABORATING CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH
Management of Persons with Psychoses
The practice parameters address diagnostic assessment, diagnostic formulation, and treatment issues.

4. SURGEON GENERAL'S REPORT
Schizoprhenia
Schizophrenia is characterized by profound disruption in cognition and emotion, affecting the most fundamental human attributes: language, thought, perception, affect, and sense of self.

5. JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROSCIENCE
Comorbidity and pathophysiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder in schizophrenia: Is there evidence for a schizo-obsessive subtype of schizophrenia?
Epidemiologic and neurobiologic evidence suggests that patients with comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia may represent a special category among patients with schizophrenia.
http://www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/43815/la_id/1.htm

6. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
Medications for Mental Illness
This booklet is designed to help mental health patients and their families understand how and why medications can be used as part of the treatment of mental health problems.
http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/mcabinet/m_mentalillness.html

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