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Jasmine Kelley, MD I entered the exam room to find Mrs. Beach peering over her glasses as she pulled prescription bottles from her purse. She squinted to examine the labels, then identified them, declaring, “for my sugar diabetes”, “for my blood pressure”, “for my cholesterol” and so on as she set them on the counter
Alice W. Lee, MD, ABIHM, ABoIM Currently, the field of psychiatry is beginning to understand the severity and persistence of psychiatric medication withdrawal symptoms [1,2,3]. Functional approaches have been proposed for some psychiatric medication withdrawal processes [4,5], but there is no consensus for a reliable method for guiding safe psychiatric medication withdrawal or resolving underlying
Abstract Could it be that the initial clue that alcoholism is a brain disease was discovered as early as the 8th Century? At that time, German Psychiatrist, Carl Wernike and the 9th Century Russian Psychiatrist, Sergei Korsakoff identified memory loss and extreme neuropathy as the symptoms that now bear the name Wernike-Korsakoff Syndrome (WKS). This