Therapist ratings of patients' achievement of objectives in psychotherapy were used to examine the impact of drugs on psychotherapy, to identify attributes of patients who achieve therapy objectives, and to assess the importance of the implementation of a crisis-oriented model of therapy. Patients were part of a project investigating the long-acting phenothiazine fluphenazine enanthate and cris...

Whether invertebrates exhibit positive emotion-like states and what mechanisms underlie such states remain poorly understood. We demonstrate that bumblebees exhibit dopamine-dependent positive emotion-like states across behavioral contexts. After training with one rewarding and one unrewarding cue, bees that received pretest sucrose responded in a positive manner toward ambiguous cues. In a sec...

First (DI) and second (D2) order derivative spectrophotometric method with an application of base line to peak technique was used for determination of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) at two wavelengths: fluphenazine (D1 at lambda = 251 nm and lambda = 265 nm, D2 at lambda = 246 nm and lambda = 269 nm), pernazine (D1 at lambda = 246 nm and lambda = 258 nm, D2 at lambda = 254 nm and lambd...

Objectives To examine the relation between antipsychotic drugs and myocarditis and cardiomyopathy. Design Data mining using bayesian statistics implemented in a neural network architecture. Setting International database on adverse drug reactions run by the World Health Organization programme for international drug monitoring. Main outcome measures Reports mentioning antipsychotic drugs, cardio...

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a major psychiatric disorder that is easily misdiagnosed. Patient adherence to a treatment regimen is of utmost importance for successful outcomes in BD. Several trials of antipsychotics suggested that depot antipsychotics, including long-acting first- and second-generation agents, are effective in preventing non-adherence, partial adherence, and in reducing relapse in ...

The classical form of α1-antitrypsin deficiency (ATD) is associated with hepatic fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. It is caused by the proteotoxic effect of a mutant secretory protein that aberrantly accumulates in the endoplasmic reticulum of liver cells. Recently we developed a model of this deficiency in C. elegans and adapted it for high-content drug screening using an automated, image...

Abstract Background Several different formulations of valproic acid derivatives are available in the United States. Although these have absorption characteristics, they believed to be interchangeable, with exception extended-release product. Case Report A 31-year-old African American man schizoaffective disorder was started on fluphenazine concentrate and valproate oral solution admission an in...