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Stanga C, Preskorn SH. Use of the laboratory in psychiatry. In DunnerDL, ed. Current Psychiatric Therapy II. Philadelphia Saunders, 1997 2 59-74. 

Pauling recently introduced the concept of orthomolecular psychiatry in an attempt to redefine the basis of mental disease and the treatment thereof. He suggests that aberrant mental function and behavior may be due to inadequate brain levels of essential nutrients (e.g., vitamins, amino acids, fatty acids, etc.). Orthomolecular psychiatric therapy, therefore, would provide optimum concentrations of these vital substances in order to correct alleged cerebral deficiencies. Diagnostic methods for determining optimum levels of a pertinent nutrient for individual patients are not yet available. One critic has already taken issue with these views. Other investigators have independently considered the possibility that abnormal plasma levels of free fatty acids may influence the erratic dietary intake of schizophrenic children. 

Dubovsky, S. L., Generalized anxiety disorder New concepts and psychophar-macologic therapies. 142nd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (1989, San Francisco, California). Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 51(Suppl) 3-10, 1990. 

A series of studies demonstrates a synergistic effect between drug therapies and psychodynamic talk therapies. The effectiveness of each form of therapy used independently is less than their combined use in the case of major depression. See A. Solomon, The Noonday Demon An Atlas of Depression (New York Scribner s, 2001) E. Good, Chronic Depression Study Backs the Pairing of Therapy and Drugs, New York Times (May 18, 2000) L. Altshuler et al., Treatment of Depression in Women A Summary of the Expert Consensus Guidelines, of Psychiatric Practice 7 (May 2001) 185-208. Kleinman, Rethinking Psychiatry p. ii. 

Electroconvulsive therapy [ECT] is one of the oldest somatic treatments in psychiatry. The emergence of the field of psychopharmacology in the 1960s eclipsed advancement in ECT practice and research. To some extent, the pendulum has swung back in the past 15 years, as there has been intensive rediscovery of the basic science of ECT and an increase in its clinical use. Contemporary research has reexamined clinical issues, such as indications for treatment, response prediction, and relapse prevention, given the changing nature of psychiatric treatment and referral patterns. At the same time, more sophisticated approaches to treatment... 

Gillin JC Sleep studies in affective illness diagnostic, therapeutic and pathophysiological implications. Psychiatr Ann 13 367-384, 1983a Gilhn JC The sleep therapies of depression. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 7 351-364, 1983b... 

Nobler MS, Sackeim HA Augmentation strategies in electroconvulsive therapy a synthesis. Convulsive Therapy 9 331-351, 1993 Nobler MS, Sackeim HA Electroconvulsive therapy clinical and biological aspects, in Prediction of Treatment Response in Mood Disorders. Edited by Goodnick P. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, 1996, pp 177-198 Nobler MS, Sackeim HA, Solomou M, et al EEG manifestations during ECT effects of electrode placement and stimulus intensity. Biol Psychiatry 34 321-330, 1993 Nobler MS, Sackeim HA, Prohovnik 1, et al Regional cerebral blood flow in mood disorders. III treatment and clinical response. Arch Gen Psychiatry 51 884-897, 1994... 

Interest in the neurobiological substrates of psychiatric disorders has paralleled the increase in effective somatic therapies, which, in turn, have extended the laboratory s role in evaluating patients. Although the laboratory can never replace clinical acumen in psychiatry, or in any other medical specialty, it can play a significant role in ... 

American Psychiatric Association. (1975). The current status of lithium therapy Report of the APA Task Force. American Journal of Psychiatry, 132, 997-1001. 

Marangell, F., Silver, J., Goff, D., Yudofsky, S. (2003). Pharmacology and electroconvulsive therapy. In R. Hales S. Yudofsky (Eds.), The American Psychiatric Publishing textbook of clinical psychiatry (4th ed., pp. 1047-1149). Washington, DC American Psychiatric Press. 

Hosoda S, Takimura H, Shibayama M, Kanamura H, Ikeda K, Kumada H. Psychiatric symptoms related to interferon therapy for chronic hepatitis C clinical features and prognosis. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2000 54(5) 565-72. 

Kraus MR, Schafer A, Faller H, Csef H, Scheurlen M. Psychiatric symptoms in patients with chronic hepatitis C receiving interferon alfa-2b therapy. J Clin Psychiatry 2003 64 708-14. 

Lee S, Wing YK, Wong KC Knowledge and compliance towards lithium therapy among Chinese psychiatric patients in Hong Kong. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 26 444-449,1992... 

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