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The Demoralization Construct in Clinical Practice and Research
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March 25, 2026

It is important to acknowledge demoralization as a separate diagnosis, rather than merely a specifier, because demoralization may occur by itself, in the absence of any other disorder or…
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Thirty Years of the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research
Systematic Review

March 25, 2026

Findings indicate that the DCPR are an essential integration to psychiatric taxonomy, particularly in the setting of medical disease, with prognostic and therapeutic implications.
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Biography Inscribed in Biology: Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research and the Embodiment of Lived Experience
Commentary

March 25, 2026

The DCPR framework, with its emphasis on allostatic overload, provides evidence that biography becomes biology and that lived experience is inscribed into our physiological systems.
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Mind-Body Integration and East-West Fusion for Modern Medicine: Insights from the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research
Commentary

March 25, 2026

Clinimetrics not only lays the methodological foundation for the promotion of the DCPR but also shows potential in interdisciplinary applications.
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What Clinicians Should Know About Alzheimer’s Treatment with Marc Agronin, MD
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March 24, 2026

Dr. Marc Agronin covers early Alzheimer’s screening, biomarker diagnostics, anti-amyloid immunotherapy, and emerging treatments for cognitive decline
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Case Report

March 24, 2026

This case highlights a rare but clinically significant dilemma: balancing essential corticosteroid replacement against neuropsychiatric toxicity.
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Health Belief Model and Treatment Adherence in Dissociative Disorders
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March 24, 2026

This study examined how health belief model constructs influence treatment adherence among patients with dissociative disorders and how demographic variables influence that relationship.
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Neuropsychiatric Symptom Clusters and Brain Structure in Alzheimer’s Disease
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March 16, 2026

Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease separate into hyperactivity, psychosis, neurovegetative, and affective clusters, supporting a cluster-based paradigm linking behavioral symptoms with brain structure and functional decline.
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Temporal Dynamics of Antidepressant Response Following Brexanolone Treatment in Postpartum Depression
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March 11, 2026

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Vitamin B12 Deficiency Risk With Metformin for Weight Management in Second-Generation Antipsychotic Recipients: Reply to Mulsant et al
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March 18, 2026

Daggolu and Chen reply to a letter commenting on their study of metformin use in patients receiving second-generation antipsychotics.
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Concurrent Metformin and Second-Generation Antipsychotics: The Need to Add Vitamin B12
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March 18, 2026

The authors recommend vigilance for potential B12 deficiency when coprescribing metformin and antipsychotics.
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Mania and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Case Report

March 19, 2026

This report details a case in which a patient presented with mania in the setting of cerebral amyloid angiopathy and hypertension that did not abate until treatment with antihypertensives.
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Atypical Presentation of Autoimmune Encephalitis
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March 19, 2026

A 23-year-old woman presented with probable antibody-negative autoimmune encephalitis that initially mimicked a primary psychiatric disorder.
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