Silent Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome: A Case Report of Atypical Antipsychotic Induced Elevation of Creatinine Kinase and Altered Mental Status by Amber N. Edinoff, Hamza Mohammad-Amin, Amira S. Odisho

“…34-year-old African American male with a diagnosis of schizophrenia was placed on aripiprazole and risperidone for psychosis and mood stabilization. Two days after medication initiation, the patient's mentation was altered and he appeared confused with an elevated creatine kinase (CK) at 7101. …”
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Combination Olanzapine and Samidorphan for the Management of Schizophrenia and Bipolar 1 Disorder in Adults: A Narrative Review by Hannah W. Haddad, Elena Boardman, Brooke Williams, Rama Mouhaffel, Adam M. Kaye, Alan D. Kaye

“…Clinical trial patients reported improvements in symptoms of psychosis, reduced weight gain, and overall satisfaction with their treatment. …”
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Synthetic Cannabis Overdose and Withdrawal in a Young Adult: A Case Report, Commentary on Regulation, and Review of the Literature by John Samaan, Gerardo F. Ferrer, Boye Akinyemi, Patricia Junquera, Juan Oms, Rhaisa Dumenigo

“…One case presented is of a young adult patient, with histories of recurrent synthetic cannabis and recreational cannabis use, who had developed drastic physiological and psychiatric symptoms, including the development of acute-onset psychosis. Conclusion/Discussion. This case, as many others nationwide, exemplifies the impact of synthetic cannabinoid use and abuse in adolescents. …”
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“I’m Seeing Dead People”: A Case Report on Salicylate Poisoning in a Patient with Hallucinations by Jessica Meyers, Sean McCormick, Phillip D. Levy, Michael J. Twiner

“…Conclusion: This case serves as a reminder for physicians to have a high index of suspicion for chronic toxicities including salicylates in patients who present as acute psychosis or altered mental status of unknown etiology.…”
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A Case of Schizophrenia in a Young Male Adult with no History of Substance Abuse: Impact of Clinical Pharmacists’ Interventions on Patient Outcome by Mercy N. A. Opare-Addo, Josephine Mensah, Grace Owusu Aboagye

“…The case proves that it is critical for clinical pharmacists to be involved in the multidisciplinary team during management of patients with psychosis.…”
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Use of ECT in Major Vascular Neurocognitive Disorder with Treatment-Resistant Behavioral Disturbance following an Acute Stroke in a Young Patient by Kyle E. Rodenbach, Daniel Varon, Timothey Denko, Ryan Peterson, Carmen Andreescu

“…Neuropsychiatric sequelae of stroke include poststroke depression, anxiety, mania, psychosis, apathy, pathological laughter and crying, catastrophic reaction, and mild and major vascular neurocognitive disorders. …”
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Depression after Delivery: Risk Factors, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Considerations by Debra A. Scrandis, Tehmina M. Sheikh, Robina Niazi, Leonardo H. Tonelli, Teodor T. Postolache

“…This integrated review examined several postpartum psychiatric disorders, postpartum blues, generalized anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and postpartum psychosis for current findings on prevalence, etiologies, risk factors, and postpartum depression treatments.…”
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Patients with neurological or psychiatric complications of COVID-19 have worse long-term functional outcomes: COVID-CNS—A multicentre case–control study by Rajish S. K. Shil, Adam Seed, Nkongho Egbe Franklyn, Brendan F. Sargent, Greta K. Wood, Yun Huang, Katherine C. Dodd, James B. Lilleker, Thomas A. Pollak, Sylviane Defres, Thomas M. Jenkins, Nicholas W. S. Davies, David A. Cousins, Michael S. Zandi, Thomas A. Jackson, Laura A. Benjamin, Ava Easton, Tom Solomon, John R. Bradley, Patrick F. Chinnery, Craig J. Smith, Timothy R. Nicholson, Alan Carson, Rhys H. Thomas, Mark Alexander Ellul, Nicholas W. Wood, Gerome Breen, Benedict Daniel Michael, the COVID-CNS Study Group

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Can social adversity and mental, physical and oral multimorbidity form a syndemic? A concept and protocol paper by Easter Joury, Easter Joury, Eliana Nakhleh, Ed Beveridge, Derek Tracy, Derek Tracy, Derek Tracy, Derek Tracy, Ellie Heidari, Ellie Heidari, David Shiers, David Shiers, David Shiers, Silke Vereeken, Emily Peckham, Simon Gilbody, Simon Gilbody, Jayati Das-Munshi, Farida Fortune, Farida Fortune, Vishal R. Aggarwal, Masuma Mishu, Masuma Mishu, Joseph Firth, Joseph Firth, Kamaldeep Bhui, Kamaldeep Bhui, Kamaldeep Bhui, Kamaldeep Bhui

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Analysis of clinical characteristics and risk factors for patients with heat stroke in western China in 2022: a multicenter retrospective study by Xin Zheng, Yuchun Gao, Qinli Xie, Qiulan Chen, Chuan Guo, Qionglan Dong, Jin Tang, Jun Luo, Ying Ge, Jian He, Xiaolin Hou, Guanghong Zhou, Yuan Chen, Haiquan Cao, Jiujia Xiao, An Lan, Qiu Chen, Yonghong Zeng, Jing Huang, Huaicong Long

“…The Kaplan–Meier analysis revealed that the CHS group had a significantly higher mortality rate than the EHS group.ConclusionA high incidence of hypertension, diabetes, psychosis, men, and older persons may be associated with HS. …”
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Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Encephalitis as Paraneoplastic Manifestation of Germ-Cells Tumours: A Cases Report and Literature Review by Claudia Geraldine Rita, Israel Nieto Gañan, Adriano Jimenez Escrig, Ángela Carrasco Sayalero

“…There is a wide spectrum of clinical features starting by a viral-like prodrome, followed by symptoms such as psychosis, aggressive behaviour, memory loss, seizures, movement disorders, and autonomic instability. …”
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Levofloxacin-induced visual hallucinations: A case report and review of the literature by Valentina Raffaelli, Giulia Cantoni, Gabriella Nucera, Pietro Marino

“…However, the possibility of levofloxacin-induced acute psychosis was considered and, on day 3, levofloxacin was discontinued with a complete resolution of the patient’s visual hallucinations by her sixth day of hospitalization. …”
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Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia by Iracema Leroi, Hiranmayi Pantula, Kathryn McDonald, Vijay Harbishettar

“…Apathy was reported in almost 50% of those with PD-MCI and PDD, and it was an important neuropsychiatric symptom differentiating PD-MCI from PD-NC. Psychosis (hallucinations and delusions) increased from 12.9% in PD-NC group; 16.7% in PD-MCI group; and 48% in PDD group. …”
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Mechanisms Underlying Aggressive Behavior Induced by Antiepileptic Drugs: Focus on Topiramate, Levetiracetam, and Perampanel by Cerine C. Hansen, Hanna Ljung, Eylert Brodtkorb, Arne Reimers

“…Other mechanisms involve hormones, epigenetics, and “alternative psychosis” and related phenomena. Increased individual susceptibility due to an underlying neurological and/or a mental health disorder may further explain why people with epilepsy are at an increased risk of AB when using AEDs. …”
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Folie a Deux: Shared Psychotic Disorder in a Medical Unit by Saumya Bhutani, Damir Huremovic

“…A shared psychotic disorder is important to consider on the differential when cases of psychosis with delusional systems are seen on medical floors.…”
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Validation of a composite outcome measure for inpatient psychiatry using scales from the interRAI-MH by Howard E. Barbaree, Christopher Perlman, Elke Ham, Gregory P. Brown, John P. Hirdes

“…Currently, there are few generally accepted or widely used outcomes to assess the effectiveness of inpatient treatment.MethodFollowing a Donabedian Model of Health Care Quality, we utilized eight scales from the RAI Mental Health assessment to derive a clinician-scored outcome measure consisting of 4 domains (Psychosis, Depression, Impairment, and Aggression). …”
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Social cognition in bipolar I and II disorders: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis by Bingren Zhang, Xuyu Chen, Nianhua Qiu

“…There was no significant difference in ToM between BD I and BD II and in emotion processing between non-psychotic patients with BD I and BD II, and history of psychosis negatively predicted performance on emotion processing. …”
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Early intervention in eating disorders: introducing the chronopathogram by Antonio Preti, Francesco Bevione, Maria Carla Lacidogna, Andrea Raballo, Michele Poletti, Giovanni Abbate-Daga

“…Early intervention in EDs, inspired by the model developed for psychosis, emphasizes the importance of timely identification and treatment initiation to improve prognosis. …”
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Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis following Long-Term Antipsychotic Use by David T. Liebers, Adaora Ofomata, Ryan Badolato, Emily Mills, Pantea Farahmand

“…While there are reports of antipsychotic-induced psychosis occurring within months, and in a limited set of cases, years, after medication initiation, the twelve-year time interval in the present case is by far the longest duration of an antipsychotic precipitating this adverse event recorded in the literature. …”
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