Volume 37 · Number 8
AUGUST 2007
The Magic of Large Numbers versus Clinical Experience
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This month’s issue of Psychiatric Annals presents several cases presented at the “What’s Your Treatment?” segment at the Fifth Annual Psychiatric Annals Symposium. In each case, a patient with a particular problem who did not respond to initial treatment, but did respond to other treatments tried in sequence, is presented. What value does going over such single cases have when there are large, random-assignment, placebo-controlled studies available as a gold standard to show us the relative efficacy of various treatments?
A Woman with Bipolar Disorder who had Thyroid Cancer
Jan Fawcett, MD
A 35-year-old Female Patient with Bipolar Disorder
Robert M. Post, MD
Dealing with Task Avoidance in a 23-year-old Woman with Failure to Thrive
Stephen P. McDermott, MD
Charles Bonnet Syndrome: Long-term Outcome of Treatment
Nahla Mahgoub, MD;
Michael Serby, MD
The Silent Victims: Effects of War and Terrorism on Child Development
Anas Alkhatib, MD;
Judy Regan, MD, MBA, JD;
Donna Barrett, MSN, APRN(BC)
