Drugs in Context Psychiatry welcomes a broad range of article types including original research, study protocols and review articles.
In line with the principle of providing context for healthcare professionals (HCPs) to properly inform and improve disease management in real world medicine, we especially encourage the submission of articles that provide context for trials of drug interventions in order to motivate improvements in disease management by HCPs practising medicine in the front line.
Original Research
This analysis confirms that the tolerability and safety profile of edivoxetine as adjunctive treatment to SSRI antidepressants was consistent with its norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor mechanism of action, and was comparable with edivoxetine monotherapy treatment in patients with major depressive disorder.
Original Research
The results from this large cohort study provided naturalistic real-world evidence of the utility of LAIs in patients with schizophrenia and suggest that these agents may help to reduce the risk of relapse across all age groups, especially among younger patients.
Case Report
Tardive dyskinesia (TD) can be a disfiguring side-effect of antipsychotic medications. In this article the authors review the risk of TD, the potential etiologic mechanisms and present some interesting cases of patients taking atypical antipsychotics who developed TD.
Case Report
In this article, the authors explore basic sleep physiology, the mechanism of action for each class of hypnotic drugs and their clinical application. The potential pharmacologic sleep-inducing mechanisms of future hypnotics are also described and discussed.
Original Research
This prospective, observational, non-interventional study conducted in six non-Western countries concludes that after 12 months of treatment, clinical and functional outcomes were improved in children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who initiated and remained on their prescribed pharmacological monotherapy.