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Cases That Test Your Skills

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Psychotic and sexually deviant
Renee Sorrentino, MD; Leah Bauer, MD; Daniel Reilly, MD
Release date: 5/1/2013

Sleepless and paranoid
Nick Eilbeck, MD; Marijo Tamburrino, MD
Release date: 4/1/2013

A taste for the unusual
Christopher Rodgman, MD; Daniel K. Winstead, MD
Release date: 3/1/2013

Bipolar disorder or something else?
Kevin Marsee, MD; Anne F. Gross, MD
Release date: 2/1/2013

Paranoid, agitated, and manipulative
Hamid R. Tavakoli, MD; Edwin Landaker, MD; Lisa Inouye, MD; Peter Sylvester, BS
Release date: 1/1/2013

Paranoia and slowed cognition
Ijeoma Ijeaku, MD, MPH; Melissa Pereau, MD
Release date: 12/1/2012

Something smells different
Kristin L. Dawson, MD; Paula Gibbs, MD
Release date: 11/1/2012

Stalked by a 'patient'
Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD; Stuart Kleinman, MD
Release date: 10/1/2012

Epilepsy or something else?
Dimitry Francois, MD; Smita Agarkar, MD; Nabil Kotbi, MD
Release date: 9/1/2012

The avoidant psychotherapy patient
Justin Faden, DO; Robert McFadden, MD
Release date: 8/1/2012

A perplexing case of altered mental status
Ravi Shankar, MD; Derek Mongold, MD
Release date: 7/1/2012

Overwhelmed by side effects
Release date: 6/1/2012

Epileptic and depressed
Magdalena Romanowicz, MD; John Michael Bostwick, MD
Release date: 5/1/2012

Psychotic and in pain
Joseph L. Kugler, MD; Michelle Magid, MD
Release date: 4/1/2012

Obsessive and inattentive
Michael S. Hanau, MD, FAPA; Eric Jenike, BA
Release date: 3/1/2012

A paranoid, violent teenager
Gaurav A. Kulkarni, MD; Parikshit A. Deshmukh, MD; Michael T. Sorter, MD; Drew H. Barzman, MD
Release date: 2/1/2012

The delirious substance abuser
Raphael J. Leo, MD, MA; Ritu Goel, MBBS
Release date: 1/1/2012

Disoriented and forgetful
Jessica Kinkela, PhD; Shuja Haque, MD, MRCPsych; Bradley N. Axelrod, PhD; Cristina Seicarescu, MD; Stephanie Judd, MD
Release date: 12/1/2011

A questionable diagnosis
Martha Crowner, MD
Release date: 11/1/2011

A curious case of depression
Pavle Joksovic, MD; Pieter Joost van Wattum, MD, MA; Catherine Chiles, MD
Release date: 10/1/2011

‘Scared’ and short of breath
Haiwang Tang, MD, PhD; Xiaohong Hu, MD, MS
Release date: 9/1/2011

Unexpected improvement
Ricardo Millán-González, MD; Carlos Loizaga-Arnaiz, MD; Fabricio Zúñiga-Montes, MD
Release date: 8/1/2011

A dangerous GI complication
Amit Chopra, MD; Abhishek Rai, MBBS; Kemuel Philbrick, MD; Piyush Das, MD
Release date: 7/1/2011

Pregnant and moving involuntarily
Ann C. Schwartz, MD; Megan Lawley, BA
Release date: 6/1/2011

Depression or delirium?
Juan Carlos Cleves-Bayon, MD; Kirsten M. Wilkins, MD; Rajesh R. Tampi, MBBS
Release date: 5/1/2011

Diabetic and depressed
Magdalena Romanowicz, MD; Christopher L. Sola, DO; John H. Davidson, MD
Release date: 4/1/2011

The mysterious foreign accent
Panchajanya Paul, MD; Barry Beckman, PsyD; David Bellian, MD; Thomas Osinowo, MD
Release date: 3/1/2011

The surgeon who operated on himself
Zaid Yusufi Rafin, MD; Daniel Joel Pimstone, MD; Mark Hyman Rapaport, MD
Release date: 2/1/2011

A case of returning psychosis
Mallika Lavakumar, MD; Steven J. Garlow, MD, PhD; Ann C. Schwartz, MD
Release date: 1/1/2011

The psychotic pot smoker
Dharmendra Kumar, MD; Mary Jo Fitz-Gerald, MD; Anita Kablinger, MD; Thomas Arnold, MD, FAAEM, FACMT
Release date: 9/1/2010

Uncooperative and manic
Claudia L. Reardon, MD; Burr S. Eichelman, MD, PhD
Release date: 8/1/2010

The manipulative self-harmer
Ali Hashmi, MD; Dennis R. Vowell Jr, PsyD
Release date: 6/1/2010

Nighttime anxieties
Jeremy A. Jensen, MD; Julie P. Gentile, MD; Robby Wyatt, MD
Release date: 5/1/2010

The woman who wasn’t there
Ahmed Janjua, MD; Daniel Rapport, MD; Gina Ferrara, MD
Release date: 4/1/2010

Did brain trauma lead to crime?
Helen M. Farrell, MD; Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Release date: 3/1/2010

Chasing the dragon
Murali Rao, MD, DFAPA, FAPM; Zoe Wilson, MD
Release date: 2/1/2010

Terrifying visions
Abdulmalek Sadehh, MD; Veena Bhanot, MD; Cristian Sirbu, PhD
Release date: 1/1/2010

The bedtime solution
Mitchell Levy, MD; Kimberly McLaren, MD
Release date: 12/1/2009

A mysterious case of mania
Magdalena Romanowicz, MD; Timothy W. Lineberry, MD
Release date: 10/1/2009

The patient who didn’t know
Neha Jain, MD; Veena Bhanot, MD
Release date: 9/1/2009

A case of the body snatchers
Rajni Dulai, MD; Sonya Lee Kelly, MD
Release date: 8/1/2009

The nurse who worked the system
Gabrielle J. Melin, MD, MS; and Gregory P. Couser, MD
Release date: 7/1/2009

Afraid to leave home
Carolina A. Klein, MD;; Michael F. Myers, MD
Release date: 6/1/2009

A chilling complication
Amy Wehrle, DO; Glen Wright, MD; Veena Bhanot, MD; Cristian Sirbu, PhD
Release date: 5/1/2009

A mysterious loss of memory
Murali Rao, MD, DFAPA, FAPM
Release date: 4/1/2009

The treatment-resistant catatonia patient
Ahmed Aboraya, MD, DrPH; Paramjit Chumber, MD; Bahar Altaha, MD
Release date: 3/1/2009

The angry patient with Asperger’s
Raj K. Kalapatapu, MD
Release date: 2/1/2009

A pacemaker patient’s electrical dilemma
Magdalena Romanowicz, MD; Sriram Ramaswamy, MD
Release date: 1/1/2009

A mysterious physical and mental decline
Matthew Macaluso, DO; Christine Skotzko, MD; Maria Rueda-Lara, MD
Release date: 12/1/2008

The inexplicably suicidal patient
Michael B. Murphy, MSIV; Lloyd C. Alcera, MD; Jasmine K. Gill, MD; Jeffrey Dunn, MD
Release date: 11/1/2008

The sailor who won’t follow orders
Joseph W. Henry, MD; Dominique Neptune, MD; Julie C. Chapman, PsyD; Barbara L. Schwartz, PhD;
Richard B. Rosse, MD; Stephen I. Deutsch, MD, PhD

Release date: 10/1/2008

The puzzling self-poisoner
James Cho, MD
Release date: 9/1/2008

The wilting widow’s masquerading illness
Philip Saragoza, MD; Daniel F. Maixner, MD
Release date: 8/1/2008

‘I’ve been abducted by aliens’
Patricia Kinne, MD; Venna Bhanot, MD
Release date: 7/1/2008

The patient who ‘spilled salt’
Magdalena Romanowicz, MD;; Sriram Ramaswamy, MD;; Daniel R. Wilson, MD, PhD
Release date: 6/1/2008

A Reverend’s tale: Too tragic to be true?
Gabrielle Melin, MD, MS; Kristin Somers, MD; Gita Thanarajasingam, MS-IV; Greg Couser, MD, MPH; Michael Reese, MD
Release date: 5/1/2008

When the pain decreased, her troubles began
Tanvir Singh, MD; Alina Rais, MD
Release date: 4/1/2008

The patient nobody liked
Sebastian Kreitschitz, MD; Gagandeep Singh, MD
Release date: 3/1/2008

One patient’s ‘shot’ at redemption
Willow Naimark, MD; Jeanne Johnson, DDS; Annette Matthews, MD
Release date: 2/1/2008

A young man’s ‘trips’ to heaven and hell
Ricardo Cáceda, MD, PhD; Barbara D’Orio, MD, MPA
Release date: 1/1/2008

Is she being abused or ‘acting out’?
Michael Musgrove, MD; Brent Turnipseed, MD; Michelle Magid, MD
Release date: 12/1/2007

After the ‘pink clouds,’ he sees red
Nicholas G. Pejic, MD; Stephen Klinger, MD, MPH;
Erich J. Conrad, MD; Lee T. Nesbitt, Jr., MD

Release date: 11/1/2007

Unhappy feet: One woman’s severe akathisia
Salah Qureshi, MD; Lober Cervantes, MD
Release date: 10/1/2007

A young man’s affair of the heart
Mitchell Levy, MD; Suzanne B. Murray, MD
Release date: 9/1/2007

A life of drugs and ‘downtime’
Emjay M. Tan, MD; Rodney I. Eiger, MD; Jeffrey D. Roth, MD
Release date: 8/1/2007

Conquering his fears, one step at a time
Shani Stein, MD; Steven Friedman, PhD; Abdul Elmouchtari, MD
Release date: 7/1/2007

Getting to the heart of his ‘shocking’ trauma
Kathleen A. Hecksel, MD; J. Michael Bostwick, MD
Release date: 6/1/2007

Depression, medication, and ‘bad blood’
Pia Natalya Reyes, MD; Deborah Cross, MD
Release date: 5/1/2007

After 3 months, she’s still ‘mad’
Leonard Lachover, MD
Release date: 4/1/2007

‘Killer trolls’: One older man’s battle
Neil A. Smith, DO; Robert Hierholzer, MD
Release date: 3/1/2007

Did antismoking therapy make him sick?
Steven G. Sugden, MD; James A. Bourgeois, OD, MD
Release date: 2/1/2007

Psychosis: Is it a medical problem?
Aileen Higgins, MD; Roueen Rafeyan, MD
Release date: 1/1/2007

Gender dysphoria: ‘I’m a man, but…’
Kari Ann Martin, MD
Release date: 12/1/2006

The consequences of sipping ‘tea’
Melissa Buboltz, MD; Sahana Misra, MD; Linda Ganzini, MD, MPH
Release date: 11/1/2006

Anxiously looking for love
Andreea L. Seritan, MD; Karen T. Hopp, MD; Susan Bacalman, LCSW; Sally Ozonoff, PhD
Release date: 10/1/2006

When clozapine is not an option
Brendan T. Carroll, MD; Kameshwari Jayanti, MD; Christopher Thomas, PharmD; Karen C. Tugrul, RN
Release date: 9/1/2006

Is it anxiety, depression, or bipolar disorder?
Tanvir Singh, MD; Kristi Williams, MD
Release date: 8/1/2006

Depressed, delusional, and ‘dead’
Eben L. McClenahan, MD, MS; James R. Westphal, MD
Release date: 7/1/2006

When your brother becomes a ‘stranger’
Elizabeth Cerceo, MD; Jeffrey Dunn, MD; Thomas Newmark, MD
Release date: 6/1/2006

It’s not easy being emperor
Frances R. Frankenburg, MD
Release date: 5/1/2006

The boy who longed for a ‘dry spell’
Tanvir Singh, MD; Kristi Williams, MD
Release date: 4/1/2006

Conversion disorder? One patient’s ‘moving’ story
Melissa J. Armstrong, MD; A. Katherine Costello, MD; Mary Hanessian, MD; Murali Rao, MD; José Biller, MD
Release date: 3/1/2006

The ‘date’ that changed her life
Annette M. Matthews, MD; Catherine Mossefin, MD
Release date: 2/1/2006

For 8 years, she’s been ‘spellbound’
Ahsan Y. Khan, MD; Kaleem Syed, MD; Naila Aziz, MD
Release date: 1/1/2006

A ‘bad’ boy’s behavior problems
A. Kenneth Fuller, MD
Release date: 12/1/2005

The skinny on one patient’s psychosis
Ahsan Y. Khan, MD; Jeremy Tan, MD; Sheila K. Williamson, MD
Release date: 11/1/2005

Is the pain in his shoulder or his head?
Ahmed Janjua, MD; Daniel Rapport, MD; Gina Ferrara, MD
Release date: 10/1/2005

The patient who got sick at sea
Alan L. Schneider, MD
Release date: 9/1/2005

When depression treatment goes nowhere
Ahsan Y. Khan, MD; Katherine Grimsley, MD
Release date: 8/1/2005

Nothing more than feelings?
David Krassner, MD; Robert Hierholzer, MD; Matthew Battista, PhD
Release date: 7/1/2005

A suicidal injection obsession
Annette M. Matthews, MD; Peter Hauser, MD
Release date: 6/1/2005

Why me? One youth’s quest for sanity
Cynthia Brownsmith, PhD; Leslie Lundt, MD
Release date: 5/1/2005

When treatment spells trouble
Joshua Kantrowitz, MD; Erica Wojciuk-Jessen, MD; Rajesh R. Tampi, MD, MS
Release date: 4/1/2005

Getting to the heart of panic disorder
Ahsan Y. Khan, MD; Katherine Grimsley, MD
Release date: 3/1/2005

From active to apathetic
Rehan Aziz, MD; Rajesh R. Tampi, MD, MS
Release date: 2/1/2005

A creepy-crawly disorder
Annette M. Matthews, MD; Peter Hauser, MD
Release date: 1/1/2005

Something in the air
Ahsan Y. Khan, MD; Sheldon H. Preskorn, MD; Inna D’Empaire, MD
Release date: 12/1/2004

Somatoform disorders: food for thought
Anne E. Bernstein, MD
Release date: 11/1/2004

Sobering facts about a missed diagnosis
Sunanda Muralee, MD; Rajesh R. Tampi, MD, MS
Release date: 10/1/2004

Spotting a silent killer
Miyun Kang, MD; Barbra Lesh, MD, MS; Rajesh Tampi, MD, MS; Olufunke Fajobi, MD; Stephen Ruedrich, MD; Daniel Schubert, MD, PhD
Release date: 9/1/2004

A troubled patient’s secret life
Kathryn J. Fraser, MD
Release date: 8/1/2004

The ‘show-off’ who couldn’t walk
John P. Zincone, MD; Adrian Sondheimer, MD
Release date: 7/1/2004

After 62 years, her husband is a ‘stranger’
Harold W. Goforth, MD; Amity Ruth, PhD; Chirag R. Ravel, MD; Murali S. Rao, MD
Release date: 6/1/2004

Trichotillomania: A heads-up on severe cases
Leslie P. Lundt, MD
Release date: 5/1/2004

The painful truth about depression
David A. Fishbain, MD
Release date: 4/1/2004

Chemical ‘warfare’ in Philadelphia
Jeffrey Dunn, MD; Josh Kellerman Eric C. Alcera, MD
Release date: 3/1/2004

Night terrors: a family affair
Lisa M. Cantor, MD; Roy H. Jacobson, MD; Robert M. Cantor, MD
Release date: 2/1/2004

When a patient threatens terrorism
John Kennedy, MD, MHA; Andrew Klafter, MD
Release date: 1/1/2004

Regression, depression, and the facts of life
David Krassner, MD; Karen Kraus, MD
Release date: 12/1/2003

Beware the men with toupees
Barbra Greenberg, MD; Rajesh Tampi, MD
Release date: 11/1/2003

When a mother’s love hurts
Alfred A. Messer, MD
Release date: 10/1/2003

Psychosis or ‘cultural paranoia?’
Jeffrey M. Benzick, MD
Release date: 9/1/2003

Clozapine therapy: Timing is everything
Harold W. Goforth, MD; Chirag R. Ravel, MD; Gautam Sharma, MD; Murali S. Rao, MD
Release date: 8/1/2003

Getting patients to talk about priapism
Marcia Freed, MD; Philip R. Muskin, MD
Release date: 7/1/2003

Treating schizophrenia in the ‘real world’
Jose M. Canive, MD
Release date: 6/1/2003

Birds, butterflies and bullfrogs: When patients ‘see things’
Lee I. Kubersky, BS; Nicole Foubister, MD; Thomas Newmark, MD
Release date: 5/1/2003

The search for the hidden depressant
Benjamin Yu, MD; Gerald A. Maguire, MD
Release date: 4/1/2003

Treating persistent psychosis with cognitive-behavioral therapy
Peter Weiden, MD; Page Burkholder, MD
Release date: 3/1/2003

Steroid abuse: a ‘hidden’ health hazard
William P. Carter, MD; Harrison G. Pope Jr, MD
Release date: 2/1/2003

Treating late-life decline: When more is less
Sumer Verma, MD
Release date: 1/1/2003

When culture complicates treatment
David Krassner, MD
Release date: 12/1/2002

A showdown with severe social phobia
Benjamin P. Yu, MD; Christopher Gordon, MD; Gerald A. Maguire, MD
Release date: 11/1/2002

The case of the quadriplegic cyberterrorist
Michael A. Sperber, MD
Release date: 10/1/2002

The patient who couldn’t stop vomiting
William J. Wiseman, MD; Stephen Dunlop, MD
Release date: 9/1/2002

Can a wakefulness-promoting agent augment schizophrenia treatment?
Benjamin P. Yu, MD; Gerald A. Maguire, MD
Release date: 7/1/2002

Eating baby powder controls her urge to purge
Sadiq H. Al-Samarrai, MD; Thomas Mueller, MS; Thomas Newmark, MD; Jeffrey Dunn, MD
Release date: 6/1/2002

At age 44 and physically fit, he feared imminent death
William P. Carter, MD
Release date: 5/1/2002

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