This educational activity is specifically designed for psychiatrists, psychologists and other physicians, clinicians, physicians-in-training, and healthcare professionals (psychiatry nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants) involved and/or interested in the therapeutic management of patients with psychotic and mood disorders.
Objectives After successful completion of this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
- Review the efficacy and safety of antipsychotic agents in the treatment of schizophrenia
- Discuss the side effects associated with first and second generation antipsychotics
- Comment on the role of polypharmacy in schizophrenia
- Outline a therapeutic strategy to overcome refractory psychosis
- Discuss diagnostic and treatment strategies for major depression with psychotic features
- Summarize available and emerging treatment options for dementia with psychotic features
- Discuss the nonpharmacological options for patients (such as exercise and neuromodulation) with depressive disorders
- Expand the therapeutic armamentarium for comorbid depression and anxiety
- Describe the therapeutic strategies available to treat bipolar depression in adults and in children
- Summarize the effective management of patients who experience mixed episodes
- Discuss pathophysiology of fibromyalgia and the mechanisms of agents used to treat patients with this disorder
