For older people and frail people, the long-term benefit of medicines reduces and the potential for harm from adverse effects increases. When the benefit–risk balance changes in this way, medicine review and optimisation are important to simplify the therapeutic regimen, reduce inappropriate medicines and minimise risks. In this article, pharmacist prescriber Linda Bryant uses two case studies to illustrate important considerations during medicine reviews
PTSD and its treatment rooted in known neuroanatomical and neuroendocrine systems
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PTSD and its treatment rooted in known neuroanatomical and neuroendocrine systems
Wednesday 19 June 2019, 03:00 AM

Nightmares can be associated with symptoms suggestive of excessive adrenaline release
This article by forensic psychiatrist James Gardiner discusses the continued evolution and recent reconceptualisation of the clinical syndrome of post-traumatic stress disorder and outlines possible pharmacological approaches to the treatment of PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a relatively new diagnosis, being first proposed in the 1970s and formalised in DSM-III in the 1980s. Accounts of sy
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