December 2013 Highlights

This audio program introduces the DSM-5 diagnosis of somatic symptom disorder, considers a case of psychological vulnerability to persistent amnesia following anesthesia, analyzes the neuropsychiatric events in people taking varenicline to quit smoking, and reports a large study of drug-induced long QT interval in psychiatric patients. Another article describes a program to encourage paid employment for SSDI recipients with mental illness, and a long-term follow-up of a population cohort reveals retinal vascular abnormalities in people with schizophrenia. Articles can be viewed online at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org.