It isn’t simple to remain on high of the medical literature in any area. The variety of journals and publications has elevated dramatically over the past decade. After we first began this web site, there have been a handful of articles to learn every week. Now, it’s simple to search out 50 or so publications every week which are related to the apply of perinatal psychiatry.
On our web site, we attempt to keep abreast of the most recent information, and you might be, in fact, welcome to proceed to make use of our web site as your main supply of data. However many individuals need to know what I learn and the way I discover out about present literature. I’m together with that info right here.
Pubmed – That is clearly the perfect supply for unique analysis, however it requires time and persistence. If you happen to join an account on NCBI, you possibly can specify your search parameter and get e mail alerts. If you happen to enter one thing like “despair AND being pregnant”, you’re going to get about 35-50 articles per week. These Pubmed searches present the content material for our weekly roundups.
ToC (Desk of Contents) Alerts for particular publications ship you e mail notifications of the Desk of Contents of newly printed journal points. For perinatal psychiatry, I discover essentially the most articles printed within the following journals
Journal of Medical Psychiatry (JCP) – Sign up for alerts
Archives of Ladies’s Psychological Well being – Sign up for alerts
JAMA Psychiatry – Sign up for alerts
American Journal of Psychiatry – Sign up for alerts
The primary two journals are significantly helpful. JCP beneath the management of our very personal Dr. Marlene Freeman incorporates a quarterly challenge focusing on women’s mental health. Along with unique analysis, these points function a column by Chittaranjan Andrade, MD; these are considerate and well-researched articles about present subjects in our area. (Bonus: The total-text of those columns is offered to non-subscribers without cost.)
Whereas these journals publish wonderful articles on girls’s psychological well being, many articles on the reproductive security of medicines don’t, nonetheless, seem in these journals. They have a tendency to seem in Pediatrics, the Journal of Pediatrics, JAMA, New England Journal of Drugs, and PLoS Drugs. It’s time-consuming to scan for these articles. The nice (and dangerous) information is that many articles associated to the protection of medicines used throughout being pregnant seem on well being information aggregators.
Well being Information Aggregators are useful inroads to studying about specific subjects in medication. They usually seem within the press earlier than the unique articles are printed and are simple to scan; nonetheless, there are some caveats. Information aggregators usually tend to publish splashy articles and to make use of eye-catching headlines. They’re extra more likely to concentrate on uncommon and dramatic outcomes and fewer more likely to publish articles supporting the reproductive security of a selected treatment. Lastly, they usually summarize simply the article or piece of reports in query and don’t put this info in a bigger context.
That mentioned, aggregators are a great way to get a lay of the land. I’m sharing my opinions on a number of the ones I exploit most continuously. I obtain each day alerts from the next sources:
Healio Psychiatry and Healio Women’s Health & OB/GYN – My present favorites. One of many nice issues about Healio is that they put the reference (with a hyperlink) on the high of the article so that you don’t need to plow by the entire article in search of the magic hyperlink. You possibly can join each day alerts on the house web page.
MedPage Today Psychiatry – Additionally useful resource. Visually this aggregator is considerably harder to scan the headlines as a result of they lump tales collectively. Nonetheless, the data they current is usually good. You possibly can join alerts on the house web page.
Medscape Psychiatry – I was a giant fan of Medscape. I feel the standard of writing is sweet; nonetheless, watch out for signing up for alerts. I just lately canceled my subscriptions as a result of I used to be getting 10-20 emails from Medscape per day.
Free Medical Journals – We used to name these “throwaway journals” as a result of they got here to your mailbox whether or not you needed them or not and since they don’t seem to be peer-reviewed. Most of those journals are actually peer-reviewed. Whereas they don’t current unique analysis or carry the status of high tier journals; the articles are usually well-written and clinically related. You possibly can join e mail alerts for any of those.
Psychiatry Advisor – This journal presents a mixture of aggregated and unique articles. Occasional articles on girls’s psychological well being; a number of the extra substantive articles are written by consultants within the area.
Psychiatric Times – Printed by the APA. Authentic articles and opinion items, however much less generally has articles on perinatal psychiatry.
MDEdge ObGyn (beforehand referred to as Ob/Gyn Information) – This journal options a column from our very own Dr. Lee Cohen which covers vital points in reproductive psychiatry.
Google Scholar Alerts might be useful for staying abreast of a slim matter, as an example new articles on zuranolone or articles from a selected writer; nonetheless, for basic articles this sort of alert is usually reasonably nonspecific and takes a very long time to scan.
Hopefully that is useful info. Be at liberty to share different approaches.
Ruta Nonacs, MD PhD
