It isn’t straightforward to remain on high of the medical literature in any subject. The variety of journals and publications has elevated dramatically during the last decade. After we first began this web site, there have been a handful of articles to learn every week. Now, it’s straightforward to search out 50 or so publications every week which can be related to the follow 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 major supply of knowledge. 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. For those who join an account on NCBI, you possibly can specify your search parameter and get e mail alerts. For those who 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 probably the most articles printed within the following journals
Journal of Scientific Psychiatry (JCP) – Join alerts
Archives of Ladies’s Psychological Well being – Join alerts
JAMA Psychiatry – Join alerts
American Journal of Psychiatry – Join alerts
The primary two journals are significantly helpful. JCP beneath the management of our very personal Dr. Marlene Freeman contains a quarterly challenge specializing in girls’s psychological well being. Along with unique analysis, these points function a column by Chittaranjan Andrade, MD; these are considerate and well-researched articles about present matters in our subject. (Bonus: The complete-text of those columns is accessible to non-subscribers free of charge.)
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 unhealthy) 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 matters in drugs. They typically seem within the press earlier than the unique articles are printed and are straightforward 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 give attention to uncommon and dramatic outcomes and fewer more likely to publish articles supporting the reproductive security of a selected remedy. Lastly, they typically summarize simply the article or piece of stories 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 few of the ones I exploit most regularly. I obtain every day alerts from the next sources:
Healio Psychiatry and Healio Ladies’s Well being & OB/GYN – My present favourite. 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 should plow via the entire article in search of the magic hyperlink. You’ll be able to join every day alerts on the house web page.
MedPage At this time Psychiatry – Additionally a superb useful resource. Visually this aggregator is considerably harder to scan the headlines as a result of they lump tales collectively. Nonetheless, the knowledge they current is mostly good. You’ll be able to join alerts on the house web page.
Medscape Psychiatry – I was a giant fan of Medscape. I believe the standard of writing is sweet; nonetheless, watch out for signing up for alerts. I not too long ago 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 at the moment are peer-reviewed. Whereas they don’t current unique analysis or carry the status of high tier journals; the articles are typically well-written and clinically related. You’ll be able to 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 few of the extra substantive articles are written by consultants within the subject.
Psychiatric Instances – Revealed by the APA. Unique articles and opinion items, however much less generally has articles on perinatal psychiatry.
MDEdge ObGyn (beforehand generally known as Ob/Gyn Information) – This journal options a column from our very personal Dr. Lee Cohen which covers essential points in reproductive psychiatry.
Google Scholar Alerts might be useful for staying abreast of a slim subject, for example new articles on zuranolone or articles from a selected writer; nonetheless, for basic articles this kind of alert is usually slightly 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
