Key result
Elite athletes experience a notable prevalence of drug misuse, eating disorders, and brain injury, requiring competent psychiatric management and careful consideration of psychopharmacological adverse effects.
Elite athletes have specific psychiatric needs including management of drug misuse, eating disorders, brain injury, and careful consideration of psychopharmacology adverse effects.
Alerts clinicians to psychiatric vulnerabilities in elite athletes; leaves open athlete-specific guidelines and prospective trials.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the literature on psychiatry for elite athletes. METHOD: Relevant literature was presented to the general psychiatrist. RESULTS: The prevalence of drug misuse, eating disorders and brain injury in elite and professional athletes is stressed. The uniquely troublesome adverse effects of psychopharmacology in this group of subjects is commented upon. CONCLUSIONS: Elite athletes may require competent and informed psychiatric opinion and management.
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A. D. Macleod (1998) conducted a review in Psychiatric conditions in elite athletes. Psychiatric management was evaluated. Elite athletes experience a notable prevalence of drug misuse, eating disorders, and brain injury, requiring competent psychiatric management and careful consideration of psychopharmacological adverse effects.
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