COVID-19 has prompted an unprecedented shift toward virtual psychiatric health care—but how do patients and providers really feel about it?
It is an uncomfortable emotion that is often suppressed—but potent.
In this custom video series, Rose Mary Xavier, PhD, MS, RN, PMHNP-BC, shares advice that can be helpful to community providers who manage children and adult patients prescribed antipsychotic therapy about screening for involuntary body movements and early signs of tardive dyskinesia.
In this CME article, learn more about the efficacy and tolerability of brexpiprazole for the treatment of agitation among individuals with Alzheimer disease dementia.
Brain Capital: a fresh approach to technologies and investing.
This diverse group of women came together to explore the challenges in treating mental illness in patients who identify as female.
What is the mindset of “anti-vaxxers,” and how can you connect with them as a clinician?
In a shock-prone world, city-level thinking is a new approach to optimizing the brain health and brain skills of citizens.
How can recognizing the pandemic's impact on MSDs help us increase funding, research, and implementation of MSD treatment?
Given the significant variation in medical cannabis laws amongst states and the continually shifting legal landscape regarding its use, medical cannabis presents a unique challenge for medical professionals who consider recommending it to their patients
A case report and literature review of intrathecal methotrexate-induced mania.
“It is of the utmost importance to provide culturally competent forensic psychiatric services that are better suited to the needs of the African American community.”
Are your patients feeling stressed out? Here are 10 tips to share with them for a less stressful holiday season.
After 30+ years of clinical experience with clozapine, it is time for professional psychiatry to demand an end to this discriminatory clozapine REMS program.
A range of therapeutic targets are likely to be relevant for reducing risk of suicide in TRD. Here's what you need to know.
Climate change is a devastating existential threat that can exaggerate preexisting inequities and health/mental health problems. As mental health professionals committed to understanding deep emotional wounds and addressing complexities of relationships, psychiatrists have the tools to assist in bridging the current gaps.
What can be done to mitigate stress and reduce burnout?
The American Academy of Pediatrics included these testimonies in a statement submitted to the US Senate Judiciary Committee in advance of the committee’s hearing on gun violence prevention.
Psychiatrists may wish to engage the primary care team to conduct a comprehensive case formulation that takes cultural factors into account.
It is essential that clinicians take an active approach in creating a culturally safe space to provide mental health care to WoC.
What psychiatric illnesses are most prevalent among veterans? And how can clinicians help them overcome obstacles to care?
It is an uncomfortable emotion that is often suppressed—but potent.
Mental health leads with 36% of all outpatient visits and 39% of all telehealth services. What effect does this have on psychiatric practice?
A case for why psychiatrists should discuss the COVID vaccines with their patients.
Medicare's in-person requirement threatens access to quality care.
In this CME, learn more about frontotemporal lobar degeneration and the several overlapping syndromes that it encompasses, as well as how to distinguish behavioral variant frontotemporal lobar degeneration from other psychiatric disorders.
A year after being hospitalized with COVID, a physician considers the pandemic’s larger meaning for American medicine—and for American society.