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Fara White, MD

Latest:

My Patient Lost Their Job…Now What?

Unemployment is associated with an array of social and psychological complexities, directly affecting patients' self-esteem and perceptions of self-worth. When a patient loses their job, the psychiatrist has 4 tasks.


Gaia Sampogna, MD, PhD

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Psychosocial Interventions to Reduce Premature Mortality in Patients With Serious Mental Illness

The mortality rate is unacceptably high in patient with serious mental illnesses. Several psychosocial interventions have been developed that may benefit these patients.


Mario Luciano, MD, PhD

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Psychosocial Interventions to Reduce Premature Mortality in Patients With Serious Mental Illness

The mortality rate is unacceptably high in patient with serious mental illnesses. Several psychosocial interventions have been developed that may benefit these patients.


Rachel Loewy, PhD

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Research in the Time of COVID-19: Virtual and Digital Technology in Studies of Early Psychosis

The use of technology that supports remote methods of communication, assessment, and mental health care has become more timely, and important for researchers to adopt, refine, and implement.


Dost Ongur, MD, PhD

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An Update on Early Intervention in Psychotic Disorders

An expert shares some clinical pearls from his lecture at the recent American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.


Tara A. Niendam, PhD

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Research in the Time of COVID-19: Virtual and Digital Technology in Studies of Early Psychosis

The use of technology that supports remote methods of communication, assessment, and mental health care has become more timely, and important for researchers to adopt, refine, and implement.


Piper Meyer-Kalos, PhD, LP

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Promoting Resiliency After First-Episode Psychosis

Simple but powerful strategies for drawing on patients’ existing character strengths and long-term goals.


Ragy R. Girgis, MD, MS

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Research in the Time of COVID-19: Virtual and Digital Technology in Studies of Early Psychosis

The use of technology that supports remote methods of communication, assessment, and mental health care has become more timely, and important for researchers to adopt, refine, and implement.


Antonio Waldo Zuardi, MD, PhD

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Exploring the Relationship Between Cannabidiol and Psychosis

The acute psychotomimetic effect of cannabis is transitory, but evidence indicates that the chronic use, especially if started in adolescence, contributes to the occurrence of schizophrenia.


José Alexandre Crippa, MD, PhD

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Exploring the Relationship Between Cannabidiol and Psychosis

The acute psychotomimetic effect of cannabis is transitory, but evidence indicates that the chronic use, especially if started in adolescence, contributes to the occurrence of schizophrenia.



Harris A. Eyre, MD, PhD

Latest:

Building the American Brain Economy

The need for brain skills comes at a time of historically poor brain health. What can be done to help?


Thomas M. Dunn, PhD

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Clean Eating to the Extreme

Although weight loss may be a favorable feature of healthful diets, "clean eating" can be taken to extremes. In this video, we interview Thomas R. Dunn, PhD, author of a recent CME for Psychiatric Times. Orthorexia Nervosa.


Nicole Hawkins, PhD, CEDS

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Orthorexia Nervosa

With increasing interest in pathologically healthful eating, there is considerable need for additional research and psychiatrists who can diagnose and treat orthorexia nervosa (ON). 


Allie Shapiro, MD

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Clinical Insights for Treating Depression and Anxiety Youth

Child psychiatrists offer their real-world experience of what they have seen in practice, together with tips and suggestions for clinicians who may be seeing similar symptoms in their young patients.



Andrea Mendiola, MD

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The Vulnerability and Resilience of Refugees During the Pandemic

Assisting and empowering refugees is important now more than ever.


Lilanthi Balasuriya, MD, MMS

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The Vulnerability and Resilience of Refugees During the Pandemic

Assisting and empowering refugees is important now more than ever.


Randall Weingarten, MD

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The Art of Sharing

Thoughts on how we celebrate with our patients when they achieve a milestone in their work or convey a more finely tuned awareness of themselves.


Benjamin Druss, MD, MPH

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Addressing Premature Mortality: Living With Serious Mental Illness

Living with a mental illness is all too often accompanied by poverty and social disadvantage, which contribute to shortened life spans and reduced quality of life. However, there approaches for addressing many of the preventable causes of poor health and mortality in this patient population.


Emma E. McGinty, PhD, MS

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Early Mortality in SMI: Federal and State Policy Initiatives

Policy initiatives can improve both physical and mental health care quality and outcomes for those with serious mental illnesses.


Gail L. Daumit, MD, MHS

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Early Mortality in SMI: Federal and State Policy Initiatives

Policy initiatives can improve both physical and mental health care quality and outcomes for those with serious mental illnesses.


Eliza Buelt, MD

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The Never-Ending Loop: Homelessness, Psychiatric Disorder, and Mortality

Mental health conditions are highly prevalent in homeless populations. Further research and advocacy are needed to address the obstacles that homeless individuals encounter in accessing mental health care.


Jack Tsai, PhD

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The Never-Ending Loop: Homelessness, Psychiatric Disorder, and Mortality

Mental health conditions are highly prevalent in homeless populations. Further research and advocacy are needed to address the obstacles that homeless individuals encounter in accessing mental health care.


Phillip Stawski, MD

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Two Perspectives: Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry

Emergency Psychiatry: Principles and Practice has something for everyone and is easily applicable to emergency and primary care.


Brandon Moore, MD, MBA

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Two Perspectives: Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry

Emergency Psychiatry: Principles and Practice has something for everyone and is easily applicable to emergency and primary care.


Suhas Chandran, MD

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11 Innovations in Psychiatry Resulting From the Pandemic

As we move forward from COVID-19, we take a look at noteworthy achievements that took place at lightning speed to inform response measures in future pandemics.


Pooja Patnaik Kuppili, MD

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Necessity Is Often the Mother of Innovation: Lessons for Psychiatry From COVID-19

Amidst the fear, worry, and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, each day seems to bring news that is worse than the day before.


Frank A. Clark, MD

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Dear America: A Psychiatrist's Reflections

A psychiatrist shares reflections via a note to America.


Josef Parnas, MD, DrMed Sci

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Talking to Patients and Rediscovering Disordered Selfhood in Schizophrenia

Selfhood: a complex and continuously evolving identity that is anchored in the patient's history and dependent on language and memory. But there is so much more.

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