Our Mood Disorders Section Editor discusses the disorder in honor of World Bipolar Day.
Non-white veteran women of color may be at greater risk of developing heart disease, according to research.
The development of the National Pediatric Boarding Consensus Panel guidelines attempts to provide hospitals suggestions for a safe, timely, and equitable standard of care for patients who are boarding.
Rosine Perelberg, PhD, discusses psychoanalytic thought, social anthropology, and the future of psychoanalysis.
The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (America’s mental health think tank) calls for an end to the use of Title 42 to expel asylum seekers at the southern border. This policy places LGBTIQ asylum seekers in particular danger.
Are there parts of the movie “It Ends With Us” that could have suicide protective effects for viewers?
Violence against women and resulting traumatic brain injuries increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.
An added component of cancer treatment is discovering what is most meaningful in the patient’s life and using that to buoy them during difficult moments. That, in a nutshell, is the psychiatrist's role.
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.
The PDUFA date for KarXT for schizophrenia is September 26, 2024. Here’s what one expert thinks of this potential treatment.
Why is resiliency important for patients with borderline personality disorder—and the clinicians who treat them?
Sociocultural factors have been shown to impact both the presentation and course of schizophrenia/psychosis. Learn more here.
How can you handle patient gifts as a clinician?
Learn what potential challenges come with mHealth apps and how to overcome them to best fit patient needs.
Does a lack of abortion access fuel mental illness by exacerbating stress, poverty, and domestic violence? Learn more here.
Psychiatrists have valuable insights on political and societal issues that can be shared with the psychiatric community.
How can we improve rural mental health?
In this CME, learn more about the pathophysiology of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder and to review the research and various tools used to aid in the diagnosis.
Drs Paul Doghramji and Leslie Citrome share approaches to communicate with patients and increase awareness of insomnia disorder
Validating some patients could lead to both clinician and patient harm.
In the early 20th century, British and American doctors looked for the causes of mental illnesses elsewhere in the body, with gruesome results.
We seek to reduce vaccine side effects—but what about the social media-compounded fears of anti-COVID vaccination?
An understanding of evolving risk factors and pathophysiology is vital to optimal clinical management of anxiety disorders and PTSD.
Learn more about how cognitive behavior therapy can be used as a healing tool in marginalized communities.
“The acute and long-term psychological consequences of this tragedy will require large-scale aid.”
Research is underway to make psychedelics agents a treatment option for psychiatric disorders.
This diverse group of women came together to explore the challenges in treating mental illness in patients who identify as female.
“We didn’t pick this political fight, but we will stand up for our patients, for the policies of this House, and for our profession.”
The vaccine needs to be appropriately framed: as a benefit, not a risk.
Has the media’s obsession with the COVID-19 pandemic put global mental health at risk?