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Logan Lutton

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Your Medicare Patients Are Struggling

About 1 in 6 of Medicare patients report trouble paying Medicare bills and debt.


Hewa Artin, MD

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Treatment-Resistant OCD: Strategies and Novel Treatment Options

OCD is highly comorbid and warrants consideration in difficult to treat cases. Learn more here.


Ben Adam Climer

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CAHOOTS: A Model for Prehospital Mental Health Crisis Intervention

When concern for a patient is not so severe that a clinician feels compelled to call the police, there are options.


John S. Grande, CFP

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Investing Tips in a Time of Crisis

Amidst this world of unknowns, the authors share some tips and advice to weather the financial fallout of this storm.


Zoltan Sarnyai, MD, PhD

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Boosting Brain Health After COVID-19: A Convergence Solution

How can we face the current pandemic while addressing the brain health crisis?


Jesse Woo, MD

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Exploring the Role of Brexpiprazole in Alzheimer Dementia Agitation

How efficacious is brexpiprazole as a treatment for agitation associated with Alzheimer disease?


Mariam Rahmani, MD

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What's Wrong With Health Care in the United States?

There are 4 crucial failings in our current health care system, where the importance of relationships is ignored.


Lujain Alhajji, MD

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Psychiatrists’ Response to Human Trafficking: An Update

How to help individuals caught in human trafficking: person-centered, culturally humble, trauma-informed care.


Molly Perlman, MD, MPH, CEDS, FAPA

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Concurrent Treatment of Eating Disorders and PTSD Leads to Long-Term Recovery

Concurrent treatments targeting eating disorders and PTSD are needed to help these patients with complex conditions.


Michael Asbach, DMSc, PA-C, Psych-CAQ

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Takeaways and Insights

Richard Jackson, MD, and Micheal Asbach, DMSc, PA-C, provide their key takeaways from these studies and insights on how providers can assess the impact of of tardive dyskinesia (TD) in every visit.


Judith Feld, MD, MPH, MMM, DLFAPA

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The Isolation and Disconnection of Seniors

Social distancing and quarantine have been absolutely necessary, but what effect have they had on seniors?


Jeffrey M. Cohen, PsyD

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Validation of Minoritized Experiences: It’s What’s Been Missing

Interventions that rely solely on change lack balance. This is especially true when working with minoritized individuals who have very real and justified pain stemming from systemic problems.


Heather Ward, MD

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The First Step: A Schizophrenia-Specific Intervention for Nicotine Use

Research presented at the ACNP 2023 Annual Meeting shows that neuromodulation therapy cTBS could be a viable schizophrenia-specific intervention for nicotine use.


Anna Marie Boyd, LPC, RDT, RYT-200

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An Open Letter to the Women Who Helped Shape My Career

How can the women around us help us dream, grow, and serve?


Marian Ruiz, BA

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Mental Health as a Role in Mortality Rates in Peri- and Postpartum Black Women

Black mothers in the US experience far worse outcomes. Here’s what clinicians need to know.


Alexis Skoufalos, EdD

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How Can Digital Tools Improve Medication Adherence?

Patients’ reports of medication adherence are sometimes inaccurate, but digital tools offer opportunities to collect objective data.


Richard Payerchin

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Goodbye Noncompetes: Federal Trade Commission Votes to Ban Noncompete Clauses

The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to ban noncompete clauses between employers and workers, citing health care specifically among their reasons for supporting the ban.



Elena Koundourakis

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The Role of Orexin Receptor 2 Agonists in Sleep and Narcolepsy Type 1

Elena Koundourakis, the head of the Orexin Franchise Development and Portfolio Strategy at Takeda, shares her thoughts on the recent positive topline results from a phase 2 trial evaluating TAK-861, an oral orexin receptor 2 agonist, in patients with narcolepsy type 1.


Marvin Goldfried, PhD

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Ending the Psychotherapy Civil War

There is absolutely no good reason for competition among therapies—none is by itself necessary or sufficient, and most are completely complementary, even synergistic.



Chris Santarsiero, MBA

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The Whole Continuum of Behavioral Health Care: Reintroduction of the 988 Implementation Act

The 988 Implementation Act was introduced on July 25. What impact will it have on care?


Sanjai Rao, MD, DFAPA

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Advice for Clinicians Treating Schizophrenia

Sanjai Rao, MD, DFAPA, and Kimberly Garcia, DNP, CRNP provide some advice to clinicians on explaining schizophrenia to patients and caregivers to achieve understanding and therapy adherence.


Shalini G. Nayak, MPhil, MScN

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Media & Mental Health: The Need for More Credible Information

Has the media’s obsession with the COVID-19 pandemic put global mental health at risk?



Anthony Pacilio

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Programs Promote Well-Being and Career Support for the Neurodiverse Community

How can we bridge the gap between job-seekers in this community and inclusion-minded organizations?


Ronnie Lee, PsyD

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Bulimia Nervosa: Diagnostic Clarification and Determining Levels of Care

Approximately 30 million individuals will be diagnosed with an eating disorder in the United States during their lifetime.


Kenneth Ashley, MD

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Psychiatrists Call for End to Cruel and Harmful Immigration Policy

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.


Hira Hanif, MD

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Normal Life Stress, They Say…

Recovery from addiction does not protect against normal life events...


George Ikkos, FRCPsych

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Non-Sensuous Similarities: Language, Poetics, and Psychiatry

One doctor introduces the work of philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin and elements of his conceptualization of “experience.”

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