Many artists who have struggled with an eating disorder are generating content that is promoted by the entertainment industry, and when these conditions go unaddressed, the content has the potential to influence consumers.
One author shares his experience with suicidal, psychotic depression and the life events that he connects to its origins.
The specialized device is being studied for patients receiving inpatient care for acute myeloid leukemia.
Learn how to use this simple heuristic model, which illustrates both the interplay of social (historical and current), psychological, and biological factors in the development of psychopathology.
Fragile X syndrome is one of the most common inherited causes of intellectual disability, right below Down syndrome. How are basic science findings being translated into treatments for patients with neurodevelopment disorders, like Fragile X syndrome?
How can mental health professionals and law enforcement work together to get individuals in mental health crisis the care they need?
Sometimes, the book is better than the movie; sometimes vice versa. But there is a lot we don't know as to why in-person therapy works for some and why digital works for others. In this video, experts discuss the evidence.
A new transcranial direct current stimulation device received approval from the FDA for an investigational device exemption, prompting a phase 3 trial.
Here’s why most of the claims recently made about antidepressants in Newsweek are wrong.
Presenting the first-prize winner of the 2022 Gerald F. Berlin Creative Writing Award.
Learn more about a comprehensive system of care for those who are in crisis and need immediate access to care, aided by the new 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
A new meta-analysis identifies target for improved care in patients with schizophrenia.
We need policies that make digital therapeutics accessible and acceptable to a broad patient audience. What barriers are there to reaching that goal?
In this CME, learn more about implementing formal or informal collaboration with the primary care clinicians with whom you share care of your child patients.
Herbal medicines have been used to treat mental health disorders since ancient times, and continue to be useful today.
How can we support faculty and staff mental health to benefit those individuals, as well as students and educational institutions?
Evidence indicates that children and adolescents with ADHD have a more than 4-fold increased risk of schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders in adulthood compared with the general population.
Key nutrients are essential to maintaining health. Here's an overview of B12.
Here are 4 things to do when implementing a treatment strategy for tardive dyskinesia.
Contingency management is an effective behavior change technique commonly used to treat substance use disorders.
Comorbidity: The concept is simple enough, but in practice, comorbidity drives complexity and presents the specters of diagnostic ambiguity and therapeutic unpredictability.
Rejecting reality does not change it. How does radical acceptance help int he era of COVID-19?
An update on recent advances and learnings from ongoing studies.
Practical tips for helping patients and simultaneously avoiding legal battles.
Recent research indicates 6.1 million children, or 3 per classroom, possess the symptoms for an attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnosis.
Experts discuss findings from a new trial exploring affect-focused psychotherapies for LGBTQ+ patients with PTSD at the 2023 APA Annual Meeting.
What is the difference between self-esteem and self-confidence to self-promote—and how does it affect women in clinical practice?
Study results presented at the 2023 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.
Women experience depression at rates twice that of men. But Black women are only half as likely to seek care as White women. Here's what you can do to help this population.