Authors


Kristen Laster, MD

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“I Want to Do This for My Baby”: The Woes of Pregnancy and Addiction

Substance use disorder may prove to be a significant issue for some mothers.


Sophie Lykkegaard Ravn, PhD

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Exploring the Relationship Between Posttraumatic Stress and Chronic Pain

The high co-occurrence of chronic pain and PTSD and their possible entanglement underline the importance of conducting assessment for both conditions.


Angie Waliski, PhD

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Safety Planning: A Tool for Peers As Well?

Safety planning by peers is feasible and acceptable to patients, might result in decreased ED visits, and may represent a way of implementing safety plans in rural EDs.


Phil Ryan, MD

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Treatment-Resistant Geriatric Depression: Augmenting or Switching an Antidepressant

Recent research investigated the benefits and risks of augmentation compared with switching strategies for TRD in older adults.


Tracy K. Mullare, MD

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Increasing Access to Quality Mental Health Care Through Telepsychiatry

43 of 50 states are experiencing a severe shortage in psychiatrists specializing in child and adolescent care. Telehealth may be able to help.


María José Lisotto, MD

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Reconceptualizing Hispanics in America: From Reading Stark Statistics to Confronting Racial and Ethnic Trauma

Understanding a patient's sociocultural background will have an important effect on treatment, especially for Hispanic patients.


Vimal M. Aga, MD, FAPA

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Lewy Body Dementia: Unpacking a Neuropsychiatric Enigma

In this CME, learn the current criteria, unique diagnostic biomarkers, and differential diagnosis of Lewy body dementia.


Clifford Sussman, MD

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Dopamine Detoxification for Problematic Gaming

Problematic gaming is challenging to treat. Here's how you can get started.


Ashutosh Sabharwal, PhD

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From Theory to Real-World Practice: Clinical Integration of Digital Therapeutics

Digital therapeutics may be the biggest paradigm-shifting change medicine has seen yet...


Sehba Husain-Krautter MD, PhD

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Concurrent Treatment With SRIs and Anticoagulants: Minimizing the Hemorrhagic Hazard

An important adverse effect of SRIs: their association with increased bleeding.


Nery A. Diaz, DO, FAPA

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Improving Outcomes in Late-Life Schizophrenia

What treatment strategies are available to improve the quality of life for older adults who are aging with schizophrenia?


Sue Cunliffe, MBchB, RCPCH

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Raising Doubts About ECT

ECT has been in use for decades, but does that mean it is safe or effective?


Angela Praecht, MSc (Cand)

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Intimate Partner Violence Victimization: How It Relates to Substance Use in Women

In this CME, review the risks and clinical implications of intimate partner violence on women’s substance use and treatment.


Asaf Caspi, MD

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Mental Health Responses to the Recent Conflict in Israel

What is the psychiatric impact of the current war in Gaza?


Claire E. Koljack, MD

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Comorbidity of Anorexia Nervosa and Schizophrenia: A Case Study and Review of the Literature

Anorexia nervosa may be underdiagnosed in patients with schizophrenia due to difficulty in distinguishing the two comorbid conditions.


Jenni E. Farrow, MD

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Neuroprogression of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents

Critical brain maturation occurs from fetal development through adolescence; given the complex and variable nature of these changes, disentangling abnormal neurodevelopment from neuroprogression is a formidable task.


Mary Barber, MD, MDiv

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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.


Allie Karas, MA

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Psychopharmacology Conference Offers New Research, Prescribing Tips

Check out the best clinical pearls from the 2022 Neuroscience Education Institute (NEI) Congress!


Oliver J. Lindhiem, PhD

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Issues in Regulating DTx

We need policies that make digital therapeutics accessible and acceptable to a broad patient audience. What barriers are there to reaching that goal?


Glenn Mark Losack, MD

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Giving Up His Beepers for Nikon Cameras

With his camera in his hand, a psychiatrist searches for our common humanity on the streets of the developing world.


Bernardo Dell’Osso, MD

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Gender and Sex Issues in Bipolar Disorder

What are the differences in epidemiological and clinical characteristics of bipolar disorder between the sexes?


Eric W. Bennett

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Brain Capital: An Emerging Investment Opportunity

Brain Capital: a fresh approach to technologies and investing.


M. Justin Coffey, MD, DFAPA, FANPA, CHCIO

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Telehealth for the Treatment of OUD in Pregnant Patients

How can telehealth aid in the treatment of opioid use disorders in this patient population?


Andrew J. Schuman, MD

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Facilitating Autism Diagnosis

Autism spectrum disorder often evades formal diagnosis until a child is 4 years or older, but these artificial intelligence and telehealth systems may be able to help facilitate diagnosis.


Victoria Harris, DPsych, MA

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Looking for a Way to Beat Back-to-School Anxiety? Maybe It’s Time to Get Creative

These imaginative exercises can help clinicians establish a strong therapeutic alliance with nervous youngsters.


Susan J. Noonan, MD, MPH

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Facilitating Conflict Resolution

Check out these recommendations for facilitating conflict resolution.


Lawrence E. Kaplan, DO

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Case-Based Clinical Approaches for Clinicians

There are myriad nuanced clinical approaches to cancer treatment, and psychosocial factors are no less complex.


James Rachal, MD

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Building Psychiatric Administrators and Leaders for the the Future

The President-Elect of the AAPAL sat down with Psychiatric Times at the 2024 APA Annual Meeting to discuss building leaders.


Gary S. Seale, PhD, LPA, LCDC, CBIS-T

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Suicidality and Suicide Prevention Following Brain Injury

Research shows an increased risk for suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, and even death by suicide following brain injury.


Syed Murtaza, MD

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Unmasking the Hidden Dangers: Office Duster Abuse as an Example of Inhalant Use Disorder

Inhalant use disorder is characterized by the intentional inhalation of volatile substances for their psychoactive effects. Learn more about how to help manage this disorder.

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