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.
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.
Check out the best clinical pearls from the 2022 Neuroscience Education Institute (NEI) Congress!
We need policies that make digital therapeutics accessible and acceptable to a broad patient audience. What barriers are there to reaching that goal?
With his camera in his hand, a psychiatrist searches for our common humanity on the streets of the developing world.
What are the differences in epidemiological and clinical characteristics of bipolar disorder between the sexes?
Brain Capital: a fresh approach to technologies and investing.
How can telehealth aid in the treatment of opioid use disorders in this patient population?
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.
These imaginative exercises can help clinicians establish a strong therapeutic alliance with nervous youngsters.
How best can a clinician advise their patients during hardships?
There are myriad nuanced clinical approaches to cancer treatment, and psychosocial factors are no less complex.
The President-Elect of the AAPAL sat down with Psychiatric Times at the 2024 APA Annual Meeting to discuss building leaders.
Resilience is dynamic and modifiable and is associated with positive rehabilitation outcomes following brain injury. Engaging patients in interventions to develop and strengthen resilience may improve rehabilitation outcomes by promoting psychosocial adjustment, mitigating emotional distress, and enhancing community participation.
Inhalant use disorder is a form of substance use disorder characterized by the intentional inhalation of volatile substances for their psychoactive effects.
Considering challenges and opportunities in digital health solutions for mental health care.
What is a sleep disorder? Explore the complexities of their definitions and the impact of circadian rhythms on health and well-being.
One doctor shares how psychiatry can have a permanent impact on patients and their families.
How can BPD traits affect the transition to parenthood?
Discover how PAs like Erin Crown, MHS, PA-C, Psych-CAQ, are transforming mental health care, bridging gaps, and expanding access to psychiatric services nationwide.
In this CME article, learn more about the complexities of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Parkinson disease, including psychosis and cognitive impairment, and effective treatment strategies.
Digital therapeutics may be the biggest paradigm-shifting change medicine has seen yet...
Here are 3 ways you can help prevent and overcome difficult situations with patients.
Which innovations can improve measurement, technology, investment, and public policy surrounding brain health?
Some patients are intractably and maybe even irredeemably ill. What should be done for them?
Self discipline, respect, and concentration... sports can help build many skills in patients with ADHD.
Apimostinel is in development for the treatment of acute depressive disorders and depression with suicidality.
Each year more than 440,000 people in the United States die of smoking-related illness, and nearly half a billion dollars in health-related economic losses are directly attributable to smoking.
Many psychiatrists limit the application of their skills to individuals whose discomfort matches the phenomenological criteria of DSM-IV-TR. Can psychiatry transcend the concept of "objective cure" and include "subjective perfection" as a goal? Is there a logical reason why the concept of "treatment pills" cannot coexist with that of "lifestyle pills" on the psychiatric prescription pad? Dr. Giannini reflects on whether there can be both "cosmetic" as well as "reconstructive" psychiatry and if a disease is needed in order to be treated.
The original STAR*D authors refute claims of a violated protocol.