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The Accelerating Medicines Partnership in Schizophrenia aims to develop better treatments for the early stages of psychotic illness.

This year’s winner is a pioneer for the human rights of individuals with mental illness in West Africa.

What is the clinical impact of climate psychiatry?

Christine Yu Moutier, MD, is excited to see you at the APA Annual Meeting in New Orleans!

If you're attending APA 2022 in New Orleans, here are some other things to check out in the city.

Are you attending the APA Annual Meeting in New Orleans? Here's a preview of one doctor's talk on jazz and racism.

Are you attending APA’s 2022 Annual Meeting in New Orleans? Don’t miss us!

As the nation continues to grapple with the children’s mental health crisis, the American Psychiatric Association Council on Children, Adolescents, and Their Families is exploring the ways in which clinicians can best support their patients.

Sleep problems are understudied, underdiagnosed, and undertreated.

Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health Director, leverages lessons from past natural disasters and traumas to foster resiliency and inform future research endeavors.

In his William C. Menninger Memorial Lecture, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, shared lessons learned and remaining challenges for the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in terms of mental health and behavioral issues.

What is excited delirium syndrome and how should it be treated? The short answer is we do not know.

Finding a program that is a good fit while LGBTQ+ may be more difficult than it seems…

Young, professional women in academic psychiatry are facing down the iceberg: gender discrimination.

What treatments could handle both psychiatric emergencies and long-standings mental health conditions—in a hurry?

Too often, the medical issues associated with traumatic brain injury are mistakenly diagnosed as psychiatric disorders. A few simple questions and tests can elucidate the real culprit and lead to appropriate treatment.

Collaborative care guides care across disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, and primary care. The goal is to change practice, build community, and identify health professionals needing the most assistance.

According to Nora D. Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, drug use and overdose deaths have significantly increased since the outset of the pandemic. What made it worse?

What’s a psychiatrist to do? An APA ethics panel at the Annual Meeting considered various dilemmas, including possible conflicts between physicians’ obligations to individual patients and their obligation to promote the public good.

Can depression be passed on to future generations, and if it can, how can treatment help?

One doctor at the APA Virtual meeting explains how ketamine can rebuild spine and synaptic proteins in the brain, but may be difficult to actually prescribe to patients.

Timothy W. Fong, MD, touches on our current understanding about cannabis use for psychiatric disorders.

The last year has seen an unprecedented shift in the medical landscape, and mental health care is no exception. Experts look at the evidence and risks of digital tools, apps, telehealth, and other technologies for the treatment of serious mental illness.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder and related conditions do not always respond to first-line treatments. Fortunately, new options are on the horizon.

The pandemic has made caring for geriatric patients more difficult, but a panel at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting discusses the latest best practices.

Sustainability is more than just cutting carbon emissions. It means creating a system where all of us can thrive—not just survive.

This year’s theme is crucial to the role science plays in dealing with structural racism, a worldwide pandemic, and the inequities in terms of access to care for so many people.

The president of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry (AAEP) gives a preview of his APA conference presentation.

New and noteworthy sessions fill the program at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, which enters its second year as a virtual session.

Among the innovations presented at the 2019 APA meeting: voice analytics for detecting and monitoring mood, and smartphone and web-based passive data as a digital biomarker for mental health disorders.