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How safe and effective are mental health apps? What’s the impact of social media on youth? Insights here from presenters at APA 2019.

You don’t need to be a tech wizard to help patients and offer guidance on digital mental health tools.

Even as antidepressants improve mood, they can worsen sleep-and poor sleep is both a symptom and a cause of depression.

Does psychiatry have an implicit bias about religion?

Psychiatrists' knowledge about how the mind works may be the “secret ingredient” to help reduce burnout in other physicians.

Our ethical priorities must include the care of our colleagues as well as our patients of backgrounds subject to hate and discrimination.

A lively ongoing debate is examining the ethics and legality of age-based evaluation of clinicians.

How to make cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis feasible in a busy practice with limited resources.

Is creativity augmented or inhibited by mental illness? Insights from 4 case studies of troubled yet brilliant minds.

The key to identification of prodromal psychosis may lie in community-based outreach.

First-episode psychosis cases are presented here using the RAISE study model-individual sessions, family psycho-education, social advancement in school work, and an expert psychiatrist prescriber.

Is there clinical evidence for the use of digital tools like smartphone apps for schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses?

Depression can be accompanied by cognitive symptoms, but the nature of the relationship between these symptom categories is multifaceted.

What are the effects on the clinician who loses a patient? How to respond?

The elephant in the room: the problem of iatrogenic opioid use disorder is being ignored.

More than 50 years have passed since One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was published, and almost 40 years since the movie was released, but the issues seem as relevant today as they were back then. If you haven’t seen the film or have forgotten what you saw, see it again as soon as you can. Here's why.

How to manage EHRs is at the top of the list of physician concerns, according to past AMA President Jeremy Lazarus, MD. The first psychiatrist to lead the AMA in over 70 years, Dr Lazarus addressed the Assembly at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in New York in May.

As the use of social media becomes necessary for the online presence of medical professionals, this topic will continue to be essential for the training of both current and future psychiatrists.

Mood disorders in older adults are neither inevitable nor particularly resistant to treatment. With attention to the special needs of older patients during evaluation, treatment, and follow up, clinicians can help many patients derive greater enjoyment from their later years.

We talk about mental disorders as brain disorders, but what does that really mean? How does it change the way we think about autism, schizophrenia, depression, bipolar, and other illnesses? The answer to these questions are still evolving. More in this video exclusive with NIMH Director Thomas Insel, MD.

Vice President of the United States Joe Biden spoke at this year's American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in New York. Here, a video clip from his speech.

Is bipolar disorder overdiagnosed? Underdiagnosed? Neither? In this podcast, Dr S. Nassir Ghaemi offers his perspective on those questions.

The removal of the so-called “bereavement exclusion” (BE) from DSM-5 was one of the most difficult and controversial decisions the DSM-5 work groups made, and many clinicians continue to find the distinction between ordinary grief and major depression confusing.

There has been a lot of publicity about hearing loss as a predisposing factor to depression and dementia. What about visual problems? These questions and more in this expert Q&A.

Agitation is a spectrum of symptoms . . . it can go all the way from being irritable up to pacing to lashing out to clenched fists to outright violence. Intervention via de-escalation techniques at an early stage is optimal. More in this podcast.

It seems ironic that the Oedipus myth about self-inflicted blindness is so central to psychiatry, but there are few guidelines on treating sensory loss. Here, the evolution of an APA workshop on treating patients with visual impairments.

What are the psychological and physiological effects of persistent loneliness? How prevalent in the US? What role can cognitive behavioral therapy play for persistently lonely people? In this podcast, an expert offers a brief overview of this underappreciated, but often overlooked, problem.

Presenting a Q&A with Dr Rajesh Tampi and Deena Tampi on the issue of behavioral health in accountable care.

Running into an old friend at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting: Use hashtag #APAAM14.