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The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new medication for the treatment of insomnia.

Delirium: an underrecognized, underdiagnosed medical condition.

Here’s how to help patients see the light when faced with the winter blues.

In this CME article, learn more about the controversies surrounding Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment, and common neuropsychiatric presentations of and treatment options.

If a patient gives consent to be killed, is a physician ethically justified in acceding to the request?

What word best describes 2021 for you?

In the face of opposition from doctors, clinics, and courts, Victor Escobar became the first Colombian to die via euthanasia on Friday January 7, 2022.

The glass is half full: reflections on where we are and hope for where we are heading in psychiatry.

The new Studio Lab at Northwestern University School of Communication aims to fight stigma by providing positive depictions of mental health in media.

As rising health care needs meet inadequate resources and overstressed physicians, is a strike necessary?

One doctor introduces the work of philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin and elements of his conceptualization of “experience.”

Paying tribute to a man who believed in family and health care equity.

A psychiatrist shares his love of poetry and how it has helped him personally and professionally.

The stigma surrounding both suicide and physician-assisted suicide is a challenging topic. One of our readers tackles it.

COVID-19 has prompted an unprecedented shift toward virtual psychiatric health care—but how do patients and providers really feel about it?

Representative Jason Ortitay and Senator Steve Santarsiero have introduced legislation to help increase awareness of eating disorders in children.

How can we examine the distress of 1/6/21 through a lens of clinical psychiatry?

Patients weigh in on their experiences living with and receiving treatment for the disorder.

How can we better define, clarify, and expand the Goldwater Rule for ethical and effective use in today's society?

The supplemental new drug application of brexpiprazole for the treatment of schizophrenia in pediatric patients aged 13 to 17 received FDA approval.

Does psychiatry need criticism in order to improve?

Today marks the 1-year anniversary of the conflict at the Capitol. What psychiatric trauma did this event leave in its wake?

In 2021, we lost some excellent psychiatrists who stuck to their convictions and changed psychiatry as we know it.

Study also suggests link between postpartum depression and insomnia.

Is cannabis’ effect on schizophrenia being downplayed?

Here's why we need more effective training, practice, and advocacy regarding the social determinants of mental health.

Does it sometimes take distance to better understand one another?

Finding peace, integrity, and new traditions despite discrimination and rejection.

The new Mayor of New York is looking for a very specific skill in his appointees: empathy.