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The 2022 APA Annual Meeting highlights the latest guidelines for these treatments, plus recommendations for updates and improvements.

Experts address cognitive dysfunction found in patients with long COVID at the 2022 APA Annual Meeting.

Zuranolone, an investigational oral drug being evaluated in women with postpartum depression, sees positive phase 3 study results.

In cases of parental alienation, these 8 steps should happen.

"This pandemic represents an unprecedented time that requires a psychiatrist’s vigilance in identifying patients at risk for COVID-19–induced psychosis."

You’ve heard of MADD—Mother’s Against Drunk Driving—but what about DIGS?

What will society do to children in order to make them win? What should be sacrificed in the name of competition? How much pressure is too much? And how do we pick up the pieces when young athletes are pushed too far?

The misperception of gunmen as “crazy” is damaging. Here’s why.

Mourning this Memorial Day extends beyond just veterans…

Understanding the additive effects of stigma surrounding dual diagnosis with both substance use disorder and a mental illness.

What's the latest update on cannabis legislation and its clinical utility?

Apply for a scholarship for the NCCHC Correctional Mental Health Care Conference!

Unless there are substantive societal changes at many levels, the answer may be yes.

"Limiting definitions of recovery to abstinence and the absence of AUD symptoms fail to capture the multidimensional and heterogeneous pathways to recovery that research has shown to exist among both treatment-seeking and population samples."

Presenting the second-prize winner of the 2022 Gerald F. Berlin Creative Writing Award.

A psychiatrist reflects on yesterday's tragedy in Texas.

How can better supporting the mental health of faculty and staff on college campuses help improve the mental health of college students—and educational institutions themselves?

The prevalence of annual alcohol consumption is highest in full-time college students 1 to 4 years after high school.

This model of care aims to bear witness and break the cycles of trauma that can otherwise permanently damage us as individuals, families, and communities.

We need to focus on gun violence and control. Here’s what psychiatry can do.

Patience should always be used in the service of healing and helping.

A look at the latest in evidence-based care and innovative treatment for substance use and addiction.

The US Surgeon General officially addresses health care worker burnout.

What are the neuropsychiatric effects of sparring in mixed martial arts? New research presented at the 2022 APA Annual Meeting elucidates the issues.

“This model challenges the idea that many neurodivergent individuals necessarily have neurological or cognitive pathologies, as well as the idea that neurotypicals are necessarily superior...”

Research explored how a traumatic explosion affected individuals around the world.

Is psychotherapy under attack?

What are the current dosing guidelines for the implementation of pharmacogenetics into practice?

How can we more effectively help patients with PTSD? Charles B. Nemeroff discusses the diagnosis, epidemiology, and pathophysiology of PTSD, along with current and emerging treatments, at the 2022 APA Annual Meeting.

Does this governor candidate for California sound like a psychiatrist? How do his policies stress the importance of psychiatry?