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Cultural differences between patients and physician are hard to avoid. How can you best work with diverse patients?

Transgender youth are at increased risk for a number of psychiatric morbidities. Gender identity conversion therapy can make them worse.

Sheldon Preskorn, MD, shares insights into drug mechanisms and delivery to better help patients with major depressive disorder.

Phase 3 results on MDMA-assisted therapy look promising for the treatment of PTSD. What other disorders can psychedelics help treat?

A psychiatrist reflects on career changes as he embarks on a new adventure.

Sidney Zisook, MD, shares insights into defining depression diagnosis.

Chronic adolescent exposure to THC and cannabis could lead to adverse mental health outcomes and impacted brain functioning.

Health care workers have always been prone to stress and burnout, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the issue. What do we know about burnout and how can we prevent and address it?

Bringing science to the practice of psychiatry has been the personal goal of Sheldon H. Preskorn, MD—the Educator of the Year.

How can psychiatrists improve substance use treatment for Black and pediatric patients?

The pandemic caused the shut down of schools and resulted in virtual learning for most of the world's children and adolescents. How did they fare?

Should we apologize to mothers for the blame psychiatry put on them?

Psychiatric Times' Editor in Chief shared some insights and data on the psychiatric impacts of COVID-19, and what we might expect in the future.

We know what you knead...

Rates of law enforcement suicide have increased over the past 5 years. How can this problem be prevented?

When we reflect on our commonalities, we get closer to working together to make the world a better place.

The US Food and Drug Administration approves first of its kind medication for migraine prevention.

Modifications to the Clozapine Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy go into effect November 15, 2021. Are you up to date?

A man tried to kill a president. Should he be released or is he still a threat?

Is the solution to health care professional burnout in our phones?

Caplyta shows promise as a monotherapy for patients with bipolar I or bipolar II disorder experiencing a major depressive episode

Each Native American tribe has a specific history, traditions, customs, and culture, and knowing something of these will help build the physician-patient relationship.

Our Afghan allies need help.

Different flowers need different levels of light, water, and shade. What would it mean to treat patients with a similar amount of care?

In order to face the rapidly changing, increasingly complex, and globally connected world, we need to focus on the importance of early brain and child development.

Is neurodivergence to be cured or is it a healthy part of our social ecology?

The Chief Medical Officer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention sat down to talk with Psychiatric Times about a number of important topics in suicide.

The National Mall is currently filled with over 660,000 white flags memorializing those lost to COVID-19.

Women experience depression at rates twice that of men. But Black women are only half as likely to seek care as White women. Here's what you can do to help this population.

According to German researchers, YouTube and other online platforms could induce a “mass social media-induced illness.”