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Online environments have revolutionized the lives of young SGM individuals, but also created unforeseen issues...

What academic terminology should be used when describing sexual and gender minority patients?

Homosexuality was classified as a mental illness until 1973. We have come a long way, but there is a lot further to go...

A cease fire is welcome, but a far cry from what we want to achieve—lasting Middle East peace.

Between 2010 and 2018, the share of premiums that increased ranged from 12% to 17%. Are they continuing to rise?

Higher lithium levels are associated with a greater risk of long-term kidney harm and more frequent depressive episodes. This bipolar update reviews ways to minimize renal side effects.

Poetry allows for reflection a year after a tragedy and a travesty, and to honor a life lost.

It's a slip in more ways than one.

Healthy lungs are at risk—what can you do as a clinician to help patients quit vaping?

There is debate whether schizoaffective disorder is a separate illness or is part of the continuum of schizophrenia and mood disorder spectrum.

These 4 psychiatrists addressed some of the most complicated and important ethical challenges.

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.

Trees, the oldest among us. One wonders if they mourn the many lynchings that have taken place on their limbs. More reflections on diversity.

Cannabis is prescribed as a treatment for autism in 14 states. Is it the wonder drug patients and families have been waiting for?

Reading books and journals, charting treatment plans to help patients find an Eden of their own.

Available evidence indicates that there are a multitude of neuropsychiatric syndromes that occur after a stroke. Cognitive impairment occurs in approximately one-third of patients. These neuropsychiatric manifestations often impede the recovery of motor functioning, reduce social functioning, and decrease the overall quality of life.

In this conversation, a former APA president discusses mystical and meditative experiences, reconciling psychoanalysis and neuroscience, and tensions surrounding the medical model.

This treatment for agitation associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder is moving up the FDA ladder…

Is the COVID-19 burnout enough to make some physicians step away from medicine?

How might droughts and monsoons in India and China lead to problems in American clinics?

Because schizophrenia is associated with increased inflammation, studies on the effects of anti-inflammatory statins are warranted.

A daily serving of almonds improved depressive symptoms in diabetes, but will it work in non-diabetic depression?

Widely recognized as the prime mover behind the psychosomatic medicine movement, Helen Flanders Dunbar, MD, PhD. was a clinician, writer, and founder of the American Psychosomatic Society.

A television drama looks at eating disorders from the patient, physician, and family perspectives. What does it get right—and wrong?

At almost every turn, insurance payers, based on seemingly ignorant and unethical justifications, continue to undermine the quality of psychiatric care.

Are investors harming mental health care?

Against the backdrop of European fascism, an Italian physician pioneered a new treatment.

A preview of 3 pivotal trials suggests promising results, but there are reasons to wait before jumping in with this antipsychotic.

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.

How can we face the current pandemic while addressing the brain health crisis?