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New Drug Application for Olanzapine/Samidorphan Expanded to Include Bipolar I
The novel combination drug is designed to mitigate the weight gain associated with olanzapine.
A Decade of Psychiatry and Our Climate
A climate change and mental health pioneer goes down memory lane with the Times.
Things Are Seldom What They Seem
Doing a review of systems wasn’t “rocket science,” as they say-but it was a classic example of medical science and of why psychiatrists are physicians first.
Identification, Assessment, and Clinical Management of Tardive Dyskinesia: An Update
This CME discusses what is known about the pathology of tardive dyskinesia, the risk factors for the disorder, assessment of patients with movement disorders, and diagnosis and treatment.
You’re a Psychiatrist . . .
Words have power. These include the power to heal, especially words spoken by physicians, mental healers in particular-psychiatrists.
Psychiatric Times’ Poet Awarded International Prestige
Congratulations and kudos to Dr Richard M. Berlin, whose poem “Eye Contact” was chosen to be included in the 2019 Hippocrates Prize Anthology.
Eye Contact
A ghostly glow frames the face of a man with nothing to hide...
The Limits of Advocacy
Migrant children were being endangered, with potentially devastating effects on their mental health and development, and we requested policy changes.
Goldilocks and the Opioids
Medical professionals don’t want to prescribe too many pain killers, which may contribute to the epidemic of opioid misuse, yet they don’t want patients to needlessly suffer.
Optimizing Brain Health
Each moment of each day we make choices that can affect our brain health-our challenge is, without judgment, to increase the choices that promote a healthy brain.
Increased Protein Insolubility in Brains of Some Patients with Schizophrenia
Protein insolubility has been found to occur in a subset of patients with schizophrenia.
New Treatment Reduces Levels of Protein Linked to Huntington Disease
The first therapy to target the primary mechanism of the disease is safe and well tolerated, say study investigators.
Thomas Szasz: An Appraisal of His Legacy
A penetrating, deep, and intrepid exploration of Szasz’s oeuvre, and the indelible impact he has had on the practice of psychiatry, in this country and abroad.
Work Stress Takes a Toll on Physicians’ Health
The fallout from burnout: alcohol dependence, binge eating, sleep disorders, and general ill health.
The Psychiatric Assessment of People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Hearing loss before the development of language has a major impact on communication, identity, and social development, as well as how mental health symptoms present.
Overcoming Treatment Resistance: Can Pharmacogenetics Help?
Pharmacogenetic testing can provide helpful guidance in the choice of treatment and should be interpreted as a decision-support tool to assist in thoughtful implementation of good clinical care.
Treating Patients With Comorbid Anxiety and Diabetes Mellitus
Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent in the general population, particularly in those with medical illnesses such as diabetes.
Introduction: A Lexicon of Complex Patients in Psychiatric Practice
These thumbnail sketches of the articles in this Special Report produce an impressionistic sketch of the meaning of the word complicated in psychiatric practice.
Chatbots: What Are They and Why Care?
While conversational agent technology is growing rapidly, the various technologies (chatbots) might not yet be fully equipped to help patients with clinical needs.
Islamophobia and Psychiatry: Recognition, Prevention, and Treatment
This book focuses on Islamophobia’s multifaceted nature, its broad and specific clinical challenges, and its connections with the current political realities of a convulsed world.
The FDA on ECT: Supporting a Vital Treatment
This new FDA order now allows patients who need and want ECT, as well as practitioners who perform it, to breathe a sigh of relief.
Serial Pleasures
The pleasures of a story unfolded serially are ancient and ubiquitous.
Strategies to Facilitate a Positive Clinical Encounter
The counseling environment is regarded within clinical literature as having an effect on a patient’s sense of well-being.
Medication-Assisted Treatment on a Budget: Two You Should Know
This CME discusses the opioid-like effects of loperamide and kratom and raises awareness of potential dangers associated with use.
6 Dosing Tips for Pediatric Patients With Mood Disorders
Atypical antipsychotics play an important role in acute bipolar depression and mixed states, but one is an especially researched option for children.
Psychiatric Pharmacogenomic Testing: The Evidence Base
An impressive and ever-expanding research literature exists on the topic of pharmacogenomics. Despite this, only four genes have been vetted as clinically actionable.
Patient Interviewing 101
Always ask the name of their dog.
Ophelia
She was only 21. After "it" happened, I held a lecture on depression. I mentioned her at the end as a tribute. I longed for closure. More in this Portrait of a Psychiatrist.
Out of the Mouth of Babes: School Shooting Survivors Share Their Insights, Concerns
Despite the outpouring of support, are survivors of mass shootings getting the care they really need?
Functional Assessment for Disability Applications: Tools for the Psychiatrist
These 10 domains will help you determine if functional impairment exists, if it can be reversed, and if the patient can return to work.