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Research shows that stress hormones spike with the rise in temperatures.

Outpatient civil commitment in Maryland will go into effect in July 2025. Learn more here.

Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders affect 1 in 5 of perinatal individuals who are pregnant or up to 1 year postpartum. Over the past 2 decades, the US has seen an alarming rise in these disorders.

Careful consideration of the complex interplay between cultural identities, associations with beauty, and body-focused repetitive behaviors, may improve case conceptualization and treatment outcomes.

How much do we learn from nonverbal cues, like Sherlock Holmes did?

Tell us more about how you use social media as a mental health clinician!

"The year I owned a motorcycle and split the air in southern Spain, and could smell the oranges in the orange groves as I passed them outside of Seville, I understood I'd been riding too long in cars..."

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Tell us more about how you use social media as a mental health clinician!

Is laughter in jeopardy online?

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In the movie, "Oppenheimer," we see a glimpse of atomic fallout and the consequences of war. How does this apply to today's global events?

Art imitates life imitates art.

After months of preparation, one psychiatrist starts using KAP in her practice.

Check out these exciting updates from the recent RISE study on TV-46000, a subcutaneous long-acting injectable antipsychotic formulation of risperidone.

How does isolation for a typhoon compare with COVID-19 isolation?

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Erzofri, a paliperidone palmitate extended-release injectable suspension for the treatment of adults with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.

Upcoming NCCHC conferences provide networking and educational opportunities for psychiatric clinicians working in the correctional setting.

Here’s why the euthanasia of animals as an argument for physician-assisted suicide is invalid…

What role do social psychopathologies play in the upcoming election?

"My own dear love, he is all my world,—And I wish I’d never met him."

It's never appropriate for people in power to use the term "crazy."

Explore a poem about death, grief, and the healing powers of the humanities.

Here's what H. Steven Moffic, MD, has learned in retirement...

Guidelines from the World Health Organization's Mental Health Gap Action Program support nonspecialist health workers providing evidence-based treatments in underresourced regions.

Hopes and failures of community psychiatry.

This book presents and analyzes the self-reports of psychopaths. The author shares more on why you need to read it.

A mainstream psychiatrist finds herself exploring a treatment that is off the radar for most.