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Resolution #4: Improving the Treatment of Trauma in Israel, Gaza, and Elsewhere
What can we learn from war trauma?
A Department of Psychiatry’s Embrace of Philosophy: From Amnesia at the Margins Toward Parrhesia at the Center
Welcome to the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and psychiatry.
Landmark Study Highlights Efficacy of MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD
In a first of its kind study, MDMA-assisted therapy successfully supported patients with PTSD.
Processes and Interventions That Drive Improvement in PTSD
Here are 5 processes to provide focus and empowerment for patients with PTSD.
What is Dia-gnosis in Psychiatry?
Knowing the difference between one condition and another is critical, even when the precise diagnosis is unclear.
Addressing Substance Use Disorders in Physicians to Sustain Wellness
Nurturing Resilience in the Wounded Healer
The challenge for clinicians lies in balancing the profound connection to patients’ suffering with the need to maintain personal resilience.
Resolution #3: Read Einstein and Freud on War
What did Einstein and Freud have to say about war, and how does it apply today?
Bipartisan Mental Illness Plan
The abysmal conditions in state mental hospitals in the 1940s were caused by 3 factors, none of which are now true. Let’s explore.
Travel Builds Your Brain Capital
Travel can boost a clinician’s brain health, cultural intelligence, and creativity.
Golden Gates: A Resolution for Psychological and Physical Suicide Safety Nets
Here's something we can do physically to prevent suicide.
ADHD Rx Shortage: Insights and Tips From an Expert
The ADHD Rx shortage is impacting children and their families. Here, a clinician shares how she supports her patients.
The Week in Review: January 1-5
From a groundbreaking new launch for PTSD in the United States to connections between antidepressant treatment and metabolic syndrome, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.
Changing the Way Schizophrenia Is Treated
“If approved, KarXT would represent a new mechanism of action to treat schizophrenia, which would be the first new mechanism potentially in decades.”
PTSD Research Roundup: January 5, 2024
What is new in research on posttraumatic stress disorder?
Presenting Our January Theme: Clinician Wellness
Write to us now to be part of our series focused on clinician wellness this month.
2024 New Year Resolution #1: Don’t Forget About COVID-19 and the Invasion of Our Capitol
With the upcoming election and the rising risk of COVID, here’s how we can avoid physical and psychological trauma.
Oral Weekly Risperidone for Schizophrenia: Positive Phase 3 Study Data
New positive pivotal phase 3 study data released on oral weekly risperidone for schizophrenia.
Phase 3 Topline Results Support Sustained Efficacy, Tolerability of Treatment for Schizophrenia, Bipolar I Disorder
The data assess the extended efficacy of the treatment for up to 4 years.
First FDA-Approved Self-Neuromodulation Device for PTSD Officially Launches in the US
The device is now available at 2 US clinics, with training and installation currently underway at several other locations.
Prescription Digital Therapeutic for Schizophrenia Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation
The device is currently under clinical trial investigation as an adjunct treatment to standard of care therapy for experiential negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
Evenamide: New Results Show 70% of Patients Saw Reduction in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia Severity
New study results show evenamide as an add-on to antipsychotics for treatment-resistant schizophrenia significantly reduced disease severity.
Together We Will Win is My 2024 New Year Prophecy: What is Yours?
"Together we will win..."
Anticipatory Growth
A psychiatrist reflects on a new year and anticipatory growth.
Response to Antidepressant Treatment and Risk of Later Metabolic Syndrome
Will this medication make me gain weight? Researchers analyzed response to antidepressant treatment as a predictor of incident metabolic syndrome in a cohort of patients with depression.
In Praise of Curiosity
Here’s to being curious in 2024!
Psychiatry in the News: December 2023
Here are some updates from the world of psychiatry throughout the month of December.
Seasonal Affective Disorder Research Roundup: December 29, 2023
What is new in research on seasonal affective disorder?
Looking to the Future of Mood Disorders Treatment
Psychiatric Times chats with new Mood Disorders Section Editor Gus Alva, MD, about his new role, his interest in mood disorders, and his love of psychiatry.
From the Pages of Psychiatric Times: December 2023
The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the December 2023 issue of Psychiatric Times.