SPOTLIGHT -
The Week in Review: November 13-17
From sleep disturbances in ADHD to psychotherapy for treatment-resistant depression, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.
Psychedelics Research Roundup: November 17, 2023
What is new in research on psychedelics?
Psychotherapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression Is Overlooked, Underused
"Evidence indicates that psychotherapy may yield greater durability of treatment gains than pharmacotherapy."
Are We All Subject to Some Psychological Hostage-Taking?
What are some examples of psychological hostage-taking?
Considerations for Transgender Patients
It is Transgender Awareness Week. Here’s what you need to know as a clinician.
The Importance of Refining the Depression Diagnosis
In this Special Report, let's re-evalute depression.
Changing the Way Climate Change Psychiatry Is Researched: A Medical Student Perspective
A recent study serves as a model for future studies and lists several implications for the future of climate change psychiatric research.
In Memoriam: For the Dead and the Living, A Delayed Eulogy for Eyad El-Sarraj, MD
Let us honor Eyad El-Sarraj, MD's vision together.
Your Medicare Patients Are Struggling
About 1 in 6 of Medicare patients report trouble paying Medicare bills and debt.
How JFK Killed My Father
"It was a time when men wore fedoras banded on the crown, each band with a feather tucked into a bow, and inside, sweat bands carved from calf skins with their sweet smell of animal and earth."
Examining Sex-Specific Associations Between Schizophrenia and Cannabis Use Disorder
Young men appear to be particularly susceptible to the effects of cannabis on schizophrenia.
Lifting the “Brain Fog” of Long COVID With TMS
TMS for the treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with long COVID appeared to improve their cognitive function and symptoms of depression.
Beyond the Neurotransmitter: We Were Trained to See the Forest for the Trees
Psychopharmacology, while an essential tool, is only one of those tools.
We Answer the Call for a Joint Jewish and Muslim Psychiatrist Statement
Respect is the single most important factor that helps to sustain long term relationships.
Objectively Measured Sleep in ADHD
What is the impact of ADHD on sleep? Researchers performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of objectively measured sleep in children and adolescents with ADHD.
A Call for a Psychiatrist Colleague for a Joint Healing Statement
Can psychiatry and psychiatrists come together for a joint healing statement?
The Week in Review: November 6-10
From neurological abnormalities in first-episode psychosis to psychiatric boarding in emergency departments, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.
Dementia Research Roundup: November 10, 2023
What is new in research on dementia?
Psychotherapy: Lies Cost Lives
When the media repeatedly portrays such tepid ambivalence about psychotherapy, millions of suffering individuals get a vague and misleading impression of this treatment.
We Cannot Abandon Youth to Climate Anxiety
Children have real worries driven by real threats when it comes to climate change.
We Can All Serve: The Principles of Psychiatric Ethics as Applied to War
How can psychiatrists apply current ethical principles to war?
Prevalence of Neuroradiological Abnormalities in First-Episode Psychosis
To image or not to image? Researchers performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of neuroradiological abnormalities in first-episode psychosis.
Gabapentinoids: A Deeper Look
"During the past 5 years has gabapentin retained its position as one of the top 10 drugs prescribed in the United States."
Climate Change: No Personal Beliefs Should Increase Children’s Anxiety
One reader believes psychiatrists and mental health clinicians should approach climate change with skepticism.
Voting for Mental Health
Explore the mental health effects of voting.
Restorative Justice vs Hate Speech
How can we prevent retraumatization of vulnerable individuals and enable them to seek redress?
Tackling Treatment-Resistant Depression
As many as 30% of your patients will experience treatment-resistant depression...
Revisiting the Ethics of Landmark Psychological Experiments in American Melancholy: Poems
“Oates’ poems force us to reflect on the ethics of experimentation and to ask if the proverbial ends justify the means.”
Involuntary Hospitalization of Minors: An Emergency Medicine Perspective
"In regard to psychiatric hospitalizations, the principles of ethics are imperative in determining how to proceed in each case."
Depressed, Suicidal, and Likely Less Able to Consent to Treatment
Suicidal individuals with depression likely have diminished capacity to provide informed consent for treatment as well as low perceived need for help.
