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Adolescent Substance Use: Reasons for Optimism and Concern
"Although adolescent substance use is a topic that can be challenging for families and clinicians alike, data demonstrate that interventions during this time are effective for preventing, identifying, and reducing risky use."
What a Dying Woman Saw
Phase 3 Clinical Program Announced for Monotherapy Treatment for MDD
The drug has shown statistically significant, clinically meaningful reductions in symptoms of depression, anhedonia.
New Research, Treatment Issues Featured at Annual Meeting
Did you miss our APA Annual Meeting coverage?
The Challenge of Forgiveness in Mass Shootings and Elsewhere
Is forgiveness healing?
Analyzing SSRIs and Gut Microbiota in Major Depressive Disorder
What is the association between the gut microbiome and response to SSRIs in patients with depression?
Experimental Drug Slows Progression of Alzheimer Disease in Patients With Mild Impairment by 60%
Trial results underscore the importance of early diagnosis and treatment in patients with Alzheimer disease.
To Live Dangerously: A Review of Life-Enhancing Anxiety by Kirk Schneider
This book asks us to reexamine anxiety…
What the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Trial Tells Us About Psychiatry
Is hatred a mental health issue?
The Week in Review: July 10-14
From noninvasive brain stimulation techniques for catatonia to the concurrent treatment of eating disorders and PTSD, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.
Meteorologist Al Roker Reaches for the Sky to Address the Climate
Let’s reach for the sky and beat back climate change.
God Is in the Therapy Room
Divinity and psychiatry: how do they connect? One psychiatrist shares his perspective.
Determination and Imagination
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
Dementia Treatment: An Unmet Need
"There is clearly a large unmet need not only to improve our treatment of AD, but to provide treatment options for all the dementias."
Dear Younger Self: Female Physicians Share Financial Advice
Financial success requires planning and thoughtfulness. What do female physicians wish they would have done differently or better?
Inside 988 Lifeline: Conversations with a Crisis Counselor
What is it like to be a 988 counselor?
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Trial and the Gordian Knot of a Social Psychopathology
The medicalization of anti-Semitism: a possibility?
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Trial and Other Mental Illness Considerations: Take 2
Updated commentary on the developments in the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting trial.
Nourishing Calm
Here’s how offering food in psychiatric emergency rooms can soothe agitated patients and build rapport.
The Consistent Presence of the C-L Psychiatry Team
The patient’s autonomy: a guiding principle.
My Hijab, My Identity
Racism is here and happening all around us. One Muslim woman tells her story.
Trauma and Transition Trajectories: The Risk of Caenisian Reversion
How can you best address and support transgender patients, as well as prevent negative outcomes?
Treatment Over Objection: Ethical and Legal Principles
"Providers’ lack of knowledge about legal and ethical perspectives and roles regarding TOO can lead to delayed or suboptimal patient care, exposure of hospitals and providers to liability, and exacerbation of provider distress."
Treating Eating Disorders and PTSD Concurrently Leads to Long-Term Recovery
Research shows an undeniable connection between PTSD and eating disorders.
Preparing for a Job Interview: The “10 Knows”
Are you prepared for your next job interview?
Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Techniques for Catatonia
A recent study finds noninvasive brain stimulation techniques such as ECT, rTMS, and tDCS may be helpful for patients with catatonia.
Antidepressant Response: What’s DNA Got to Do With It?
Research using data from the All of Us Research Program seeks to solve the mystery of what makes medications work for some and not others.
A Year of 988: The First Step in a Long Journey
A year ago, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline switched to its new 3-digit number, 988. What's happened since then?
The Body is Keeping Score and It Is Losing
This book on trauma has shot up the best-seller list… why?
The Week in Review: July 3-7
From the FDA traditional approval of Leqembi to an examination of how we can improve mental health care for women of color, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.
