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Research Analyzes Caffeine Intake and Levels in Smokers With Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia
Caffeine use is higher in smokers and in adults with serious mental illness. How does this impact patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia?
Let Us Be a Courageous Tower of Voices
These challenges need our courage and unity…
6 Months of Continuing Medical Education
Catch up on the latest CMEs in Psychiatric Times.
The Week in Review: March 6-10
From Alzheimer disease treatments to the psychiatric implications of conspiracy theories, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.
Psychiatry for Primary Care: An Update on Hoarding Disorder
How can we effectively identify hoarding disorder, the various treatment options, and the research that informs these interventions?
Psychiatry for Primary Care: An Update in Behavioral Medicine
How can we help primary care providers effectively manage mental health conditions in primary care settings?
Empowering Trauma Survivors
A psychiatrist discusses how he helps individuals around the world heal from invisible wounds.
Neuromodulation Device for Depression Granted Breakthrough Device Designation
Transcranial direct current stimulation for depression.
Mental Health and the Global Race to Resilience
There is no shortage of evidence for the elevated and sustained psychological trauma, mental illness, distress, and anxiety about climate change.
At the 3rd Anniversary of the COVID Pandemic, Psychiatry Is Needed More Than Ever
It’s been 3 years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic…
What Do You Enjoy Outside of Your Practice?
Share your favorite hobbies and activities outside of work in our After Hours video series.
The Clock-Drawing Test
A look at one of the most informative yet easy-to-administer tests for assessing brain dysfunction.
Lithium and Medical Comorbidity
Researchers performed a nationwide register-based cohort study of patients treated with lithium in Finland.
Lithium: A Narrative Overview and Future Frontiers
Lithium: what’s its history and where do we still need more information?
“I’m Not Sick!”: Ethical Dilemmas With Treatment Over Objection
How can you provide the best care when presented with ethical and legal issues?
Tributes for International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month
Celebrate the women in your life!
Practice Makes Perfect
“The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.”
Supporting Those Who Support Us
Here’s how providing tailored mental health support for health care professionals can help alleviate burnout and other mental health challenges within health care.
How Do You Prevent Burnout?
Share your go-to methods for maintaining your mental health in our Wellbeing Checkup video series.
Raising the False Flag of Conspiracy: What Are the Psychiatric Implications?
About half of the US population believes in at least 1 conspiracy theory. An expert explores the political, sociological, and psychological factors of the false flag concept.
Objective Sleep Markers and Suicidal Behaviors
Sleep and suicide: researchers performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of objective sleep markers of suicidal behaviors in patients with psychiatric disorders.
Autonomy Alone Does Not Validate Physician Assisted Suicide
However we may define autonomy, it is but one factor in judging the ethics of assisted suicide.
Is the Prophecy Coming True? Psychiatrists as Coaches During the Pandemic
As more and more psychiatrists turn to coaching, what’s behind this supportive profession?
Alzheimer Disease: Are the Treatments Worse Than the Illness?
What are the available and upcoming AD treatments and how can you utilize them to best serve your patients?
The Truth Is on Trial in Society, Psychiatry, and Religion
Should we tell the truth?
Mental Health Services in California
The Week in Review: February 27-March 3
From the normalization of burnout to the identification of sleep-wake disturbances post-TBI, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.
Eating Disorders & Neuromodulation: Treating Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia
How can neuromodulatory treatments be used in patients with eating disorders?
From Pandora’s Box to the Perception Box in the Human Quest for Mental Wellness
Should we open this box…?
Positive Top-Line Results Reported for Fed/Fast Study of Novel ADHD Treatment
Results show that the novel formulation of dexmethylphenidate can be taken either with or without food.