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Intensive caring offers a way of addressing suffering designed to better meet the needs of patients and families.

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder: a condition that is often underestimated and mistaken for typical premenstrual symptoms or mood swings.

Assisted outpatient treatment is not intended to replace comprehensive, easy-to-access, voluntary treatment. Here's why we need it, according to one expert.

The PDUFA date for KarXT for schizophrenia is September 26, 2024. Here’s what one expert thinks of this potential treatment.

Far less attention is paid by mental health clinicians to aspects of death and dying. This Psychiatric Times Death and Dying Special Report helps fill some of that gap.

A psychiatrist ponders: What happens when your career, which usually brings you joy and gratitude, paradoxically becomes a source of great stress?

The Boomerang Effect: when an individual’s attempt to persuade someone else has the opposite effect, coming back to haunt the messenger, like a boomerang thrown correctly comes back toward the thrower.

The emergence of psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners as key players in mental health care delivery has become increasingly apparent.

"...the heart-shaped ficus leaves dropping like sad notes from a Spanish song..."

Should ketamine be used at all when FDA-approved Spravato is available and insurance will pay for it?

We cannot learn from history unless we talk about it…

"Poetry arrived in search of me."

The season of the cat…

How can agitation mimic various psychiatric illnesses?

Psychedelics: we first must enlarge our knowledge of how these work, what clinical conditions should be targeted, and how different psychedelics compare to each other.

If a debate is only about who wins and who loses, about half of the country will seem to have won and half seem to have lost.

A new study of adult emergency department admissions found that individuals taking high doses of amphetamine—like Adderall—have a 5-fold increased risk for developing psychosis or mania.

Today is the 23rd anniversary of 9/11.

The FDA instead issued a CRL for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD, requesting an additional phase 3 trial to examine safety and efficacy. Other psychedelic compounds are proceeding with trials for psychiatric conditions. Learn more here.

Learn more about the latest research related to 9/11 trauma and other psychiatric comorbidities.

When psychiatrists fully embrace psychopharmacological interventions as integral components of addiction treatment, patients can begin a journey toward sustainable recovery.

The significance of numbers…

"Back home, we glimpse our autumn faces in the hallway mirror."

Neurosyphilis may occur during any stage of syphilis. Learn more about this diagnosis via case study example here.

Antidepressants posed "negligible" risk of inducing mania in bipolar depression, in a target trial emulation with a larger cohort than in RCTs that have assessed this effect.

Racism is not usually considered a psychotic symptom and therefore it is not often considered in the diagnosis of schizophrenia.

How can you best ethically treat patients?

Ethics as first therapy.

Will this help my sleep and mood? Researchers investigated the effects of noninvasive neurostimulation on sleep quality and depressive symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder in a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.