Videos

Take the time to focus inward...

Timothy W. Fong, MD, touches on our current understanding about cannabis use for psychiatric disorders.

The last year has seen an unprecedented shift in the medical landscape, and mental health care is no exception. Experts look at the evidence and risks of digital tools, apps, telehealth, and other technologies for the treatment of serious mental illness.

"My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams..."

Obsessive-compulsive disorder and related conditions do not always respond to first-line treatments. Fortunately, new options are on the horizon.

The pandemic has made caring for geriatric patients more difficult, but a panel at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting discusses the latest best practices.

The president of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry (AAEP) gives a preview of his APA conference presentation.

Bystanders who view traumatic events tend not to react. This woman did.

There is 1 suicide every 11 minutes... how can crisis response systems help?

A mother’s quest to understand her child revolutionized our understanding of autism.

Teach both the patient and the patient's family are important steps to treating a mood disorder.

Meditation is a process and practice available to all.

"My love, I am pledging to this republic, for however long we stand..."

A message flowing through the brain, across neuronal systems... where is it headed?

Keep the earth in mind.

H. Steven Moffic, MD, reflects on the guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.

Caring for patients with mood disorders is different than caring for patients with any other medical issues.

Meditation: useful, helpful, and health-promoting for both psychiatrists and patients.

“...sweetness comes as if on loan, stays just long enough to make sense of what it means to be alive, then returns to its dark source.”

A year after being hospitalized with COVID, a physician considers the pandemic’s larger meaning for American medicine—and for American society.

Wishing you all the blessings of the holy month!

As the recent waves of violence show, a conversation needs to be had on mass shootings and gun violence...

How do poetry and medicine interact and relate? One doctor shares his journey.

"... unconscious as hope that we sense around us now borne back into the earth..."

Female leadership can—and will—make a difference in the future.

Adopting to loss means having a focus on the present...

Better well-being begins with a clean space...

A bear under the snow turns over to yawn. It's been a long, hard rest.

Religion doesn't seem to be part of the conversation on these difficult times. How and why can it help?

Loss: the most common experience of all people, across all cultures...