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Thinking about suicidal behavior as a diagnosable problem will help bridge the gap in how psychiatrists think about suicidality and how it is perceived by patients and their families. Dr Maria Oquendo elaborates in this video.

Certain aspects of depression result from maladaptive stress-induced changes in reward circuits of the brain. Dr Eric Nestler discusses in this video.

Dr Hochang Lee discusses the latest research in the Neuropsychiatric Outcomes After Heart Surgery study and post-coronary artery bypass graft depression.

Mental illness is a risk factor for HIV infection. It brings a number of behavioral correlates that put patients at risk for getting infected. Here, Dr Glenn Treisman provides an overview of the treatment of psychiatric disorders in patients with HIV.

PTSD is a psychiatric illness resulting from a physical or psychological trauma that is sometimes related to warfare, but of course occurs in the case of civilian trauma as well. However, wars have been a propitious time for studying PTSD.

What are the latest findings on acute and chronic effects of alcohol on the human brain? Here to discuss the latest research is psychiatrist and neuroscientist Nora D. Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Advances in basic molecular research of alcoholism await translation into important new clinical insights. Here to shed some light in this area is John Matochik, PhD, Program Director in the Division of Neuroscience and Behavior at NIAAA.

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, incarcerated psychiatric patients at Bellevue Hospital had to be evacuated, without the help of elevators, electronic or phone communication, or even running water. Here, Director of Forensic Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center, Elizabeth Ford, MD, gives a first-hand account.

"I place a stethoscope in my ears and listen to the heart when I’ve run out of things to say. . . ."

"A hundred people dancing so hard they’ve thrown off their shoes . . ." Listen to Richard Berlin, MD, recite the poem, "Playing in the Band."