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Here: an expert describes the steps involved in a thorough, thoughtful capacity evaluation.

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.

There are many rapidly effective treatments for mania in bipolar disorder. However, there are relatively few options for bipolar depression, and none that are rapidly effective—even though bipolar depression constitutes between 20% to 50% of all depressive disorders. Here, Dr Michael Thase discusses the first, second, and third lines of treatment for bipolar depression.

What is sleep normally and what are the primary factors that regulate sleep? Understanding that the primary factors that regulate the sleep wake cycle are homeostatic and circadian will help clinicians assess sleep problems in patients. In this podcast, Dr David Neubauer discusses effective insomnia management.

Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa—or a combination of the two—share body image distortions and are associated with a great deal of other comorbid symptoms. Dr Walter Kaye offers a preview of his presentation, Advances in Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa, at PsychCongress.

By the year 2050, it is estimated that the number of people with Alzheimer disease and other forms of dementia will explode to 36 million in the US and over 160 million worldwide, over 3 times the current rate. Here to discuss his presentation at PsychCongress is Dr Anton P. Porsteinsson.

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