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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.

In this podcast, Dr Stuart Gitlow defines criteria for Social Security psychiatric disability.

Not surprisingly, children often “clam up” during doctor visits. Their reluctance may be no cause for concern—or it could indicate an underlying issue. In this podcast, Dr Doris Greenberg describes real-life scenarios that clinicians may face in their practices and discusses some of the reasons for a child's reluctance to talk.

Listen to the next podcast by Richard Berlin, MD.

One of the special aspects of practicing in a small community is seeing patients living their lives outside of the office. More on one psychiatrist's experience in this poetry reading.

As a consultation liaison psychiatrist, one of his assignments was to work on a renal dialysis unit to determine whether or not a patient was competent to opt out of treatment. Listen to his experience expressed in this poem.