Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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  Top Paper of the Year: Second Generation Antipsychotics and Schizophrenia

  Second generation antipsychotics are now commonly prescribed worldwide for patients with schizophrenia. The agents in this class are known to have varying effects on the corrected QT interval, but the relative magnitude and risk posed by each agent has not been well studied… Read More

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  The Most Important Psychiatrist of our Time

  December 17, 2010 was a special day in the history of psychiatric diagnosis. Bob Spitzer retired after a remarkable 52 year career. The event was celebrated in a warm and wonderful conference held in his honor at Columbia University-- where Bob has worked for the past 52 years. Dozens of Bob's colleagues and students gave speeches describing his powerful influence on our field and his personal impact on our lives. … Read More

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  Psychiatry and Chronic Pain: Integration and Coordination With Primary Care

  Although acute pain typically resolves on its own with little need for intervention, for some persons pain persists past the point where it is considered an adaptive reaction to injury. Pain that persists for longer than 3 months, that accompanies a disease process, or that is associated with a bodily injury that has not resolved over time may be referred to as chronic pain.… Read More

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  Antidepressants in Bipolar Depression: A New Meta-Analysis for an Old Controversy

  Critics have noted that meta-analysis, when misused, resembles statistical alchemy, taking the dross of individually negative studies to produce the gold of a positive pooled result. This happened with an influential 2004 publication on antidepressants in acute bipolar depression, and it is being slightly rectified with a recently published update of that study… Read More