Psychopharmacology

How widely used is this “gold-standard” antipsychotic?

Appropriate use of benzodiazepines in patients with a substance use disorder is an important skill. Here are some important considerations.

If larger trials confirm the strong antidepressant effects observed so far, botulinum toxin may become a standard therapeutic addition to the psychiatric armamentarium.

In Get Out, director/writer Justin Peele’s provocative debut, the bodies snatched are African American (mostly robust males); the cannibals of consciousness are white residents of an affluent Baltimore suburb, where the living is easy and the politics fashionably progressive.

An overview of the DSM diagnostic system, the medicalization of normal variants of human behavior, and physician-assisted suicide.

Here's why psychiatrists and other mental health professionals need to understand the relationship between cannabis and mental disorders.

Because patients who have psychiatric illnesses typically receive less frequent medical care, psychiatrists must aim to ensure appropriate monitoring of metabolic parameters when antipsychotic medications are used.

Psychosomatic medicine psychiatrists specialize in managing psychiatric effects of medical treatments and medications.

Your patient is excited to be pregnant. She is currently on sertraline, and has been stable on this for many years. She is very insistent that she would like to stop her medication. What should you do?

How does a pituitary result in a psychiatric emergency? Read more clues to this clinical puzzle.

One of the many facets of bipolar disorder is an energy problem-including at the neuronal level.

Despite increasing awareness of the cardiovascular risks, adequate treatment of the metabolic syndrome remains a persistent challenge.

Monitoring patients for 5 key changes can help avert drug toxicity.

The authors examine legal and ethical challenges for the psychiatrist when a defendant who is incompetent to stand trial declines to take prescribed psychotropic medication.

This article summarizes the risks of untreated psychiatric illness during pregnancy as well as the risks and benefits of antidepressant use.

Functional remediation therapy addresses the cognitive problems of the nearly 50% of patients who remain impaired even when euthymic.

What is the possibility that the very illness we’re trying to improve is getting worse-with treatment?

Renewed interest and emerging systematic data have highlighted the frequency and pattern of catatonic presentations in psychiatric and medical settings, including in critical illness.

Migraine, tension-type, cluster...test your clinical acumen about headaches with these 16 questions.

Recent findings suggest metabolic abnormalities may be independent of the effects of antipsychotics.

What’s the optimal approach for patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia?

The psychiatric literature is overwhelming. So these authors have culled 25 "top" articles based on their relevance to clinical practice. Here's a quick synopsis of 8 top articles.

To understand and to feel understood is a powerful antidote to relieve human psychological suffering. Therein lies the heart of the self-medication hypothesis of addiction.

A brief overview of the many trials that have asked this weighty question.

To augment or not to augment? That is the question.

Personal enhancements (eg, cosmetic surgery) have gained societal acceptance, but cognitive enhancement poses significant ethical, philosophical, and sociopolitical issues.

The overprescription of opioid analgesics has resulted in the growing use of heroin. Right?

“Doctor, will you prescribe medical marijuana for my mother? I think it might help her agitation better than the medication you gave her last visit.”

It's not about the specifics of preliminary studies about psilocybin. It's about the validation of research using psychedelic drugs in modern psychiatry.

Are antipsychotics associated with an increased risk of breast cancer?