How can agitation mimic various psychiatric illnesses?

Psychedelics: we first must enlarge our knowledge of how these work, what clinical conditions should be targeted, and how different psychedelics compare to each other.

If a debate is only about who wins and who loses, about half of the country will seem to have won and half seem to have lost.

A new study of adult emergency department admissions found that individuals taking high doses of amphetamine—like Adderall—have a 5-fold increased risk for developing psychosis or mania.

Today is the 23rd anniversary of 9/11.

The FDA instead issued a CRL for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD, requesting an additional phase 3 trial to examine safety and efficacy. Other psychedelic compounds are proceeding with trials for psychiatric conditions. Learn more here.

Learn more about the latest research related to 9/11 trauma and other psychiatric comorbidities.

When psychiatrists fully embrace psychopharmacological interventions as integral components of addiction treatment, patients can begin a journey toward sustainable recovery.

The significance of numbers…

"Back home, we glimpse our autumn faces in the hallway mirror."

Neurosyphilis may occur during any stage of syphilis. Learn more about this diagnosis via case study example here.

Antidepressants posed "negligible" risk of inducing mania in bipolar depression, in a target trial emulation with a larger cohort than in RCTs that have assessed this effect.

Racism is not usually considered a psychotic symptom and therefore it is not often considered in the diagnosis of schizophrenia.

How can you best ethically treat patients?

Ethics as first therapy.

Will this help my sleep and mood? Researchers investigated the effects of noninvasive neurostimulation on sleep quality and depressive symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder in a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

"That’s when I started dreaming I could be a doctor someday, that I could get away, prescribe myself a new life."

Is there a unique, underrecognized psychological factor in the current dissemination of hate?

What is the best treatment course for prolonged grief disorder?

DaylightRx becomes the very first FDA-cleared digital treatment for generalized anxiety disorder.

MJH Life Sciences recently celebrated their 25th anniversary!

Abbott has initiated the TRANSCEND study to evaluate the use of deep brain stimulation to manage treatment-resistant depression.

What is the impact of current political events on the public's mental health?

A psychiatrist weighs in on the breaking news in Georgia, where there is yet another school shooting.