How have pharmaceutical treatments for psychiatric conditions changed in 40 years?

In mice models, opioid delta-receptor agonists showed promise in helping to relieve abdominal pain and regulate bowel movements. Is targeting the brain the best path forward for IBS treatment?

We need more psychiatric upstanders...

Is our unlimited access to mass media causing more mental health issues?

A warm welcome to Wilsa M.S. Charles Malveaux, MD, MA, FAPA, as the Psychiatric Times Sports Psychiatry Section Editor.

Explore the theme of mortality and the fleeting nature of time in a poem inspired by Stoic philosophy and personal reflection.

Check out these updates on research including major depressive disorder (MDD).

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A recent phase 2b trial of GH001 showed promising results for treatment-resistant depression, demonstrating rapid and sustained effects with a favorable safety profile.

How have politics influenced psychiatric clinicians over the past 40 years?

What patients are at risk when taking SSRIs?

Olympians are excellent examples of how we can embody resilience, reflecting on our own growth.

Do you want to be featured in a future Special Report? Check out our February theme!

How are Dr Moffic’s social psychiatric resolutions doing? Let’s check in.

Yale School of Medicine and VA Connecticut Healthcare System researchers compared social determinants of health in relation to the risk of suicide, a major global public health issue and one of the leading causes of death in the United States.

Check out the pipeline updates from January!

Here are highlights from this week in Psychiatric Times, including FDA news and a look back at Psychiatric Times through the years.

Meditation using immersive virtual reality devices can help alleviate symptoms of major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.

Celebrate Psychiatric Times’ 40th anniversary with a look back at some of our previous covers.

How does one clinician use art to process emotions, foster resilience, bridge the space between self-states?

"No matter, Hattie: It’s a long, beautiful walk into that flower-smothered standing ovation, so go on and make them wait."

Psychiatry may often encounter suicide and homicide, but what is its relationship with ecocide and genocide?

Melanie Barrett, MD; Anita Clayton, MD, and Carmen Kosicek, MSN, PMHNP-BC, discuss how postpartum depression treatments are evolving beyond traditional antidepressants to include rapid-acting options like brexanolone and zuranolone, along with enhanced screening and support programs for new mothers.

Patients are now being recruited for a study to compare the effectiveness of IV ketamine and esketamine nasal spray (otherwise known as Spravato) for people who suffer from treatment-resistant depression.

Check out these insights from clinicians at Real Psychiatry!