Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS

What is the most hopeful holiday around the world—and why is it more important this year than ever?

Beyond the COVID-19-driven shock, we must develop a resilient future in an increasingly uncertain world.

"Rooted in ancient meditative traditions, mind-body practices can offer simple and scalable tools of self-regulation that incorporate controlled paced breathing, which is therapeutic in alleviating symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain disorders."

What are the Psychiatric Times™ Editorial Board Members talking about at the 2022 APA Annual Meeting in New Orleans?

What are the current dosing guidelines for the implementation of pharmacogenetics into practice?

Remembering Lissy Jarvik, MD, PhD—a pioneer of geriatric neuropsychiatry.

Although the new drug aducanumab has grabbed all the headlines, the future of Alzheimer treatment may be just as much about public health campaigns as it is about psychopharmacology. In this episode of Psych Pearls, we find out why.

The world is facing a cognition crisis. Here’s how to face it with measurement-based cognitive care.

How can we face the current pandemic while addressing the brain health crisis?

This mindset might be the key to mental health breakthroughs.

Dr Lavretsky invites us to use the pandemic as a chance to build good habits, explore spiritual avenues, and start new routines.

A paradigm shift is needed in order to solve the unprecedented complexities and challenges associated with the current global mental health crisis.

Society’s psychological reactions to a crisis can be predicted according to disaster response frameworks, which can be used to understand what to build during the evolving COVID-19 crisis, and when those innovations will prove most vital.

This Special Report on Geriatric Psychiatry addresses a variety of clinical issues in the rapidly growing diverse population of older adults.

In this pilot study, older adults who practiced yoga did better on measures of verbal and visual memory and executive function than those in memory training classes.

Here: a look at several natural products used to improve cognitive impairment or cognitive symptoms of dementia.

The latest updates in geriatric psychiatry.

This article sheds light on the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to TRD management in adults 60 years and older.

Therapeutic techniques can enhance psychological resilience and may help patients improve their quality of life. Here's how.

The Medici effect is upon us in biomedicine, and it’s called convergence science.

Comorbid medical symptoms, polypharmacy, and cognitive decline are hallmarks of depression in the fastest growing segment of the population.

An expert talks briefly about interventions that can help bolster resilience and help older people recover quickly from adversity.

Calling all psychiatrists: we conducted a survey of your opinions about prescribing medical cannabis and invite you to view the results.

Our brains can be trained to function better as we age, and it doesn't take the Fountain of Youth to get there. In this podcast, geriatric psychiatrist Helen Lavretsky prescribes strategies to challenge our brains. She notes: "The more we challenge our brain, the more new nerve pathways and circuits we form."

Research is needed to define clinical biomarkers and genetic screens that could be used to identify early stages of dementia and to link clinical syndromes with the later development of dementia.

In this podcast, Dr Helen Lavretsky discusses the topic of appropriate diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment. It will be increasingly important to strengthen the definitions of what is “normal” to avoid the “pathologizing” of aging or of any individuals who experience temporary or continuous cognitive impairment.

The aging of the world’s populations represents one of the most remarkable success stories in medicine and of humankind, but it is also a source of various challenges.

Depression complicates medical illnesses and their management, and it increases health care use, disability, and mortality. This article focuses on the recent research data on diagnosis, etiopathogenesis, treatment, and prevention in unipolar, bipolar, psychotic, and subsyndromal depression.

More women than men are diagnosed with depression. Yet, men who are troubled by depression are also more likely to die, even when suicide is removed from the factors of consideration. Vascular depression, hyperintensities within the brain, physiological changes and late-life onset provide both insight and more questions into the nature of depression and this enigmatic paradox.