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Poll: On the Realities of Legalizing Marijuana
What are your thought about navigating these uncharted waters?
Mini Quiz: Hoarding Disorder in the Elderly
When hoarding disorder is suspected, it is important to assess for other psychiatric disorders that may affect the presentation and treatment of symptoms. Find out more in this quiz.
Poll: Prescribing Cannabis
What are your thoughts about prescribing medical marijuana/cannabis to treat psychiatric disorders?
Professional Opinion: Cannabis
What are your feelings about the utility of cannabis in psychiatric practice?
Discussions With Patients: Medical Marijuana
As our knowledge about herbal cannabis, the endocannabinoid system, and cannabinoid pharmacology expands, should psychiatrists discuss these issues with their patients?
Earning Power: A Deep Dive Into Physician Salaries
A report of physician wages across a series of measures over the past year.
What Is the Correct Diagnostic Formulation In Neuropsychiatric Practice?
What is the role of psychological and neuropsychological assessment on a patient’s neuropsychiatric status?
Year in Review: 2016 Special Reports
This year, we presented new and distinct reports that covered a range of clinical challenges in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
Psychiatry Countdown to the Election
What do you have to say about the Presidential election? Here are the latest offerings from your colleagues about this historic election.
17 Books Your Colleagues Are Reading
"Everyday experiences made sacramental through magical language, depth of feeling, and wells of knowledge"–one of your peers used this description for a book he found inspiring. Can you think of more?
A 5-Question Quiz on MDD: Round 2
When should ECT be first-line treatment? What’s the minimum duration of antidepressant therapy? Answer these questions and more.
Mini Quiz: Suicide Risk in Veterans
After leaving active duty, when are veterans at greatest for suicide?
Attention: Future Leaders in Psychiatry!
We invite you to join our Early Career Advisory Board and share your insights about psychiatry, your interests, ideas, and goals.
Psychiatric Times’ Writing Contest!
We are seeking your real-life story that can move, teach, and inspire other psychiatrists.
Mini Quiz: Is Religion Hazardous to Mental Health?
Research tells us that religious understanding ("religiosity") on the part of the clinician impacts mental health. For better or worse, how does it impact mental health?
Mini Quiz: Dementia
What is the most common problem in individuals with dementia?
Mini Quiz: Cultural Assessment
What is the latest evidenced-based tool for cultural assessment that is included in DSM-5?
May Quiz: Geriatric Psychiatry Question 3
What are some clues that help distinguish delirium from dementia?
May Quiz: Geriatric Psychiatry
A test on post-stroke apathy versus post-stroke depression.
May Quiz: Geriatric Psychiatry Question 2
What is the potential role of rTMS in treating neuropsychiatric symptoms of neurological disease?
Check Your Bipolar Acumen
Lithium, neuroimaging, and medical comorbidities in bipolar disorder: here's a 3 question mini-quiz from the very recent literature.
Monthly Roundup: Top 6 Psychiatry Features in April
Editors' choices of noteworthy psychiatry-related news, blogs, CMEs, research studies, cases, and videos from around the Web.
Mini Quiz: DSM-5 and Disability Assessment
The WHO Disability Assessment Schedule, Version 2 is included in Section III of DSM-5. What is the WHODAS 2.0 used to assess?
Mini Quiz: Metabolic Monitoring in Serious Mental Illness
Mini Quiz: Light Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder
The human condition is such that all of us may be vulnerable to seasonal affective disorder. If placed in an environment sufficiently deprived of light we would all develop a reversible syndrome of major depression.
Monthly Roundup: Top 6 Psychiatry Articles in February
Editors' choices of noteworthy psychiatry blogs, CMEs, research studies, cases, and books from around the Web.
5 Things to Know About Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are often complicated by devastating medical problems and may result in death. Although studies suggest a multifactorial cause for the disorder, treatment is a still challenge.
Rorschach and a Case of Countertransference
Contemporary experiences in the therapist’s life that mirror what is going on in the patient’s life may also trigger intense countertransference feelings. Read the case and weigh in on the image.
Mini Quiz: Childhood Depression
What therapy is considered the "gold standard” in treating childhood and adolescent depression? Find out in this quiz,
Mini Quiz: Antipsychotic Metabolic Effects
Metabolic syndrome may be a particularly important marker of antipsychotic metabolic effects.