Psychiatric Times Editors

What are your feelings about the utility of cannabis in psychiatric practice?

As our knowledge about herbal cannabis, the endocannabinoid system, and cannabinoid pharmacology expands, should psychiatrists discuss these issues with their patients?

A report of physician wages across a series of measures over the past year.

What is the role of psychological and neuropsychological assessment on a patient’s neuropsychiatric status?

This year, we presented new and distinct reports that covered a range of clinical challenges in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.

What do you have to say about the Presidential election? Here are the latest offerings from your colleagues about this historic election.

"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?

When should ECT be first-line treatment? What’s the minimum duration of antidepressant therapy? Answer these questions and more.

After leaving active duty, when are veterans at greatest for suicide?

We invite you to join our Early Career Advisory Board and share your insights about psychiatry, your interests, ideas, and goals.

We are seeking your real-life story that can move, teach, and inspire other psychiatrists.

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?

What is the most common problem in individuals with dementia?

What is the latest evidenced-based tool for cultural assessment that is included in DSM-5?

What are some clues that help distinguish delirium from dementia?

A test on post-stroke apathy versus post-stroke depression.

What is the potential role of rTMS in treating neuropsychiatric symptoms of neurological disease?

Lithium, neuroimaging, and medical comorbidities in bipolar disorder: here's a 3 question mini-quiz from the very recent literature.

Editors' choices of noteworthy psychiatry-related news, blogs, CMEs, research studies, cases, and videos from around the Web.

The WHO Disability Assessment Schedule, Version 2 is included in Section III of DSM-5. What is the WHODAS 2.0 used to assess?

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.

Editors' choices of noteworthy psychiatry blogs, CMEs, research studies, cases, and books from around the Web.

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.

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.

What therapy is considered the "gold standard” in treating childhood and adolescent depression? Find out in this quiz,

Metabolic syndrome may be a particularly important marker of antipsychotic metabolic effects.

Elderly patients represent approximately what percentage of the population with bipolar disorder? Take the quiz and learn more.

Do persons with depression and a history of early life trauma benefit more from psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy? Take the quiz and learn more.

Featuring this year in Rorschach tests at Psychiatric Times.