Authors


Rachel Goud, BScH

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Rehabilitation Through Stimulation: Exploring Noninvasive Brain Stimulation for Substance Use Disorders

In this CME article, review the current treatment modalities for noninvasive brain stimulation in the treatment of substance use disorders, and to explore the potential for further expansion of indications.


Ethan Lazarus, MD, FOMA

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Inclusivity: Ensuring Patients Who Are Plus-Size Feel Welcome

A welcoming environment that fosters inclusivity is the first step in establishing a good therapeutic relationship.


Ravi N. Shah, MD, MBA

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Technology-Enabled Care: The Future of Our Field

What will psychiatric practice look like in the year 2030?


Bethany Hughes, MD

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Insights From the 2022 AAPL Annual Meeting

The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law hosted its first in-person meeting in October 2022. Check out these highlights.


Laura Jana, MD

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Let’s Build Brains Better! Brain Science-Inspired Policies for the Future

In order to face the rapidly changing, increasingly complex, and globally connected world, we need to focus on the importance of early brain and child development.


Jaya Jaya Myra

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Holiday Foods to Boost Willpower

What can you put on your plate this holiday season to keep your body and mind healthy?



Susan Hatters-Friedman, MD, DFAPA

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Fictional Portrayals of Mental Illness: Impact on Stigma

Check out this session at the APA 2023 Annual Meeting in San Francisco!


Andrew Troy Hodge, MD

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Exploring Diagnostic Strategies in the Assessment of Mixed Affective States

In this CME article, examine how current DSM nosology defines the proper method of assessing a mixed-episode patient and which diagnostic labels to give them based on their presenting symptomatology.


Jeffrey L. Cummings, MD, ScD

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Advancing Brain Capital: Achievements, Lessons, and Next Steps

A transdisciplinary team summarizes key points and reflections after 18 months of activity.


Robert M. Lundin, BSc, MBBCh

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Telling Humanity’s Brain Story: Insights From Brain Capital

Which innovations can improve measurement, technology, investment, and public policy surrounding brain health?


Stephanie Galaitsi, MSEE

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Resilience and Healthy Aging

What does 'resilience' include for older adults?


Lindsey Pinto, LSW, MSW

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Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy: A Game Changer for Justice-Involved Individuals

"CT-R emphasizes the importance of hope while taking it a step further, turning hope into meaningful action and internalizing what success says about a person’s identity, strength, and ability to navigate future challenges."


Aaron Mack, MD

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Recognizing the Contributions and the Struggles of Black Psychiatrists

“It is of the utmost importance to provide culturally competent forensic psychiatric services that are better suited to the needs of the African American community.”


Justin S. Tauscher, PhD

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Integrating Digital Therapeutics Into Care of Serious Mental Illness

How can digital therapeutics more readily be brought into the hands of patients with serious mental illnesses?


Carmen Kosicek, MSN, PMHNP-BC

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Closing Thoughts on the Treatment of MDD

Roger S. McIntyre, MD, FRCPC, and Carmen Kosicek, MSN, PMHNP-BC, discuss the future of MDD treatment and share closing thoughts.


Douglas W. Heinrichs, MD

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Forbidding Medical Aid in Dying Requires Justification

Ethical dilemmas are sufficiently unique and complex that exceptionless rules or precise algorithms are seldom helpful.


Amit Etkin, MD, PhD

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Mapping the Mind

How can we enhance our understanding of the human brain?


Ekta Patel, PhD

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Driving Advances in Drug Discovery for Mental Health Conditions

Understanding and addressing the unmet therapeutic needs of individuals living with mental health conditions.


Jun Park

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Dietary Interventions for ADHD: Emerging Research and Considerations

What is the connection between ADHD diagnosis and a Western dietary pattern?


Warren Y.K. Ng, MD, MPH

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The Urgent Need to Address Youth Mental Health

In this 2-part Special Report, we highlight the urgency of addressing child and adolescent mental health.


Rosemary Kennedy, PhD

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The Role of Technology in Addressing Isolation of Older Adults

Seniors living independently have suffered isolation during the pandemic. What role can technology play in solving this?


Sarah J. Getz, PhD

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Vulnerability to Financial Scamming: Victim and Family Protection

With the growing elderly population and the prevalence of cognitive impairment, how can we protect older adults from financial scams?


Victor Ajluni, MD

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Cannabis and Schizophrenia: Implications in the Legalization Era

A look at the association between cannabis use and schizophrenia, as well as the need for comprehensive public health policies and education.


Marie Anne Gebara, MD

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Augmentation Strategies for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Given that two-thirds of patients treated for a major depressive episode will fail to achieve remission of symptoms after 2 or more treatment trials of first-line antidepressants, the probability of remission will further decrease with subsequent medication trials. Treatment strategies for patients with TRD include augmentation, where a medication is added to a current antidepressant versus switching to a different antidepressant.


Alan Schwartz, MD

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Psychiatrists Call for End to Cruel and Harmful Immigration Policy

The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (America’s mental health think tank) calls for an end to the use of Title 42 to expel asylum seekers at the southern border. This policy places LGBTIQ asylum seekers in particular danger.


Robin M. Johnson, MD

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The Vanishing White Coat

If Roe v Wade is overturned, how will patients with serious mental illness be affected?



Sara Wetzler

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The Faces of Madness

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many diagnoses can it make? The photographer and psychiatrist Hugh Welch Diamond, MD, shares insights into the humanity and stigma of mental illness in Victorian England.


Nayana Kunnel, DO

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Exploring Vital Amines: The Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of B12 Deficiency

Key nutrients are essential to maintaining health. Here's an overview of B12.

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