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Helping Complex PatientsThe National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is a one-of-a-kind nonprofit that is here for your patients and their families, no matter where they are.
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Mini Quiz: The Truth About Psychogenic Nonepileptic SeizuresPNES cause significant suffering, and most patients with undiagnosed and/or untreated PNES continue to have seizures and remain on disability. What do we know about PNES? Take the quiz and learn more.
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Addressing Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures: Clinical ChallengesDSM-5 categorizes PNES as a functional neurological disorder or conversion disorder with seizures. It is essential that neurologists, psychiatrists, and other clinicians coordinate care to ensure that patients with PNES receive a prompt diagnosis.
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Puerto Rico Se Levanta (“Puerto Rico Rises”): From Denial and Passivity to Action and HopeHurricane Maria was the wakeup call many Puerto Ricans needed to become active in social justice efforts. Their story serves as an example of transformational resilience.
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Cannabinoids for Chronic Pain: An Opioid Alternative?The cannabinoids (particularly CBD) have been hailed as non-addictive solutions to using escalating doses of opioids for chronic pain. More in this research update.
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How Can Psychiatrists Become Better Negotiators?Use these strategies to facilitate beneficial outcomes for patients, improve relationships with colleagues, and enhance workplace satisfaction.
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Making Your Practice Work for YouBy releasing old assumptions and brainstorming, it is possible to break the old models of private practice and find new ways to be productive within your practice.
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Polypharmacy: A Challenge for Community PsychiatristsPolypharmacy has been met with challenges because many practicing clinical guidelines and treatment algorithms prefer a monotherapy approach.
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Polypharmacy: A Challenge for Community PsychiatristsPolypharmacy has been met with challenges because many practicing clinical guidelines and treatment algorithms prefer a monotherapy approach.
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Polypharmacy: A Challenge for Community PsychiatristsPolypharmacy has been met with challenges because many practicing clinical guidelines and treatment algorithms prefer a monotherapy approach.
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Caffeine: Neurobiological and Psychiatric ImplicationsThis CME article discusses the pharmacokinetics of caffeine and its implications on anxiety.
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The History and Value of Guidelines for Best Practices of Telemental HealthTelepsychiatry has its origins in the 1950s and has moved from an esoteric curiosity to mainstream practice. However, it has been challenged along the way at many turns.
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Recognizing and Treating Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in People With AutismWhile the core features of autism impair functioning, a significant source of further impairment is comorbid psychiatric disorders.
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Recognizing and Treating Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in People With AutismWhile the core features of autism impair functioning, a significant source of further impairment is comorbid psychiatric disorders.
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4 Stages of Chronic Traumatic EncephalopathyA 59-year-old man with a history of multiple concussions has been having a series of neurocognitive symptoms for the past several years. Discover more in this case.
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5 Psychopharmacologic Approaches to Treating TinnitusTinnitus affects 50 million people in the US and can require urgent medical assistance. It can also cause considerable anxiety and even hallucinations. Reducing symptom intensity is key.
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5 Psychopharmacologic Approaches to Treating TinnitusTinnitus affects 50 million people in the US and can require urgent medical assistance. It can also cause considerable anxiety and even hallucinations. Reducing symptom intensity is key.
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Integrating Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Into the OCD Treatment AlgorithmAs our understanding of the neurobiology of OCD grows, additional treatment options become available and should be thoughtfully integrated into the treatment algorithm. One such option is dTMS.
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Green SpacesNature provides both physical and psychological benefits. How does this healing through exposure to nature occur?
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HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder After the Start of Combination Antiretroviral TherapyThis CME article provides an understanding of the effects on the CNS that lead to HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND).
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HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder After the Start of Combination Antiretroviral TherapyThis CME article provides an understanding of the effects on the CNS that lead to HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND).
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Undecidable Choices and the Polarization of Shared Ambivalence: What Can Psychiatry Add to Dispute Resolution?Reframing is being tested as a potentially viable way to address intractable conflict where sacred values are at issue. In memory of Johan Verhulst, MD.
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Cyclothymia, the Quintessential Mood Temperament: Ignored or Forgotten? Part III: Differentiating Cyclothymia and BPD and Treatment ConsiderationsIn Part III of this series, an expert discusses the key differences between cyclothymia and borderline personality disorder, along with treatment considerations for cyclothymia.
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Transgenerational Transmission of Resilience After Catastrophic TraumaIn this CME, learn how to design interventions to promote resilience, study their relative effectiveness, and implement them accordingly.
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Transgenerational Transmission of Resilience After Catastrophic TraumaIn this CME, learn how to design interventions to promote resilience, study their relative effectiveness, and implement them accordingly.
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How We EatTreating eating disorders can feel challenging because patients are typically ambivalent about changing their behavior; however, it is also rewarding, as full recovery is possible even in the most chronically and severely ill patients.
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How Anxiety and Habits Contribute to Anorexia NervosaAnorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe and debilitating illness with one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric disorder. The illness course is often long, recovery is slow, and the rates of full recovery are low.
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Interoception in Eating Disorders: A Clinical PrimerMore than two-thirds of patients with eating disorders also have comorbid mood and anxiety disorders. This article considers how a transdiagnostic process called interoception may help to advance our understanding and treatment of eating disorders.
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Closing the Research-Practice Gap in Eating DisordersEating disorders (EDs) are associated with high medical and psychiatric comorbidity, poor quality of life, and high mortality, and mortality from anorexia nervosa (AN) is the highest of all mental disorders. Fortunately, there are a number of evidence-based psychological treatment approaches for EDs.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: There Are No Best PracticesJust because something is legal does not make it ethical, in the opinion of this psychiatrist, who turned down an invitation to be a presenter on the topic of PAS.
