How can digital therapeutics more readily be brought into the hands of patients with serious mental illnesses?
Panelists discuss how faster-acting treatments like zuranolone might improve patient outcomes and quality of life, the initial signs to monitor for assessing effectiveness, barriers to accessing such therapies in underserved populations and strategies to increase accessibility, approaches to ensuring safety while addressing distress in patients with intrusive thoughts, effective strategies for managing sleep issues in postpartum depression (PPD), advice for the psychiatry community when treating PPD, and how to tailor advice for clinicians working with underserved populations.
With the Super Bowl highlighting elite athletic performance, sports psychiatry is essential in strengthening athletes' mental resilience and well-being.
An expert offers a critical examination of the "slippery slope" argument.
Attendees at the 2025 APA Annual Meeting are excited to connect with peers and experts, exploring lifestyle medicine and networking opportunities for career growth.
Understanding and addressing the unmet therapeutic needs of individuals living with mental health conditions.
What is the connection between ADHD diagnosis and a Western dietary pattern?
In this 2-part Special Report, we highlight the urgency of addressing child and adolescent mental health.
Seniors living independently have suffered isolation during the pandemic. What role can technology play in solving this?
With the growing elderly population and the prevalence of cognitive impairment, how can we protect older adults from financial scams?
A look at the association between cannabis use and schizophrenia, as well as the need for comprehensive public health policies and education.
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.
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.
If Roe v Wade is overturned, how will patients with serious mental illness be affected?
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.
Key nutrients are essential to maintaining health. Here's an overview of B12.
Classic psychedelic research is rapidly expanding...
How should clinicians approach treatment when their patient disagrees with the diagnosis?
Cannabis use during pregnancy is associated with a host of negative outcomes.
Here’s how the Academy of Organizational and Occupational Psychiatry can help you connect with your fellow psychiatrists about complex mental health issues in the workplace.
The medical community must examine how and what we can do to welcome and serve the black and brown communities that may view us as the authority they dare not call.
Issues of well-being, especially during a disaster or pandemic, are not going to disappear. Dr Cross Hansel talks suicide prevention week and how to get patients back to their pre-pandemic mental health state.
Contesters of STAR*D discuss the impact and relevance of the study's remission rates.
Learn more about best practices when treating comorbid trauma and psychosis.
How can we prevent retraumatization of vulnerable individuals and enable them to seek redress?
Mental health leads with 36% of all outpatient visits and 39% of all telehealth services. What effect does this have on psychiatric practice?