The FDA approval of aducanumab has given hope to millions of patients with Alzheimer disease—but will it live up to the hype?
Fathers share their heartbreaking stories of loss and advocate for a new model of suicide prevention that emphasizes early intervention and awareness at the 2025 APA Annual Meeting.
What is a sleep disorder? Explore the complexities of their definitions and the impact of circadian rhythms on health and well-being.
Integrated models of care offer real time solutions by enabling primary care to identify and address behavioral health concerns through routine screening and early intervention more efficiently. Learn more here.
EmPATH units revolutionize emergency psychiatry, offering rapid, compassionate care for behavioral health crises and improving community outcomes.
How can we improve rural mental health?
With a broader and multifaceted understanding of pain, patient care can move from a focus on eradicating pain, as based on objective pain scores, to improving the patient’s quality of life, while simultaneously decreasing pain to a level that is acceptable to the individual patient.
The vaccine needs to be appropriately framed: as a benefit, not a risk.
Emergency psychiatry navigates complex ethical dilemmas, balancing patient safety, autonomy, and confidentiality in high-stakes situations.
In this CME article, learn how to apply novel treatment approaches for patients with bipolar depression.
Session at the 2023 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting shares insights on REMS for psychiatric medications.
“There are things that I think an Asian therapist would just understand… Maybe with them I can just be a normal person.”
What are the connections between what we eat and disorders such as anxiety and depression?
1 in 3 COVID-19 survivors experience persistent consequences. What can psychiatry do to help?
Contingency management is an effective behavior change technique commonly used to treat substance use disorders.
How can you handle patient gifts as a clinician?
Difficult New Year's resolutions have a poor success rate. Why not, instead, take a different approach?
Proposed budget cuts threaten mental health services, risking patient care and community stability while exacerbating existing disparities in access to treatment.
Defense attorneys have concerns regarding their client’s competency in about 8% to 15% of felony prosecutions. That is where psychiatrists come in.
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.
We must prioritize youth mental health for a flourishing and resilient American future.
Although the holidays are considered to be joyful and festive, some pediatric patients and their families are experiencing difficult times.
Running, walking, and other forms of exercise create some specific chemical changes in the body—which may end up benefitting the mind.
How can we face the current pandemic while addressing the brain health crisis?
Cognitive symptoms affect between 85% and 94% of patients with major depressive disorder. Despite this prevalence, cognitive dysfunction often remains undertreated and inadequately addressed in routine clinical practice.
The world is facing a cognition crisis. Here’s how to face it with measurement-based cognitive care.
"This pandemic represents an unprecedented time that requires a psychiatrist’s vigilance in identifying patients at risk for COVID-19–induced psychosis."
The development of the National Pediatric Boarding Consensus Panel guidelines attempts to provide hospitals suggestions for a safe, timely, and equitable standard of care for patients who are boarding.
Despite the FDA's complete response letter for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, researchers believe the data behind this PTSD treatment is what matters most.
How can we help refugee youth engage in positive coping strategies and heal from their trauma?