Authors


Theodore A. Stern, MD

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The ABCs of Cardiac Screening and Electrocardiography

This comprehensive approach for assessing and addressing potential cardiac complications before prescribing psychotropics can enhance care.


Claire C. Holderness, MD, DFAPA

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Adding Insult to Narcissistic Injury: Comorbidity of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder

Diagnosing this intricate comorbidity demands a nuanced approach. Here's what you need to know.


Mehdi Farokhnia, MD, MPH

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An Update on GLP-1 Receptor Agonists as Pharmacotherapies for AUD

How effective are these agents for AUD treatment? An expert shares highlights from his 2024 ASCP Annual Meeting Pharmaceutical Pipeline Update presentation.


Jessica Peirce, PhD

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Treating Trauma and Addiction Simultaneously

1 in 6 people with opioid use disorder experience a new traumatic event every month, but no evidence-based treatment for trauma.


Christina Cwynar, DNP, CPNP-PC, PMHNP-BC

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Multidisciplinary Inpatient Care for Medically Compromised Youth and Young Adults With Eating Disorders

In this CME article, learn more about a protocolized approach to the hospital management of pediatric patients with severe malnutrition related to eating disorders, including the utilization of a multidisciplinary care team and structured psychoeducation materials for families.


Terry R. Bard, DD

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Triage Trauma and Moral Distress

Mental health providers who battle a pandemic may find that it unsettles their deepest sense of self.


Amalia R. Sweet

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Can Epigenetics Promote Resilience Without Genetic Reductionism?

The emergence of epigenetic models has generated a surge of optimism, opening new possibilities for psychiatric intervention.


Petros Levounis, MD, MA

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Addiction’s Seat at the Table: An Interview With Outgoing APA President

Petros Levounis, MD, MA, talks addiction, buprenorphine, his year as president of the APA, and more at the 2024 Annual Meeting.


Bernard Biermann, MD, PhD

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Care of Youth Hospitalized With Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

There is a growing effort to standardize the evaluation and management of pediatric SSRDs, which have been reported as the second most common reason for consultation after suicide assessments.


Josephine Collins, MSc

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Understanding Adult Fire Setting, Pyromania, and Arson

Fire setting is the current preferred term in the literature to describe acts of deliberately started fires regardless of their legal or diagnostic status.


Andrew Coulter, MD, MA

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Legal and Ethical Issues in Emergency Psychiatry

Emergency psychiatry navigates complex ethical dilemmas, balancing patient safety, autonomy, and confidentiality in high-stakes situations.


Robert Hindman, PhD

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Safety Planning: An Essential Feature of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Suicide Prevention

What is a safety plan, and how can clinicians use it to help patients with suicidal behavior?


Anika Sinha

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Smart Growth: the Case for Measuring Brain Capital

Brain health disorders cost the global economy more than $3 trillion per year in lost productivity. What can we do about it?


Laura Booi, PhD

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Boosting Brain Health After COVID-19: A Convergence Solution

How can we face the current pandemic while addressing the brain health crisis?


Antonella Santuccione Chadha, MD

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Mind-Body Resilience for Women: A Focus on Depression

Here’s why we should be paying special attention to women's depression treatment.


Steven Powell, MD

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The Application of Telemedicine in Treating Addiction for Older Adults

Isolated older adults may be especially vulnerable to addiction issues with the onset of the pandemic. Here’s how telemedicine can help.


Jason Goodman, MD

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A New CME: Continuing Moral Education

Every phase of the COVID-19 pandemic brings new ethical challenges.


Michael F. Myers, MD

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Psychiatry’s Gender Trouble

Michael F. Myers, MD, discusses issues of gender and sexuality, both today and in recent psychiatric history.


Renae Reinardy, PsyD

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Gender, Culture, and Social Constructs in Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors

Careful consideration of the complex interplay between cultural identities, associations with beauty, and body-focused repetitive behaviors, may improve case conceptualization and treatment outcomes.


Jennifer Zaspel, MD

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Updates in Pediatric Boarding: A Review of National Pediatric Boarding Consensus Panel Recommendations

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.


Junyang Lou, MD, PhD

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The Fundamentals of QTc: Understanding Risks and Preventing Problems

Some psychiatric medications that can trigger Torsades de Pointes (TdP), a potentially fatal polymorphic ventricular tachycardia that arises during abnormal ventricular repolarization. Are you aware of the risk factors that increase risk of TdP?


Jeff Futo

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At a Crossroads: Clinicians and Law Enforcement, a Partnership to Protect Mental Health

How can we lessen fatal interactions between individuals with mental illness and police? The best possible avenue is partnership and cooperation between mental health clinicians and law enforcement.


Chukwunonso Azubuogu, MD

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Psychosis in the Patient With COVID-19: An Emerging Psychopathology?

"This pandemic represents an unprecedented time that requires a psychiatrist’s vigilance in identifying patients at risk for COVID-19–induced psychosis."


Kenneth Hung, 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.


Andres Avellaneda Ojeda, MD

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Cannabis, Psychosis, and the Legal Implications: Chicken or Egg?

Explore the relationship between cannabis use and psychosis.


Busy Philipps

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Women With ADHD: The Difference Diagnosis and Treatment Can Make

Busy Philipps and Ann Childress, MD, explore the unique challenges women face in ADHD diagnosis, highlighting personal stories and the importance of treatment.


Cassandra Ann Gibson, MD, MS

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Bringing the Hospital Home: Meeting Teens in Crisis Where They Are

Learn more about a feasible, scalable, effective model of care that is a step away from the forced dichotomy of inpatient and outpatient care.


Robert Steel, PhD

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Vaccine Mandate Exemptions for Anxiety: Ethical and Practical Considerations

Does anxiety justify an exemption from vaccine mandates among health care workers?


Damir Huremović, MD, MPP

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A New CME: Continuing Moral Education

Every phase of the COVID-19 pandemic brings new ethical challenges.


Patricia Gherovici, PhD

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Latinx Psychoanalysis

A psychoanalyst shares her experience working with patients whose lives are marked by poverty, migration, and race and gender discrimination.

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