The last year has seen an unprecedented shift in the medical landscape, and mental health care is no exception. Experts look at the evidence and risks of digital tools, apps, telehealth, and other technologies for the treatment of serious mental illness.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and related conditions do not always respond to first-line treatments. Fortunately, new options are on the horizon.
The pandemic has made caring for geriatric patients more difficult, but a panel at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting discusses the latest best practices.
Sustainability is more than just cutting carbon emissions. It means creating a system where all of us can thrive—not just survive.
This year’s theme is crucial to the role science plays in dealing with structural racism, a worldwide pandemic, and the inequities in terms of access to care for so many people.
The president of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry (AAEP) gives a preview of his APA conference presentation.
New and noteworthy sessions fill the program at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, which enters its second year as a virtual session.
Among the innovations presented at the 2019 APA meeting: voice analytics for detecting and monitoring mood, and smartphone and web-based passive data as a digital biomarker for mental health disorders.
How safe and effective are mental health apps? What’s the impact of social media on youth? Insights here from presenters at APA 2019.
You don’t need to be a tech wizard to help patients and offer guidance on digital mental health tools.
Even as antidepressants improve mood, they can worsen sleep-and poor sleep is both a symptom and a cause of depression.
Does psychiatry have an implicit bias about religion?
Psychiatrists' knowledge about how the mind works may be the “secret ingredient” to help reduce burnout in other physicians.
Our ethical priorities must include the care of our colleagues as well as our patients of backgrounds subject to hate and discrimination.
A lively ongoing debate is examining the ethics and legality of age-based evaluation of clinicians.
How to make cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis feasible in a busy practice with limited resources.
Is creativity augmented or inhibited by mental illness? Insights from 4 case studies of troubled yet brilliant minds.
The key to identification of prodromal psychosis may lie in community-based outreach.
First-episode psychosis cases are presented here using the RAISE study model-individual sessions, family psycho-education, social advancement in school work, and an expert psychiatrist prescriber.
Is there clinical evidence for the use of digital tools like smartphone apps for schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses?
Depression can be accompanied by cognitive symptoms, but the nature of the relationship between these symptom categories is multifaceted.
What are the effects on the clinician who loses a patient? How to respond?
The elephant in the room: the problem of iatrogenic opioid use disorder is being ignored.
More than 50 years have passed since One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was published, and almost 40 years since the movie was released, but the issues seem as relevant today as they were back then. If you haven’t seen the film or have forgotten what you saw, see it again as soon as you can. Here's why.
How to manage EHRs is at the top of the list of physician concerns, according to past AMA President Jeremy Lazarus, MD. The first psychiatrist to lead the AMA in over 70 years, Dr Lazarus addressed the Assembly at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in New York in May.
As the use of social media becomes necessary for the online presence of medical professionals, this topic will continue to be essential for the training of both current and future psychiatrists.
Mood disorders in older adults are neither inevitable nor particularly resistant to treatment. With attention to the special needs of older patients during evaluation, treatment, and follow up, clinicians can help many patients derive greater enjoyment from their later years.
We talk about mental disorders as brain disorders, but what does that really mean? How does it change the way we think about autism, schizophrenia, depression, bipolar, and other illnesses? The answer to these questions are still evolving. More in this video exclusive with NIMH Director Thomas Insel, MD.
Vice President of the United States Joe Biden spoke at this year's American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in New York. Here, a video clip from his speech.
