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In his William C. Menninger Memorial Lecture, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, shared lessons learned and remaining challenges for the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in terms of mental health and behavioral issues.

What is excited delirium syndrome and how should it be treated? The short answer is we do not know.

Finding a program that is a good fit while LGBTQ+ may be more difficult than it seems…

Young, professional women in academic psychiatry are facing down the iceberg: gender discrimination.

What treatments could handle both psychiatric emergencies and long-standings mental health conditions—in a hurry?

Too often, the medical issues associated with traumatic brain injury are mistakenly diagnosed as psychiatric disorders. A few simple questions and tests can elucidate the real culprit and lead to appropriate treatment.

Collaborative care guides care across disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, and primary care. The goal is to change practice, build community, and identify health professionals needing the most assistance.

According to Nora D. Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, drug use and overdose deaths have significantly increased since the outset of the pandemic. What made it worse?

What’s a psychiatrist to do? An APA ethics panel at the Annual Meeting considered various dilemmas, including possible conflicts between physicians’ obligations to individual patients and their obligation to promote the public good.

Can depression be passed on to future generations, and if it can, how can treatment help?

One doctor at the APA Virtual meeting explains how ketamine can rebuild spine and synaptic proteins in the brain, but may be difficult to actually prescribe to patients.

Timothy W. Fong, MD, touches on our current understanding about cannabis use for psychiatric disorders.

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.