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An interdisciplinary gathering at the 2025 virtual conference of the Society for Digital Mental Health heard presentations and panel discussions on digital therapeutics, along with reports of studies on the technology and outcomes by student and young researchers.

Young Researchers Featured at Conference of Society for Digital Mental Health

is an award-winning psychiatrist who specialized in the cultural and ethical aspects of psychiatry and is now in retirement and retirement as a private pro bono community psychiatrist. A prolific writer and speaker, he has done a weekday column titled “Psychiatric Views on the Daily News” and a weekly video, “Psychiatry & Society,” since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged. He was chosen to receive the 2024 Abraham Halpern Humanitarian Award from the American Association for Social Psychiatry. Previously, he received the Administrative Award in 2016 from the American Psychiatric Association, the one-time designation of being a Hero of Public Psychiatry from the Speaker of the Assembly of the APA in 2002, and the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in 1991. He presented the third Rabbi Jeffrey B. Stiffman lecture at Congregation Shaare Emeth in St. Louis on Sunday, May 19, 2024. He is an advocate and activist for mental health issues related to climate instability, physician burnout, and xenophobia. He is now editing the final book in a 4-volume series on religions and psychiatry for Springer: Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Christianity, and now

 The Eastern Religions, and Spirituality

Let's look at the intersection of psychiatry and the afterlife, including the beliefs, research, and personal insights on reincarnation and purpose.

The Wonder About Past Lives, Dying, Death, and the Afterlife

is an outpatient psychiatrist at Prisma Health-Upstate and clinical associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. He served on the American Psychiatric Association’s Task Force to Address Structural Racism Throughout Psychiatry, and he currently serves as the Diversity and Inclusion section editor and advisory board member for

Explore the transformative power of self-compassion through poetry, mentorship, and shared humanity in overcoming doubt and anxiety.

Ode to Self-Compassion 

Roger S. McIntyre, MD, FRCPC, shares the backstory and pharmacology of incretins to better understand the role of GLP-1 RAs in psychiatry.  

History, Physiology, and Pharmacology of Incretins

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We often describe neural connections in the brain as if they were a cellular version of Michelangelo’s famous painting “Hand of God Giving Life to Adam,” on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Painting Neural Circuitry With a Viral Brush: Part 1