Psychiatric Times Vol 36, Issue 7

July 30, 2019

As a neuropsychiatric and general medical syndrome, catatonia represents an important diagnostic and treatment challenge for all clinicians given its morbidity and mortality.

July 30, 2019

As we discover new diseases of the brain that present with psychiatric symptoms, it remains incumbent upon us to remember the experience of patients and their families in the context of society at large.

July 30, 2019

While the process of diagnosing is common to all fields of medicine, this article specifically addresses missed “medical” diagnoses in patients who present to or are being followed by psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians.

July 30, 2019

DSM-5 categorizes PNES as a functional neurological disorder or conversion disorder with seizures. It is essential that neurologists, psychiatrists, and other clinicians coordinate care to ensure that patients with PNES receive a prompt diagnosis.

July 29, 2019

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is a one-of-a-kind nonprofit that is here for your patients and their families, no matter where they are.

July 26, 2019

The recognition of a wide range of traumatic experiences-physical or sexual assault, motor vehicular accidents, natural disasters, terrorism-has implications for understanding the vulnerability to vicarious trauma inherent in a clinician’s practice.

July 25, 2019

New research highlights the potential benefits and detriments of treatment strategies for ADHD, including both pharmacological and nonpharmacological options.

July 24, 2019

Today, 25 years after the Lorena Bobbitt trial, the case has gained a renewed interest. A look back shows how far we have-and haven’t-come in conceptualizing sexual violence.

July 22, 2019

Doing a review of systems wasn’t “rocket science,” as they say-but it was a classic example of medical science and of why psychiatrists are physicians first.

July 18, 2019

This CME discusses what is known about the pathology of tardive dyskinesia, the risk factors for the disorder, assessment of patients with movement disorders, and diagnosis and treatment.

July 16, 2019

Words have power. These include the power to heal, especially words spoken by physicians, mental healers in particular-psychiatrists.

July 15, 2019

Congratulations and kudos to Dr Richard M. Berlin, whose poem “Eye Contact” was chosen to be included in the 2019 Hippocrates Prize Anthology.

July 15, 2019

A ghostly glow frames the face of a man with nothing to hide...

July 12, 2019

Medical professionals don’t want to prescribe too many pain killers, which may contribute to the epidemic of opioid misuse, yet they don’t want patients to needlessly suffer.

July 11, 2019

Each moment of each day we make choices that can affect our brain health-our challenge is, without judgment, to increase the choices that promote a healthy brain.

July 08, 2019

The first therapy to target the primary mechanism of the disease is safe and well tolerated, say study investigators.

July 05, 2019

A penetrating, deep, and intrepid exploration of Szasz’s oeuvre, and the indelible impact he has had on the practice of psychiatry, in this country and abroad.

July 03, 2019

The fallout from burnout: alcohol dependence, binge eating, sleep disorders, and general ill health.