Psychiatric Times Vol 36, Issue 9

September 30, 2019

Treating eating disorders can feel challenging because patients are typically ambivalent about changing their behavior; however, it is also rewarding, as full recovery is possible even in the most chronically and severely ill patients.

September 30, 2019

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe and debilitating illness with one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric disorder. The illness course is often long, recovery is slow, and the rates of full recovery are low.

September 30, 2019

More than two-thirds of patients with eating disorders also have comorbid mood and anxiety disorders. This article considers how a transdiagnostic process called interoception may help to advance our understanding and treatment of eating disorders.

September 30, 2019

Eating disorders (EDs) are associated with high medical and psychiatric comorbidity, poor quality of life, and high mortality, and mortality from anorexia nervosa (AN) is the highest of all mental disorders. Fortunately, there are a number of evidence-based psychological treatment approaches for EDs.

September 26, 2019

Assessment of suicidal risk in adolescents is a solemn professional obligation that involves obtaining as much information as possible from family members or caregivers. Evaluation of mood disorders is an essential part of the assessment.

September 26, 2019

This article explores why Enduring Personality Change After Catastrophic Experience (EPCACE) is a clinically useful diagnosis.

September 26, 2019

With the goal of making psychiatric care more available, accessible, and affordable while maintaining the highest standards...comes the challenge of accomplishing this with limited resources.

September 25, 2019

The evidence is clear: bipolar disorder is frequently both underdiagnosed and overdiagnosed.

September 24, 2019

From drug company mergers to government watchdogs, important trends are emerging.

September 23, 2019

Most drugs, after journeying through the various metabolic systems throughout the body, find their exit.

September 20, 2019

This CME article provides an understanding of the effects on the CNS that lead to HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND).

September 19, 2019

Nature provides both physical and psychological benefits. How does this healing through exposure to nature occur?

September 18, 2019

Dysdiadochokinesia was a hard word to remember-and an impossible one to forget.

September 17, 2019

The association between psychiatric disorders, most notably depression and anxiety, and pain is well established. However, mental health professionals, and especially psychiatrists, are still often excluded from treating patients with pain.

September 16, 2019

Cannabis is a widely used drug of abuse in adolescents. With legalization of marijuana, adolescent cannabis use may increase substantially.

September 13, 2019

My musician patient in a fetal curl, Tchaikovsky’s “Meditation” plays an endless loop against this climate controlled conspiracy of monitors and machines...

September 13, 2019

Current estimates are that 4% to 5% of the population is at risk for a disorder on the bipolar spectrum. Among the patients of that spectrum are those with a disturbance of temperament in the direction of hypomania.

September 12, 2019

With internet and video gaming here to stay, game designers will continue to prioritize habitual gaming over the health of players, and the burden of pathological gaming will fall on users and their families.

September 05, 2019

Negative symptoms, subsyndromal depressive symptoms, and functional impairment often persist in patients with first-episode schizophrenia.

September 04, 2019

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