Targeted mineral supplementation has the potential to augment treatment response and yield improvement in clinical symptoms. 

Evidence-Based Research on the Role of Zinc and Magnesium Deficiencies in Depression

Integrative psychiatry helps us push deeper into the testing of metabolic, gut, and brain features, which seems more fitting, given our role as physicians.

The Premise, Practice, and Promise of Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

These methods facilitate deep rest, help reset circadian rhythm, and release endogenous opioids and cannabinoids that help reduce anxiety and enhance a sense of well-being for people with PTSD.

Mind-Body-Spirit Interventions for Patients With PTSD

Potential benefits and benign safety profile of omega-3s indicate a promising intervention. 

Fat, Food, and Mood: Beyond Omega-3s

Can't keep up with the literature? Here's some help.

Research Findings That Can Change Clinical Practice: Part 1

Here: a look at the associations between negative psychological states and CV health, physiologic and health behavior mechanisms, and ways to diagnose and treat depression and anxiety disorders. 

Depression and Anxiety in Cardiac Disease

With antipsychotics, my once-brilliant child can again speak, write, read, and maintain hygiene and has regained motor functioning.

Thank you, Drs. Ronald Pies and Joseph Pierre

As our understanding of the brain and new technologies have rapidly evolved, such an extensive text on psychiatric ethics is clearly timely.

Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics

Here's a case that illustrates the potential for alprazolam to create a dementia-like appearance-not to mention a premature aging of the patient.

The Anti-Youth Pill? Alprazolam Toxicity Can Add Years to Brain Age and Appearance

What are the limitations and advantages of biomedicine and Asian medicine? When is it more beneficial to use one or the other? Guidelines for combining the two?

Integrating Biomedicine and Asian Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities

Here’s a very unscientific survey of this year’s most meaningful issues is psychiatry. Quite a year.

Hot Topics of 2016: In and  Around Psychiatry

How do meaning, memory, emotions and, especially, human suffering arise from the brain? 

Neuropsychiatry: Toward Solving the Mysteries That Animate Psychiatry

Bolted to the bedroom loft, twenty feet high with lacquered sides and honey colored risers polished with pine-scented wax-these are the rungs I climb to the feather bed, candle, and bottle of red wine...

The Ladder

Since ancient times, doctors have shown a good deal of interest in identifying seasonal patterns in the incidence of symptoms and disease. Could the holiday blues be a myth?

The Holiday Syndrome: Who Exactly Came Up With the Idea of Those Christmas Blues?

Be cautious: not all obsessive thinking is OCD.

Bipolar Plus OCD: Which to Treat First?

Two recent clinical trials of opioid medication for depression and suicidality highlight the role of brain opioid systems in depression.

Opioids to Treat Depression: The Jury Is Out

A recent meta-analysis shows this adjunctive agent reduces residual symptoms of psychopathology as well as body weight.

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