Vol 34 No 9

A number of behaviors are improved by financial incentive interventions. Details here.

Many psychiatrists have patients who they know would do better if their adherence to treatment could be optimized. Here's a case in point.

The authors outline a series of strategies that can help promote adherence to the therapeutic regimen.

For ethical and economic reasons, when patients are acutely ill with catatonia and melancholia, ECT is best considered sooner rather than later.

Psychiatrists may be able to contribute to the care of patients with DM by understanding this problem and its proper treatment. Here's a quiz to test your knowledge.

In Dr. Andrew Farah’s new biography of Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway’s Brain, he details the neuropsychiatric demise of a great literary mind.

This article delineates the role of psychiatrists in preventing HIV transmission before and after HIV exposure through pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis.

The noted Israeli author's latest book is set in a 1990s second-string comedy club.

Like all things in our technologically advanced society, for all hard-working, empathy-challenged doctors comes a new and easy, although not painless, way to gain empathic ability...an empathy gadget?

Here: a review of prevalence, impact, etiology and pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, and treatment.

Neither time nor science has given pause to some attorneys who exploit the misunderstanding that surrounds the putative "criminogenic" effects of antidepressants.

This article focuses on appropriate versus inappropriate use of antipsychotics, the importance of careful assessment, and the consequences of not treating.

MAOIs deserve special consideration in the treatment of refractory depression. Here's a case in point.

County hospital GYN clinic back in the days of Power to the People, five hours for 50 women stirruped by our clinic nurse...

The Slenderman case revives a long-standing debate: does media exposure influence acts of violence in youth?

Six fundamental assumptions underlie the medical model most psychiatrists use in their clinical work.