Vol 34 No 9

September 29, 2017

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

September 29, 2017

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

September 29, 2017

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

September 28, 2017

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

September 27, 2017

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.

September 26, 2017

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

September 25, 2017

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

September 22, 2017

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

September 21, 2017

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?

September 20, 2017

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

September 19, 2017

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

September 18, 2017

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

September 15, 2017

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

September 14, 2017

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

September 05, 2017

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

September 04, 2017

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