Vol 40, Issue 2

In this CME article, learn how to evaluate older adults who present with significant appetite and weight changes for the presence of an eating disorder.

Here are 9 things you need to know about the clinical management of major depressive disorder.

How can psychiatrists collaborate within the treatment team to help patients on the path to ongoing recovery?

Approximately 30 million individuals will be diagnosed with an eating disorder in the United States during their lifetime.

"20% to 30% of patients develop a persistent, hard-to-treat illness."

"There are a number of themes in my book, and one of them is to subtly bust the myth that people who get diagnosed with serious mental illness cannot recover."

"The Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act would make it easier for older patients to get care by modernizing the prior authorization process."

"I remember sitting like my patients when time expired, entire lives grasped in a 50 minute hour..."

There is very modest evidence that clozapine may be associated with improvement of catatonia.

"rTMS and tDCS allow for controlled and targeted neuromodulation, and when combined with other therapeutic approaches, they may produce superior outcomes."

A patient loss does not undo or discard the multitude of meaningful life changing and life preserving work done.

"The history of medicine is rich in blaming the disease or the patient for 'untreatable' symptoms, until we stumble upon or develop a treatment that is, in fact, effective."

Happy Valentine's Day from us to you!

"All I could think to myself was, 'At least he is safe and will receive treatment in prison—something the community failed to provide him.'"