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FDA approves monthly subcutaneous olanzapine LAI Weltruza, expanding schizophrenia treatment options and renewing debate on making long-acting injectables routine.

Athletes can feel the relief a substance gives them long before they can see what it costs. A composite case of cannabis use in a track athlete shows how to assess both.

How past “untreatable” labels mislead psychiatry—and why measurement-informed care and difficult-to-treat depression replace today’s treatment-resistant mindset.

There is a question older than medicine, and perhaps older than philosophy, that psychiatry has largely avoided: What makes us human?

APSARD is preparing US adult ADHD guidelines, delivering long-awaited screening, diagnosis, and treatment recommendations as experts discuss the upcoming release.

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Rethink “treatment-resistant depression” by adopting difficult-to-treat depression, verifying adequate trials, and stratifying drivers like trauma and inflammation to improve outcomes.

Once-monthly subcutaneous olanzapine LAI requires no loading doses, oral supplementation, or post-injection monitoring, based on phase 3 SOLARIS data.

Neurosterix advances NTX-253, an oral M4 PAM, into phase 2 for schizophrenia after phase 1 shows promising safety and pharmacokinetics.

Routine symptom measures sharpen psychiatric diagnosis, speed remission, flag relapse risk, and turn EHR data into a learning system for better care.

Seaport begins phase 2a trial of GlyphAgo for generalized anxiety disorder with sleep disturbance, testing liver-sparing agomelatine dosing and tracking sleep, anxiety outcomes.

FDA clears Motivista, a prescription smartphone digital therapeutic, to reduce negative symptoms of schizophrenia—supported by phase 3 results and strong patient engagement.

Vortioxetine eases depression in older adults, while cognitive gains stay mixed—showing selective boosts in attention and processing speed, not consistent global improvement.

A remitted patient with ARFID faces panic after a crash, showing why recovery includes somatic fear, not just eating behavior.

Lisa Harding, MD, urges psychiatrists to gather histories, deprescribe safely, and send focused sleep referrals now that orexin agonists have arrived for narcolepsy.

Once-monthly subcutaneous olanzapine TEV-749 shows sustained stabilization and remission in schizophrenia, supports direct switching, and avoids post-injection monitoring.

Real-world data links once-monthly Uzedy to fewer ER visits, better adherence, and lower costs—plus fewer bipolar I relapses when switching from pills.

Explore PTSD prevalence, comorbidities, and first-line care as we invite clinicians to share cases and research.

Veterans younger than 30 starting antidepressants, and anyone coprescribed opioids and benzodiazepines, will need to sign consent forms starting in 2027.

How genes and early stress interact to shape antisocial behavior, from dopamine and serotonin pathways to MAOA and oxytocin findings.

Policy shifts have opened the door to telehealth buprenorphine for pregnant and postpartum women with OUD, but research, guidelines, and state policy lag behind.

Overlooking how hearing loss and sign language shape the Mental Status Examination can make language deprivation look like psychosis, authors warn.

Phase 3 psilocybin and LSD data plus new FDA guidance fuel a depression boom—yet clinics still wrestle with dosing time, cost, access.

Explore Q3 2026 psych pipeline highlights—wins, setbacks, top disorders, and breakthrough ADHD, TRD, schizophrenia and Alzheimer therapies to watch.

The menopause transition carries a 2-fold increased risk of depression, and an expert explains how clinicians can screen for it, tell it apart from other conditions, and treat it.

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A cross-sector ACNP task force calls for shared standards and shared data to move psychiatry beyond trial-and-error prescribing.

Find the references for October cover story, "Moving Away From Treatment-Resistant Depression and Toward Difficult-to-Treat Depression," by Walter Paganin, MD, PhD, here.

Despite previous failure of PDE10A inhibitor drugs to demonstrate antipsychotic effects in clinical trials, a new "improved" iteration has met phase 2 trial endpoints.