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Why aren’t we Americans as happy as we should be, given all the wonderful things we have in our lives?

A simple diagnostic test for Lewy body dementia?

With greater expertise in user experiences, psychiatrists can position themselves to more strongly guide technology companies in building and implementing better apps.

DSM focuses on the difference between Bipolar I and II. But there’s another way to categorize the illness that may have more relevance to treatment.

How many people who take an antidepressant truly have severe difficulties when they try to taper off? Or, is it “all in their mind”?

Immunologic processes may play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of psychiatric disorders, opening an entire new avenue for novel strategies to prevent and treat psychiatric disease.

In addition to psychosocial problems, there is a growing realization that PTSD may also lead to or exacerbate chronic medical health conditions.

This 2-part Special Report devotes itself to the new inflammatory world that clinicians and researchers find themselves in. Most of our prior and current preconceptions about the role of immunity and mental illness have been-and are-wrong.

In 1897, the French sociologist Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) published Le suicide: Étude de sociologie [Suicide: A Study in Sociology]. With it, Durkheim largely succeeded in achieving one of his main goals.

Emerging adults in the midst of a tremendous emotional growth spurt and a leap of neurocognitive maturation often need guidance articulating what bothers them.

Might a lower prevalence suggest that it is less a problem?

This article summarizes literature on post-disaster mental health and describes the public health crisis in Puerto Rico. Special attention is given to highlight higher suicide rates and PTSD that develop in post-disaster areas.

Green hills patched with April, snow and I’ve chosen to celebrate. with a full slate of patients.

In this age of chat rooms and social media, an ever-growing number of psychiatric patients use the internet to find their treatment community online.

A tribute to the life and work of psychiatrist Walter Weintraub, MD.

Pretreatment assessment of functional brain connectivity in patients with major depressive disorder may predict treatment response, according to new study.

Careful consideration and discussion of risks of treatment and under-treatment (or no treatment) can help can decrease the risk of decompensation during pregnancy or the postpartum period.

Some of the most challenging decisional capacity consultations are requests to determine if a patient has the capacity to participate in discharge planning.

High levels of vitamin D-binding protein may hold promise for use as a diagnostic biomarker of pediatric BD.

A new study makes the case for universal screening in patients who appear to be most vulnerable to underdiagnosis.

When the treatment doesn’t work, consider the options. Or, question your diagnosis.

IOP Redefined. We thought that the value of an IOP for addiction could be so much more. Locked into decades of uninspired routine, it was time to see what would happen if we removed the old premise that you needed to drive to a meeting. Turns out, it changed everything.

Residents, students, and fellows are invited to submit a manuscript on the topic, “Tardive Dyskinesia." More in this courtesy post.

PTSD in late life can result from trauma that occurred much earlier or can follow traumatic events that occurred for the first time in old age.

This exclusive interview covers the importance of interaction and measurement in learning for patients and physicians. What makes interaction in a learning environment difficult for people? Can doctors "learn" to tolerate that not every patient likes them?

In the elderly, falls are a common and important problem. In the US, fall-related injuries cost approximately $30 billion per year, and about 30% of older adults fall at least once in a given year.

A structured training program for parents of children with ADHD was highly successful in ameliorating a number of behaviors and symptoms associated with the disorder.

Are they hallucinations or distortions?

In the past decade, the effects of antidepressants on the QT interval and the subsequent risk of cardiac arrhythmias have become a notable concern. When the FDA released a drug safety communication about the risk of abnormal changes in the electrical activity of the heart with citalopram, providers learned to consider this risk as not only an adverse effect of a specific medication, but also the consequence of drug-drug interactions.

The game looks disarmingly simple. In fact, it’s alarmingly complex.