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What treatments are available for those with older age bipolar disorder?

Is jazz a good litmus test for Russia’s leadership?

What is a safety plan, and how can clinicians use it to help patients with suicidal behavior?

It could be a long and cold winter for Russia…

The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the September 2022 issue of Psychiatric Times.

Between 1980 and 1998, the relative frequency of late-onset bipolar disorder increased from 1% to 11%. How can you best assess for this condition?

Here’s how the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law provide valuable opportunities for psychiatrists and the psychiatric field.

Should religion and spirituality be tools in the psychiatric arsenal?

As patients improve with antidepressant treatment, emotional numbing decreases.

In a well-blinded study, researchers investigated and directly compared the acute effects of LSD and psilocybin in healthy participants.

Stigma poses a serious risk to quality of care and accessibility.

This jazz musician, in his own way, helped improve mental health.

A new—cough, cough—combination treatment for depression. Researchers performed an RCT of dextromethorphan-bupropion in major depressive disorder.

From historic USPSTF draft screening recommendations to the need for novel treatments for bipolar depression, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

How can a robust understanding of the altered-state experience drive the development of therapeutic frameworks that are designed around that experience?

The sources of chronic stress and inflammation need to change, which means the toxic work setting needs to change.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most sustained comprehensive mental health recovery and research program implemented after a natural disaster.

Only we have the power to permanently increase our lightness over dark.

In this CME article, learn more about the rationale for considering novel treatments for patients with bipolar depression.

How can we increase assessment of anxiety without increasing other problems? Where is the balance?

The NCCHC and 166 national organizations recently signed a letter to Senate leadership advocating for increased access to buprenorphine.

What can we do to improve self-compassion and empathy as mental and behavioral health providers?

Let’s stop fighting amongst ourselves as a mental health movement and focus on biological as well as psychosocial treatment.

For the first time, the USPSTF is recommending anxiety screening for adults under 65.

Reading 1 story a day might help those living with suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

Here’s how nutrients can ameliorate psychiatric conditions.

Physicians are not immune to the gravitational pull toward extramarital affairs, particularly with the most alluring mistress: Medicine.

While God can no longer “save the Queen,” we in psychiatry can save the best of what she represented and taught.