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How can a greater emphasis on valued experiences both promote well-being and alleviate stress in patients?

In this Special Report, clearly delineate the clinical context of selective psychoses.

Can we borrow terminology to help identify—and address—the mental issues associated with gun violence?

In this installment of the Around the Practice custom video program, doctors discussed management of narcolepsy.

June is Pride month. Here’s why clinicians should be focusing on transgender and nonbinary patients all 12 months of the year.

Is a picture really worth a thousand words? And, if so, is it what is needed to make a difference in gun violence reduction?

There are only three kinds of people in the world, those who are good at math and those who aren’t.

Clinicians are trained in how to help patients with substance use disorders—but what happens when the individual with a substance use disorder is a loved one?

Adjunctive metformin in bipolar disorder. Researchers performed a randomized clinical trial of treating insulin resistance to improve clinical outcomes in treatment-resistant bipolar depression.

What are the differences in epidemiological and clinical characteristics of bipolar disorder between the sexes?

How can we help this unique patient population thrive? Experts weigh in at the 2022 APA Annual Meeting.

Progress is dependent on evaluating where you have been, examining what you have done, and considering how you can do better.

If only the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium had reached Uvalde before the elementary school shooting there…

Experts discuss the role of motivation and willpower in ADHD at the 2022 APA Annual Meeting.

An expert discusses the effects of long COVID on the brain at the 2022 APA Annual Meeting.

Psychiatrists may be in a unique position to offer valuable commentary on political and societal concerns, so long as they adhere to the Goldwater Rule.

Patient violence calls for increased safety precautions.

“A quotidian life could be transformed by the majesty of the summit. There would be pain to suffer, but not the variety that debilitates—rather, a pain that runs from head to toe and shouts that you are truly alive.”

Is it ADHD—or something else? The importance of careful assessment for the proper diagnosis and effective treatment of the third most common mental health disorder worldwide.

Psychiatrists have valuable insights on political and societal issues that can be shared with the psychiatric community.

In this CME, review the clinical, legal, and ethical aspects of the civil commitment for substance use disorders.

We need more heroes like this man.

What are the benefits of early and comprehensive intervention for patients in their first episode of a serious mental illness?

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention collaborates with Most Days, a mental health app, to provide suicide prevention expertise and content. Learn more about the partnership here.

Have you heard of the Savannah Bananas baseball team?

A psychiatrist reflects on society's catatonic state.

Sometimes poetry can help in processing tragedies and traumas.