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Transgender and gender-diverse youth experience higher rates of depression, suicidal behaviors, and self-injury than their cisgender peers. Here's what you need to know.

Minority mental health needs to be brought up to par with general mental health before we can move forward.

“The acute and long-term psychological consequences of this tragedy will require large-scale aid.”

New Make-A-Wish study gives eye-opening insight into the mental and emotional impact of wish-granting for children battling critical illnesses.

PTSD is more prevalent in women than in men. What are the biological, psychosocial, and cultural factors that may explain why?

An elderly psychoanalyst and his young patient find that their lives—and their pain—intersect in a most unorthodox analysis.

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Strategy highlights plans of action to address untreated addiction, overdose epidemic.

A recent study found a negative association between children with ADHD and health eating patterns.

Sex and gender, influenced by genetics, epigenetics, and environmental/social stressors, must be considerations in evaluating every patient.

One basketball player endorses the therapeutic potential of tattoos.

The most common issues during the COVID-19 pandemic included stress, anxiety.

Many physicians dread phone calls and technical assistance from OCR investigators. But when it comes to the release of information, rigorous compliance is critical.

How do we address the growing crisis of health care worker mental health?

We must prioritize youth mental health for a flourishing and resilient American future.

What should be done with billionaires?

Doctors share their experiences with telepsychiatry in an academic department of psychiatry that led to significant expansion of clinical services and greater administrative efficiency.

How one mother of a child with autism helped countless others better understand the autistic experience.

One author shares his experience with suicidal, psychotic depression and the life events that he connects to its origins.

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Sidney Zisook, MD, lists these as the top 8 issues in MDD.

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Researchers performed a randomized controlled trial of a high n-3, low n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid diet in bipolar disorder.

Catch up on all the latest from the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Annual Meeting & Exposition.

How can we treat Russia’s narcissism?

Lithium for bone health? Researchers performed a retrospective cohort study to evaluate the effects of lithium on risk of osteoporosis in bipolar disorder.

How have William Wordsworth's ideas about creative visualization influenced cognitive behavioral therapy in contemporary psychiatry?

How can music help support mental health in patients with cancer and the development of cancer-fighting solutions?

Reflections from a child and adolescent psychiatrist in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.