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Genes may hold the answer to the puzzling comorbidity of migraines and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Is depression the same today as it was in the 17th century? Is it the same thing in Nigeria as it is in the United States? One of the foremost historians of psychiatry weighs in.

Sometimes the war represented more of a hiatus in ongoing research, which was later resumed. In other cases, it led to displacement or imprisonment.

A brain-based perspective could explain how and why psychotherapy leads to enduring change.

The emergence of epigenetic models has generated a surge of optimism, opening new possibilities for psychiatric intervention.

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A recent study dives into the data.

Zuranolone showed statistically significant improvement in depressive symptoms in this latest study.

This renowned psychiatrist is donating a portion of the proceeds from his book sales to help stop US military veteran suicides.

The Drug Policy Reform Act, introduced today, intends to decriminalize drug use and possession, providing health-centered approaches and rehabilitation instead.

With a broader and multifaceted understanding of pain, patient care can move from a focus on eradicating pain, as based on objective pain scores, to improving the patient’s quality of life, while simultaneously decreasing pain to a level that is acceptable to the individual patient.

Simple but powerful strategies for drawing on patients’ existing character strengths and long-term goals.

In this CME, learn how to design interventions to promote resilience, study their relative effectiveness, and implement them accordingly.

What should residency programs be doing to address current traumas?

Patients with terminal illnesses may choose to refuse treatment or even hasten their own deaths, but is that the same thing as suicide?

Is there such a thing as too many memory games?

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Although estimates vary, patients with cancer are at least twice as likely to die by suicide than people who do not have cancer. By identifying those at greatest risk, these treatment modalities can help support patients.

A Psychiatric Times point/counterpoint feature on electroconvulsive therapy elicited strong responses.

This is a rare opportunity for researchers and entrepreneurs from a variety of fields to conduct experiments in space.

Early-life stress can modify an individual's genetic code, leading to mental health problems later in life. But by understanding the science of epigenetics, psychiatrists can treat these conditions, and prevent intergenerational trauma.

Research data shows that ECT is often more effective than alternative treatments, and safe too.

ECT has been in use for decades, but does that mean it is safe or effective?

PMHNPs have years of experience as professional nurses, which serve to hone their clinical judgment and assessment skills.

We are all part of a team facing the monumental task of meeting the mental health needs of all Americans.

A clinical approach to detecting false allegations of abuse in child custody cases.

The uneasy relationship between psychiatry and the LGBTQI continues to evolve. How can it be influenced for the better?

This one-of-a-kind Alzheimer disease treatment targets the amyloid beta plaques in the brain, potentially slowing cognitive decline.