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What treatments could handle both psychiatric emergencies and long-standings mental health conditions—in a hurry?

Too often, the medical issues associated with traumatic brain injury are mistakenly diagnosed as psychiatric disorders. A few simple questions and tests can elucidate the real culprit and lead to appropriate treatment.

Collaborative care guides care across disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, and primary care. The goal is to change practice, build community, and identify health professionals needing the most assistance.

According to Nora D. Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, drug use and overdose deaths have significantly increased since the outset of the pandemic. What made it worse?

Data presented at the 2021 APA Virtual Annual Meeting show promise for treating schizophrenia.

What’s a psychiatrist to do? An APA ethics panel at the Annual Meeting considered various dilemmas, including possible conflicts between physicians’ obligations to individual patients and their obligation to promote the public good.

Can depression be passed on to future generations, and if it can, how can treatment help?

One doctor at the APA Virtual meeting explains how ketamine can rebuild spine and synaptic proteins in the brain, but may be difficult to actually prescribe to patients.

The FDA approved a higher dose of naloxone to treat opioid overdose deaths.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has freed this formerly schedule II controlled substance.

The sexual side effects of psychiatric medications are troubling enough that some patients consider treatment cessation. The authors review 5 strategies for managing sexual dysfunction.

Sustainability is more than just cutting carbon emissions. It means creating a system where all of us can thrive—not just survive.

Looking to reduce youth initiation into tobacco products, the FDA takes steps against menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.

Sedation may not always be desirable, but it is difficult to avoid in psychiatry. Some of the most sedating medications are discussed.

This year’s theme is crucial to the role science plays in dealing with structural racism, a worldwide pandemic, and the inequities in terms of access to care for so many people.

Respect for Indigenous peoples and their knowledge is crucial to the resolution of climate change.

Antipsychotic-induced weight gain evolves over time, leads to chronic complications, and is very difficult to reverse. Pharmacologic interventions used to tackle weight gain are modestly effective and worth considering in certain cases.

Whether an effect is adverse or desired can be a function of the clinical situation.

New and noteworthy sessions fill the program at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, which enters its second year as a virtual session.

There is evidence for overlapping risk factors and symptomatology between ADHD and psychotic disorders. New research investigates the association between ADHD during childhood and the subsequent risk of developing a psychotic disorder.

The FDA cleared the way to use this deep transcranial magnetic stimulation system, which may be able to help treat depression in less than 5 minutes.

Powerful psychic defenses are keeping humanity from facing a number of interconnected crises. How can these psychic defenses be overcome?

Over the last year, we have compiled numerous videos about all aspects of psychiatry, medicine, and society. Check out a sampling here.

A recent study evaluated the everyday efficacy of this novel treatment for major depressive disorder.

Psychiatrists who want to understand white supremacy should watch this series…

Ronald W Pies, MD, considers the evidence from pathology textbooks—and answers the critics.

We need Earth Day every day.

A lawyer discusses how the legal system treats (and mistreats) those with mental illnesses.

A psychiatrist shares the pearls of his life, clinical and otherwise.

Justice in the form of humanity.