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Is it possible to use cognitive testing, which is brief, easily performed, reliable, and noninvasive, to identify individuals at risk for psychosis?

A rare genetic disorder may have unrecognized psychological consequences.

More than half of physicians believe that seeking psychiatric care would jeopardize their employment. What can be done?

This CME describes current strategies and recent advances in treatment.

Which traditions will keep us afloat during the pandemic, and which ones need to go?

Researchers explored reactivity to a panel of EBV proteins in patients with schizophrenia, thought to be associated with cognitive impairment.

How do men versus women with schizophrenia fare clinically, functionally, and neuropsychologically over the long term?

As physicians first, psychiatrists must consider the big picture, without reflexive and thoughtless prescriptions for psychotropics—even if many, including medical professionals, assume that is all we do.

Still in its infancy, the field of technology in psychiatry is rapidly growing and holding much promise in diagnosis, symptom tracking, behaviorial reinforcement, and a host of other useful tools.

The shortage of mental health care providers is a crisis, but psychiatrists have a potentially powerful ally.

If we had 1 extra minute with our patients, what question would we ask?

Unable to spend adequate time with patients, residents are not learning to function as doctors, but merely as technicians for the human body.

Are there differences in the clinical course of bipolar I and bipolar II disorder with and without comorbid alcohol use disorder?

What are the differences between disorders like OCD and pandemic anxiety?

Over the last 9 months, we have seen heroism, innovation, and precise science, performed under unbelievable pressure. The result is no short of miraculous.

During the month of February, we will publish important stories commemorating Black History Month.

25 years have gone and past, but is reconnecting with a distant loved one still possible?

Imagine working with a young patient showing signs of psychosis for the past 6 weeks. Your initial assessment appears to rule out medical- or substance-induced etiologies, yet symptoms persist. What's a psychiatrist to do?

When concern for a patient is not so severe that a clinician feels compelled to call the police, there are options.

As a discipline, emergency psychiatry has widened its role, especially following the enormous mental health fallout from the pandemic and the shift of police and first-responder interventions.

Although clinicians and patients may wish otherwise, the comorbidity of ADHD and bipolar disorder needs to be considered.

Selfhood: a complex and continuously evolving identity that is anchored in the patient's history and dependent on language and memory. But there is so much more.

When meeting patients online, mental-health practitioners must confront a host of issues.

Does the typical malpractice insurance policy cover COVID-related claims? That question and more answered.

The cultural gap between clinicians and students from mainland China is a barrier inhibiting productive sessions.

The American Heart Association released a statement recognizing the importance of the relationship between mental well-being and cardiovascular disease.

Remaining in the current moment is a good way to avoid toxic negative thoughts.

With opioid use disorder, a tiny fraction of young patients are getting treatment, which would not be acceptable for any other medical condition.

Schizophrenia is associated with cognitive impairment, and treatment of cognitive dysfunction in these patients represents an area of unmet need. What is the role of exercise?

Nearly half of the prescriptions for benzodiazepine among older adults are potentially inappropriate, so how best to do no harm?