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The International Psychogeriatric Association shares opportunities to improve worldwide geriatric care.

Patients with cancer are at increased risk for both suicidal ideation and completed suicide. The authors discuss factors contributing to this increase in both biological and psychological realms.

Resistance to climate change often comes from the same place: denial.

What socio-cultural events impacted the older LGBTQ+ generations, and how do they inform their current mental health status?

Neuropsychiatric manifestations of Huntington disease can present decades before the motor symptoms become apparent, making the role of the psychiatrist all the more important.

Are current systems of mental health care alienating children and adults from the meaning inherent in their own emotional difficulties?

Leaders are struggling to justly distribute the coveted vaccine, as their are many vexing ethical issues surrounding COVID-19.

A synthesis of quantitative reviews on the relationship between cannabis use and psychosis.

Before starting to prescribe stimulants to every adult who cannot concentrate, it is important to take a closer look at the research.

Should a patient at the end of her life have access to psilocybin, even if it’s illegal?

A new study provides guidance for clinicians discussing the risks of ADHD medications with their pregnant patients.

The COVID-19 outbreak will eventually end, but public health experts expect this will not be the last pandemic. Will we have learned the right lessons so we can more successfully weather the next one?

Psilocybin may be useful for examining interactions between serotonin-dopamine systems and various psychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia.

Every phase of the COVID-19 pandemic brings new ethical challenges.

A high-powered lawyer faces her toughest opponent yet: mental illness stigma.

The rise and fall of a brilliant medical pioneer.

During the pandemic, Albert Camus’ existential novels have become newly popular—and with good reason.

A study finds that testing genetic variations can predict outcomes and medication blood levels in patients with depression.

Catharsis expressed in a pen, it was a tool to get through the hard times, even medical school.

My life pasted on his wall to analyze, a flash of insight came to me: Training had begun.

The story of depression, through time and around the world.

The chief medical officer of Karuna shares his thoughts exclusively with Psychiatric Times.

Psychiatrists face diagnostic puzzles almost every day. Find out how one clinician cracked a tough case.

Many patients with bipolar and other psychiatric disorders believe it is better to wait to address cigarette and other nicotine use. Here is why that is not necessarily the case.

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There are many reasons to look forward, armed with lessons learned and new research on the horizon.

The FDA has approved the New Drug Application for a once-daily ADHD treatment.

Providing quality mental health care in all treatment settings requires one crucial element: teamwork.

A case report and literature review of intrathecal methotrexate-induced mania.

If approved, this formulation of sodium oxybate will be the first once-nightly oxybate treatment for daytime sleepiness.