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Migrant children were being endangered, with potentially devastating effects on their mental health and development, and we requested policy changes.

Medical professionals don’t want to prescribe too many pain killers, which may contribute to the epidemic of opioid misuse, yet they don’t want patients to needlessly suffer.

Each moment of each day we make choices that can affect our brain health-our challenge is, without judgment, to increase the choices that promote a healthy brain.

Protein insolubility has been found to occur in a subset of patients with schizophrenia.

The first therapy to target the primary mechanism of the disease is safe and well tolerated, say study investigators.

A penetrating, deep, and intrepid exploration of Szasz’s oeuvre, and the indelible impact he has had on the practice of psychiatry, in this country and abroad.

The fallout from burnout: alcohol dependence, binge eating, sleep disorders, and general ill health.

Hearing loss before the development of language has a major impact on communication, identity, and social development, as well as how mental health symptoms present.

Pharmacogenetic testing can provide helpful guidance in the choice of treatment and should be interpreted as a decision-support tool to assist in thoughtful implementation of good clinical care.

Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent in the general population, particularly in those with medical illnesses such as diabetes.

These thumbnail sketches of the articles in this Special Report produce an impressionistic sketch of the meaning of the word complicated in psychiatric practice.

While conversational agent technology is growing rapidly, the various technologies (chatbots) might not yet be fully equipped to help patients with clinical needs.

This book focuses on Islamophobia’s multifaceted nature, its broad and specific clinical challenges, and its connections with the current political realities of a convulsed world.

This new FDA order now allows patients who need and want ECT, as well as practitioners who perform it, to breathe a sigh of relief.

The pleasures of a story unfolded serially are ancient and ubiquitous.

The counseling environment is regarded within clinical literature as having an effect on a patient’s sense of well-being.

This CME discusses the opioid-like effects of loperamide and kratom and raises awareness of potential dangers associated with use.

Atypical antipsychotics play an important role in acute bipolar depression and mixed states, but one is an especially researched option for children.

An impressive and ever-expanding research literature exists on the topic of pharmacogenomics. Despite this, only four genes have been vetted as clinically actionable.

Always ask the name of their dog.

She was only 21. After "it" happened, I held a lecture on depression. I mentioned her at the end as a tribute. I longed for closure. More in this Portrait of a Psychiatrist.

Despite the outpouring of support, are survivors of mass shootings getting the care they really need?

These 10 domains will help you determine if functional impairment exists, if it can be reversed, and if the patient can return to work.

The impact of school shootings extends far beyond the directly affected school and community. What can we do to help survivors and family members?

Just recently, an adolescent patient refused to meet with me individually, saying, “People from your country kill us.” But we survived-as a country and as a family.

The tender moments that call for true empathy are often failed by the demands of the traditional physician-patient relationship.

Recent findings could pave the way for targeted therapies for conditions associated with hypervigilance and recurrent distressing memories.

How many of us, during clinical encounters with patients, focus on their families, their social communities, their sources of human contact and support?

Our job as clinicians, our privilege, is to help our patients stay alive until they can engage and benefit from good treatment.

A study aimed to find out if cognitive training exercises that can boost attentional control and working memory could also influence emotional functioning.