The pandemic has brought about uneasy feelings that can exacerbate mental illness and cause further mental health issues. In its current state, our mental health system is not prepared to deal with what may become a global mental health pandemic, but there are ways to address it.
A physician who is also long-term patient living with depression discusses a pervasive problem in the house of medicine.
While it may be challenging to differentiate between OCD and other anxiety disorders, using a multi-informant assessment and understanding the content of a patient’s fears is a fundamental start to outlining an effective treatment plan.
COVID-19 has spurred many changes leading to wider adoption of various technologies to support public health efforts. But even data collected for the greater good can have unintended negative or punitive consequences.
It might be advisable to bring in psychiatrists to keep the peace and not federal troops.
Familiarity with self-disorders is an indispensable tool in diagnosing a patient suspected for developing schizophrenia. Such knowledge improves communication with the patient and may serve as a starting point for therapeutic intervention.
Frank A. Clark, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Medicine – Greenville, SC, presents a timely slice of poetic history.
Fangs dripping of bigotry hasten to attack human black deer. Such is a line in the work of this African American psychiatrist.
A patient's sleep deprivation started to affect her overall well-being and compromised her ability to enjoy life.
In just 3 months, the virus has changed the lives of our psychiatric patients and of psychiatry forever. What are the next best steps?
Psychomotor speed may be a relevant target in studies of the immune system and its impact on the brain in patients with schizophrenia.
Last year, the FDA approved esketamine, a rapidly acting adjunctive intranasal therapy for treatment-resistant depression. Now, researchers are exploring its efficacy in major depressive disorder.
There is inadequate information regarding optimal antipsychotic doses in the treatment of acute schizophrenia that balance efficacy and safety. This article helps you get it right.
Amidst the fear, worry, and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, each day seems to bring news that is worse than the day before.
Frontline residents and fellows complain of “being forced to work harder than I can handle,” “being pushed to my limits,” “no availability of PPEs,” etc.
How can psychiatry constructively address our nation’s crisis?
A patient with refractory MDD continued to suffer and feel as though her life was turned upside down, despite treatment. Learn the outcome of the case.
Emergency Psychiatry: Principles and Practice has something for everyone and is easily applicable to emergency and primary care.
Living with a mental illness is all too often accompanied by poverty and social disadvantage, which contribute to shortened life spans and reduced quality of life. However, there approaches for addressing many of the preventable causes of poor health and mortality in this patient population.
Policy initiatives can improve both physical and mental health care quality and outcomes for those with serious mental illnesses.
Mental health conditions are highly prevalent in homeless populations. Further research and advocacy are needed to address the obstacles that homeless individuals encounter in accessing mental health care.
The Navajo population are vulnerable to lung disease due to decades of exposure to uranium mines and the use of wood or coal for heat and cooking. It is now vulnerable to COVID-19.
Have we learned anything? Looking back at the Spanish flu epidemic as the world deals with the COVID pandemic.
Without normative attachment, children can move into their middle years without the tools to succeed in peer relationships, school, and extracurricular activities, opening the door to perils in adolescence.
Thoughts on how we celebrate with our patients when they achieve a milestone in their work or convey a more finely tuned awareness of themselves.
A recent study shows that meditative practice is surprisingly effective for bipolar depression. The late poet helps explain why.
Despite the high levels of resilience, refugee populations are vulnerable and require that the health system continues to provide care during crises.
The economic fallout of the pandemic may continue for years resulting in prolonged unemployment and an increasing percentage of the population with untreated serious mental health problems.
As we get past the surge (fingers crossed) of COVID-19, the two most striking pathologies we are seeing are a much greater volume than usual of delirium as well as persistent encephalopathy.
Awais Aftab, MD, interviews this highly respected psychiatrist and genetics researcher, who has been further catapulted into fame over the past two decades through his widely read philosophical commentaries.
