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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.

Among the innovations presented at the 2019 APA meeting: voice analytics for detecting and monitoring mood, and smartphone and web-based passive data as a digital biomarker for mental health disorders.

How safe and effective are mental health apps? What’s the impact of social media on youth? Insights here from presenters at APA 2019.

All together, right now, no matter what it takes-only this attitude can unite our response to the climate catastrophe that is the imminent consequence of our many small everyday actions.

By building a practice model that we enjoy, it enhances our ability to “cure sometimes, treat often, and comfort always.”

People-staff and patients both-confide secrets to strangers. We all need to unburden in a way that won’t come back to bite us.

The challenges of using social media can be as numerous as the benefits.

The Internet has transformed the way we get information. It is no surprise that finding health information online is a common activity.

This article discusses the risks of supporting versus withholding support for a patient’s disability claim and six key definitions psychiatrists need to understand when they are asked to support such a claim.

Numbers don’t tell the whole story, but gaining a better sense of the frequency, risks, and impact on patients’ quality of life can help improve treatment efforts and enhance outcomes.

Sometimes the work we are called to do is not what one traditionally expects. Be receptive to the “reason”-when the Sherpa knocks. More in this Portrait of a Psychiatrist.

Finding the right dosage of a psychotropic may be notoriously time consuming, but thought should be granted to the sexually dimorphic expression of CYP450 enzymes when prescribing medication. 

There has been significant improvement in the outcome of many malignancies, which have required balancing anti-tumor immunity and immune toxicity.

There’s an old joke about change: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but the light bulb really has to want to change.

HBOT can bring about dramatic improvement in many neurological conditions for which we have had very little to offer other than palliative care.

Winter had not yet fallen. A crimson tide of red leaves rained down from the heavens...

A series aimed at engaging prominent individuals who have made meaningful criticisms of psychiatry and have offered constructive alternative perspectives. First interview: Allen Frances, MD, Chair of the DSM-IV Task Force.

To many Lao, the concepts of mental illness and spirituality are tightly intertwined.

You don’t need to be a tech wizard to help patients and offer guidance on digital mental health tools.

Even as antidepressants improve mood, they can worsen sleep-and poor sleep is both a symptom and a cause of depression.