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Soaked in Mexican sunshine he’s powered back to the Berkshires, all the world’s yellow compressed into a firecracker...

Many people with psychiatric disorders engage in creative activities, from informal hobbies to highly accomplished careers, but some avoid treatment entirely. Two cases illustrate a nuanced approach that integrates medical knowledge with patients’ perspectives.

Research published more than 25 years ago was already reporting problems with opioid analgesics.

The author shines a light on a preventative treatment for both children and adults.

In the final part of our discussion with Janae Sharp, Janae further discusses the loss of her physician husband to suicide and how best to support others through grief.

Researchers may have cracked the code to the mystery of depression, inflammation, and C-reactive protein.

In the second part of our Psyched! podcast interview, Janae Sharp discusses why she feels she has been a different kind of voice for physician suicide awareness.

Does moderate- to high-intensity aerobic and strength exercise training slow cognitive decline over the long term? New research might surprise you.

The first clinical trial of probiotics in bipolar disorder is out, and the results look promising.

A review of systemic medications for dermatologic diseases describes a wide range of adverse events, which range from mild and reversible to permanent and potentially fatal.

The impetus to consider inflammation as potentially relevant to the pathoetiology of domain-based psychopathology (eg, anhedonia) and/or mental disorders, is provided by a confluence of factors discussed here.

The studies reviewed in this article provide a new model for clinical practice-one where the treatment of depressed patients is not governed by trial and error, but rather where patients can access new interventions sooner.

A drug once seen as a widespread danger to society is now experiencing renewed interest as a treatment for medical conditions, including a number of mental health conditions. This brief review explores 5 key issues clinicians can consider when encountering the therapeutic cannabis user.

To understand the experiences and needs of the aging LGBTQ population, it is important to consider the culture, politics, and social norms that existed when these elders came of age. Clinicians can play a vital role by creating a safe and open environment that allows people to be themselves.

In children who have a first-degree relative with bipolar disorder, the severity of symptoms predicts whether they will transition to the illness.

Regardless of the symptoms that a child presents with, careful monitoring for hypomania is needed if the problems are significant and the parent has bipolar disorder.

Four psychiatrists have joined the distinguished members of our Editorial Board. And our Editorial Director passes the torch.

Psychogenic purpura is a rare and poorly understood syndrome. However, early recognition and intervention can lead to remissions which may last years.

Why do positive emotional feelings make us feel more connected to others?

The US is facing the largest epidemic of opioid overdose deaths in its history. This CME addresses issues associated with the medication-assisted treatment protocol for opioid use disorder.

It is time for the psychiatric and wider medical world to embrace lessons from the growing science of resilience to treat the wide range of stress-related medical and psychiatric disorders more effectively.

I wanted this to be like a fairy tale walk in the woods before kids, careers, blood clots and bone mets...

Why aren’t we Americans as happy as we should be, given all the wonderful things we have in our lives?

A simple diagnostic test for Lewy body dementia?

With greater expertise in user experiences, psychiatrists can position themselves to more strongly guide technology companies in building and implementing better apps.

DSM focuses on the difference between Bipolar I and II. But there’s another way to categorize the illness that may have more relevance to treatment.

How many people who take an antidepressant truly have severe difficulties when they try to taper off? Or, is it “all in their mind”?

Immunologic processes may play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of psychiatric disorders, opening an entire new avenue for novel strategies to prevent and treat psychiatric disease.

In addition to psychosocial problems, there is a growing realization that PTSD may also lead to or exacerbate chronic medical health conditions.

This 2-part Special Report devotes itself to the new inflammatory world that clinicians and researchers find themselves in. Most of our prior and current preconceptions about the role of immunity and mental illness have been-and are-wrong.