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Preterm birth and low birth weight can heighten the risk by at least 2-fold.

For a long time, we have relied to a large extent on phenomenology and diagnosis to plan treatment strategies, but advancements in psychiatry are changing that for the better.

Dr. Torous looks at the pros and cons of digital psychiatry with the goal of framing the opportunities and challenges for the year ahead.

Technology holds great promise to improve the future of mental health. Here: an overview of the types of techology-based solutions currently available.

Telepsychiatry-based Cultural Sensitivity Collaborative Treatment is a promising and effective model to improve treatment of depression in underserved racial and ethnic minority populations. Details here.

How is technology affecting psychiatric practice and addressing barriers in the clinical care of our patients?

To explore the evolving role of smartphones in psychiatric care, this article focuses on schizophrenia as a disease-specific example of how new research and technologies are already being used to improve care.

Take this quiz on one of the most controversial diagnoses in pain management.

Tracking and measuring the nation’s health is no easy undertaking. How are we doing?

Here's a hit list of publications devoted to psychotherapy topics; to issues in genomic medicine; the impact of technology, and burnout on the practice of medicine; and to more traditional clinical articles addressing diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Psychiatrists who have died in 2017-even those who posed a challenge--deserve to be remembered.

A deep dive into the role of stress in the manifestation of depressive symptoms.

My doctor-wife squeezes her needle-nose tweezers and lifts the tiny knots high enough to snip with surgical scissors...

High treatment failure rates make it critical for prescribers to know how to safely and effectively switch antidepressants to ensure patient-treatment targets are met.

This year we asked about the best and worst things relating to our field. As always, we received a diverse group of responses.

An inside account of what many of our service men and women endure in order to serve their country.

The author shares his views on important topics in 2017 in the field of psychiatry.

“We were surprised to find that SSRIs and other antidepressants aren’t very effective at keeping depressed patients out of hospital.”

Advances in digital publishing that allow instantaneous dissemination of changes at minimal cost have paved the way towards the adoption of a continuous improvement model for DSM, in which revisions are pegged to specific scientific advances.

Among the topics covered in this year's noteworthy studies: lithium and suicide prevention, mixed depression, and light therapy.

Imagination and psychosis are different categories of experience, and should not be confused or conflated.

These common conditions may affect the risk of Alzheimer disease or the ability to cope with daily activities.

If history serves as a guide, psychologists are likely to obtain prescriptive authority in significant portions of the country within the next 10 years.

What underlies the higher prevalence of Alzheimer disease among older African Americans?

This Special Report on treatment resistance provides expert guidance on how to treat patients who are still unresponsive after multiple unsuccessful attempts at intervention for some common mental disorders.

How to help the one-third of patients with panic disorder who have chronic, persistent symptoms?

Trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy, pharmacotherapy, and combinations thereof. Expert guidance here.

While treatment of bipolar disorder challenging , the notion that it is treatment resistant is contradicted by longitudinal and treatment research that indicates high rates of remission over time, moderate rates of recovery, and significant response to structured treatments tailored to symptoms.

Dialectical behavior therapy may be particularly effective in mitigating biologically-driven vulnerabilities, and zonisamide and lamotrigine may play a role.

This article focuses on treatment resistance to medications in adult male and non-pregnant adult female outpatients with any type of DSM-5 diagnosed bipolar disorder.