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The genetics of dementia, dyslipidemia, and diabetes may hold the key to preventive therapy.

This special report on controversies in psychiatry examines the pros and cons of assisted outpatient treatment and also antidepressant use in pregnancy.

Here: common misconceptions about assisted outpatient treatment--and how this tool can help selected mentally ill patients who are most difficult to treat.

The authors examine legal and ethical challenges for the psychiatrist when a defendant who is incompetent to stand trial declines to take prescribed psychotropic medication.

This article summarizes the risks of untreated psychiatric illness during pregnancy as well as the risks and benefits of antidepressant use.

In the neuropsychiatric disorders PANS and PANDAS, we observe childhood illness with relationships between psychiatric symptoms, infection, and inflammation. Here are keys to early identification and treatment.

At Psychiatric Times, it has long been our goal to publish cutting-edge information from the frontiers of psychiatry. In this this spirit, we welcome Dr. Thomas G. Schulze, one of the world’s leading experts on psychiatric genetics to our Editorial Board.

Here: suggested strategies for assessment and management of this circadian sleep disorder commonly seen in adolescents.

Overbooking airline seats and bumping travelers is legal but the practice backfired on a recent United flight. Is civility dead?

Here: a review of the scientific evidence relevant to the use of classic hallucinogens in the treatment of substance use disorders.

These 2 psychiatrists who recently passed away left the world a better place.

Apparently therapists can fake their own online reviews these days. So much for the ethical ethicist.

Access to illicit drugs is now as easy as a few swipes on a smartphone. Here's a primer for clinicians who aren't well acquainted with this trend and who aren’t familiar with the many substances themselves.

The authors outline the ingredients for the transformation of mental health care in America.

Introduce yourself, shake hands, sit down. Always sit down. Then ask for permission...

Functional remediation therapy addresses the cognitive problems of the nearly 50% of patients who remain impaired even when euthymic.

What is the possibility that the very illness we’re trying to improve is getting worse-with treatment?

Marijuana-related problems fall well within the scope of psychiatric practice: many patients use marijuana, which is likely to affect their psychiatric symptoms and response to treatment.

A psychiatrist realizes he is completely powerless against his patient's opiate addiction.

The caffeine in your morning cup of java could pack a neuroprotective punch.

Creativity should not be seen as “optional” in psychiatry. Rather, it helps us to approach clinical problems in new ways.

There are no simple solutions to the plight of the terminally ill patient. With commentary by Cynthia Geppert, MD.

The authors shed light on a disorder that is difficult to diagnose and manage, and offer insights on how to develop an appropriate treatment plan.

Renewed interest and emerging systematic data have highlighted the frequency and pattern of catatonic presentations in psychiatric and medical settings, including in critical illness.

Psychiatrists need to understand the patient’s cancer diagnosis, staging, treatments and their adverse effects, and prognosis to appreciate the challenges the patient is coping with throughout treatment as well as survivorship or end-of-life.

I loved being a psychiatrist. Note the past tense.

The results of a phase 3 trial demonstrated significant benefit over placebo.

Migraine, tension-type, cluster...test your clinical acumen about headaches with these 16 questions.

Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and this may indeed be the most telling legacy of the lost art of healing.

Culture is far from having outlived its usefulness for psychiatry.