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Treatments for borderlinity and bipolarity are quite different. What if just 3 items from a standard screening questionnaire could increase your diagnostic certainty by 30%?

For up to 60% of patients with bipolar disorder, simply treating their mood symptoms is not enough to help them return to a full life.

The nightmarish reality of psychosis is vividly detailed by Deborah Danner, a woman with self-described schizophrenia, recently shot to death by a New York City policeman.

What are the key elements of attenuated psychosis syndrome? Answer this question and more in our quiz.

Are you up-to-date on somatic treatments for major depression? How about the optimal approach to resistant MDD? Take this quiz and find out.

Health care and medical education must march ever onward-although recently there has been a growing uprising among the ranks of experienced physicians.

A recent meta-analysis shows this agent is useful in the prevention and treatment of antipsychotic-induced weight gain.

A “high-tech” approach to relapse prevention in patients with schizophrenia.

Targeted mineral supplementation has the potential to augment treatment response and yield improvement in clinical symptoms.

Integrative psychiatry helps us push deeper into the testing of metabolic, gut, and brain features, which seems more fitting, given our role as physicians.

These methods facilitate deep rest, help reset circadian rhythm, and release endogenous opioids and cannabinoids that help reduce anxiety and enhance a sense of well-being for people with PTSD.

Potential benefits and benign safety profile of omega-3s indicate a promising intervention.

Carrie Fisher used her force to fight the stigma of mental illness --not with a light saber, but with insight.

Can't keep up with the literature? Here's some help.

Here: a look at the associations between negative psychological states and CV health, physiologic and health behavior mechanisms, and ways to diagnose and treat depression and anxiety disorders.

With antipsychotics, my once-brilliant child can again speak, write, read, and maintain hygiene and has regained motor functioning.

As our understanding of the brain and new technologies have rapidly evolved, such an extensive text on psychiatric ethics is clearly timely.

Here's a case that illustrates the potential for alprazolam to create a dementia-like appearance-not to mention a premature aging of the patient.

What are the limitations and advantages of biomedicine and Asian medicine? When is it more beneficial to use one or the other? Guidelines for combining the two?

Here’s a very unscientific survey of this year’s most meaningful issues is psychiatry. Quite a year.

Dr. Moffic remembers psychiatrists whose lives provided a model for the wider field of psychiatry in 2016. They are truly "gone but not forgotten."

How do meaning, memory, emotions and, especially, human suffering arise from the brain?

Bolted to the bedroom loft, twenty feet high with lacquered sides and honey colored risers polished with pine-scented wax-these are the rungs I climb to the feather bed, candle, and bottle of red wine...

Is it time to think outside the light box for treatment of seasonal depression?

A new protocol makes light therapy an option for patients with bipolar depression.

Since ancient times, doctors have shown a good deal of interest in identifying seasonal patterns in the incidence of symptoms and disease. Could the holiday blues be a myth?

Be cautious: not all obsessive thinking is OCD.

Two recent clinical trials of opioid medication for depression and suicidality highlight the role of brain opioid systems in depression.

Which anticonvulsant has shown the most promise in quelling antipsychotic-induced weight gain? This question and more in our quiz.

Which symptom can help distinguish bipolar from unipolar depression? How does repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation compare with ECT? Answer these questions and more.