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CBT for Psychosis
How to make cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis feasible in a busy practice with limited resources.
Update on Mood Disorders: Implications for Practice
How generalizable are the results of depression treatment studies? Which factors predict readmission and length of stay in inpatients with mood disorders?
Psychiatry and Its Dichotomies
To neglect the cultural components of any given diagnosis or behavior, to ignore the role of culture-based individual attitudes, beliefs or practices in the face of adversity, would be a disservice.
At Last . . . I Hope!
The CDC and FDA have -- at last -- recognized that there might be something of a problem in the way opiates are prescribed!
Using Motivational Interviewing to Improve Health Behaviors in Psychotic Patients
Broaching the subject of changing behaviors can be daunting. Motivational interviewing may make these conversations easier.
Characteristics of Completed Suicides
In this study, about 70% of patients who completed suicide had recently sought treatment. Will you recognize those at risk?
Treatment Options in Late-Life Treatment-Resistant Depression
This article sheds light on the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to TRD management in adults 60 years and older.
Resiliency and Creativity in the Face of Great Odds
Is creativity augmented or inhibited by mental illness? Insights from 4 case studies of troubled yet brilliant minds.
Challenging Patients
What factors lie at the heart of the patient/physician relationship?
Über Coca
He didn’t notice snow falling in the Krankenhaus courtyard the night he fell in love. A mere intern, castrated by Jew-hating med school professors...
Detection and Intervention for Adolescents With Early Psychosis: Promising Approaches
The key to identification of prodromal psychosis may lie in community-based outreach.
Biomarkers, Personalized Medicine, and Schizophrenia
The personalized medicine approach is predicated upon a greater understanding of the biology of illness and how it plays out-uniquely and specifically-for each individual patient.
A Multidisciplinary Approach to First-Episode Psychosis
First-episode psychosis cases are presented here using the RAISE study model-individual sessions, family psycho-education, social advancement in school work, and an expert psychiatrist prescriber.
How Mental Health Apps Are Regulated-or Are They?
Is there clinical evidence for the use of digital tools like smartphone apps for schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses?
Identifying Mild Neurocognitive Disorder in Older Patients
Depression can be accompanied by cognitive symptoms, but the nature of the relationship between these symptom categories is multifaceted.
The Impact of Patient Suicide on Clinicians
What are the effects on the clinician who loses a patient? How to respond?
Treatment Challenges of Late Life Psychosis
When treating psychosis, dementia, addiction, and other psychiatric illnesses in older patients, clinicians must be prepared for a multitude of scenarios.
All to Do About Aging!
Therapeutic techniques can enhance psychological resilience and may help patients improve their quality of life. Here's how.
Fish Oil for Bipolar Disorder in Children
An important alternative to pharmaceutical treatments may be at hand.
Mother’s Day and Psychiatry
Hold the Folate With Adjunctive Lamotrigine
ADHD Associated With Video Game Addiction
Do you know the 7 criteria that can help identify those at risk for unhealthy online gaming?
Meditation, Managed Care, and Mental Health
In recent years, health care insurance companies (and the businesses that use them) have begun to invest in mindfulness research and programs What has happened to explain this development?
Accurate Diagnosis of ADHD in the Absence of Teacher Reports
How to make a DSM-IV–compliant diagnosis when the child’s behavior in school cannot be assessed.
New Treatment Guidelines for Antipsychotic Use in Dementia
When agitation and psychosis symptoms are severe, is an antipsychotic medication an option? Not always.
Of Blood and Truth
Ethics case quiz: A patient's inconsistent decisions regarding treatment are cause for concern. What to do?
Physician-Assisted Dying for Adolescents With Intractable Mental Illness?
How radically do we want to alter the physician’s traditional ethical obligations to the most vulnerable of patients?
Sexual Dysfunction, SSRIs, and Depression
Improvement in depressive symptoms appears to have a salutary effect on sexual function.
Extracurricular Activities for Early-Career Psychiatrists
With the standard aversion to moonlighting in the emergency department at the local hospital, lots of us have asked the same question: “What else can I do to pay the bills?”
Antipsychotics in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia
Is clozapine still the gold standard for treatment-resistant schizophrenia?