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An overview of the DSM diagnostic system, the medicalization of normal variants of human behavior, and physician-assisted suicide.

Here's why psychiatrists and other mental health professionals need to understand the relationship between cannabis and mental disorders.

This article speaks to the care with which ADHD must be diagnosed and managed to reduce the significant negative impact of the disorder on the individual, family, and society.

Physician-assisted suicide is now legal in several states. But none of the state statues mandates a mental health evaluation by a psychiatrist or psychologist before the writing of a lethal prescription by an attending physician.

My patient allowed me a glimpse into the suicidal mind. And, in that way, she taught me a lot.

The work of these military psychiatrists who passed away in recent years still has relevance for us.

Because patients who have psychiatric illnesses typically receive less frequent medical care, psychiatrists must aim to ensure appropriate monitoring of metabolic parameters when antipsychotic medications are used.

A quiz to help patients mitigate the perils of low back pain.

Helping patients who have significant medical illness as well as mental illness is a challenge, especially when the diagnosis is unclear. Hospital psychiatrists play a critical role in the management of these behaviorally compromised patients.

Psychosomatic medicine psychiatrists specialize in managing psychiatric effects of medical treatments and medications.

Supportive psychotherapy can serve as the first bridge out of social isolation and marginalization and addresses personality issues, such as deficits in character structure and defense mechanisms.

We’ve been waiting since 1953, the year chlorpromazine was introduced to the US as a revolutionary treatment for schizophrenia, for an active treatment for tardive dyskinesia that the FDA judged to be effective.

The human-animal relationship can provide insight into the patient’s ability to connect, to interact, and to show care and empathy. Plus, companion animals tend not to breach confidentiality.

Med school finals, ten backpack pounds of biochem hauled for months, my epiphany: I would never know more about glucose metabolism than that morning...

Here's a close look at the psychological toll of years of trauma among Syrian refugees.

Current research investigates new pathophysiologic mechanisms and lays the groundwork for redefining schizophrenia based on distinct medical subclasses-which may lead to more targeted and effective treatments. Details here.

Your patient is excited to be pregnant. She is currently on sertraline, and has been stable on this for many years. She is very insistent that she would like to stop her medication. What should you do?

The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) program: how it evolved, clinical applications, and goals.

How does a pituitary result in a psychiatric emergency? Read more clues to this clinical puzzle.

The looming specter of emotional and physical exhaustion in residency often takes hold well into a physician's career. So what are we doing about it?

A recent experience on street rounds offered a moment that brought this psychiatrist back to one of the main reasons she chose psychiatry as a profession.

Making a beginning on a work memoir is one way to enhance your mental health.

Poor Sigmund. Mrs. Freud gave him the slip.

One of the many facets of bipolar disorder is an energy problem-including at the neuronal level.

Despite increasing awareness of the cardiovascular risks, adequate treatment of the metabolic syndrome remains a persistent challenge.

In psychiatry, as in every field of medicine, there is still gender disparity in salary and promotion.

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.