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Although a majority of states still permit capital punishment, this may not represent the true national mood: many of these states have not had an execution in more than 10 years.

What's the connection between fatigue and depression, and to what extent can residual symptoms of fatigue lead to worsened outcomes? Insights here.

We have criminalized mental health problems-a barbaric throwback to the dismal conditions before the Enlightenment.

If you haven’t seen the series or heard media coverage about it, the 13 reasons are a series of 13 audiotapes made by the character, Hannah Baker, to be listened to by the 13 people she felt in some way contributed to her decision to kill herself.

If larger trials confirm the strong antidepressant effects observed so far, botulinum toxin may become a standard therapeutic addition to the psychiatric armamentarium.

Do you think you have all the answers? For this quiz, you do.

This treatment is so implausible that scientists first used it as a placebo-before discovering it actually worked.

In Get Out, director/writer Justin Peele’s provocative debut, the bodies snatched are African American (mostly robust males); the cannibals of consciousness are white residents of an affluent Baltimore suburb, where the living is easy and the politics fashionably progressive.

In the midst of 6 presentations this year, the author notices the elephant in the room.

I was surfing a long board out past the place where you can still smell Coppertone when a ten foot wave smashed me down into darkness...

Sometimes it just doesn't pay to fight.

Have antipsychotic and placebo responses in acute schizophrenia changed over time?

Residency was going according to plan until a phone call changed everything.

Although high blood pressure may put patients at risk for dementia, a class of antihypertensives appears to have a preventive effect.

People with mood disorders (and those who care about them) are likely to experience a healing reconsideration of their own experiences as they read this book.

What do sudden cognitive disturbances, disorientation, and cloudiness of consciousness have in common? Take the quiz and learn more.

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...