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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.

It would be logical to attribute the surge of suicides in the military to simultaneous prolonged engagement in combat, repeated deployments, and attendant stress. But studies have failed to connect deployments to suicide risk.

Westworld-the HBO pitiless purgatory where everything goes worng!

From a psychodynamic and neurobiological perspective, the recommendation to screen all pregnant and postpartum women for depression and anxiety falls short of what is actually needed to improve the lives of many mothers and their infants and children.

Learning to listen, understanding the importance of what we hear, and knowing we must understand before we speak or act, are among the psychiatrist’s most important skills.

In a tale of two cases, the author comes to realize he is but one agent of change in the lives of his patients.

A brief update--and some practical advice--about MOC, whether you love it or hate it.

Why learn neuroanatomy? The goal for the physician is to be excitedly engaged in an ongoing process of expanding his or her knowledge about the brain and human behavior.

Although many mysteries of sexual pathophysiology await illumination, patients may expect mental health professionals to provide guidance about their persistent sexual disappointments. Insights here.

"If I only had a heart."

In recent years, violence has unfortunately become the tragic touchstone that too often draws the public’s attention to mental illness.

At three breaths before death a blue latex hand pulls out a trach tube, a blade skims over the zipped up hole, and droplets of blood are sucked into skin...

A psychiatrist's chess game with his patient didn't go the way he expected.

A rare glimpse into the bipolar life, where behavioral markers often come in 3’s.

Look how close we are to the ideal: free online bipolar psychotherapy that is as effective as seeing a live therapist.

The therapist "goes underwater" with the patient to find what lies in her mind.

On the risk of accepting the practice of psychiatric diagnosis from afar.

Can cardiovascular fitness help older adults ward off dementia?

The Psychiatric Transition Program at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego is a specialized first-episode psychosis program that provides coordinated specialty care to active-duty service members with serious mental illness.