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“Doctor, will you prescribe medical marijuana for my mother? I think it might help her agitation better than the medication you gave her last visit.”

It’s too bad that so many experts-in medicine and in other professions-can’t write for a lay audience. Here's some help.

But what if the patient was lying? It's hard to go to sleep at night and not wonder, “. . . what if I'm wrong?”

American psychiatry is on the cusp of recognizing and tackling both physician burnout and climate change.

Here's a review of a book about involuntary psychiatric commitment-- a major source of controversy when the public tries to understand who psychiatrists are and what we do.

Functional vs structural; melancholic vs non-melancholic; and hierarchy of treatment are the focus.

It's not about the specifics of preliminary studies about psilocybin. It's about the validation of research using psychedelic drugs in modern psychiatry.

After your exams, after your diploma, after all the nights on call, missed dinners and diagnoses, after your apologies...

A review of smartphone tools for suicide prevention and recommendations for clinicians.

There is no magic pill or fountain of youth that can build a better older brain, but there are several key strategies.

Older adults seem willing to take a hypothetical predictive test-and plan accordingly.

An overview of various aspects of taking notes and suggestions for effective documentation.

Where would we be without mother birds?

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.