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How do meaning, memory, emotions and, especially, human suffering arise from the brain?

Bolted to the bedroom loft, twenty feet high with lacquered sides and honey colored risers polished with pine-scented wax-these are the rungs I climb to the feather bed, candle, and bottle of red wine...

Is it time to think outside the light box for treatment of seasonal depression?

A new protocol makes light therapy an option for patients with bipolar depression.

Since ancient times, doctors have shown a good deal of interest in identifying seasonal patterns in the incidence of symptoms and disease. Could the holiday blues be a myth?

Be cautious: not all obsessive thinking is OCD.

Two recent clinical trials of opioid medication for depression and suicidality highlight the role of brain opioid systems in depression.

Which anticonvulsant has shown the most promise in quelling antipsychotic-induced weight gain? This question and more in our quiz.

Which symptom can help distinguish bipolar from unipolar depression? How does repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation compare with ECT? Answer these questions and more.

A recent meta-analysis shows this adjunctive agent reduces residual symptoms of psychopathology as well as body weight.

The articles in part 1 of this Special Report provide concise reviews of important research findings and clinical applications of mindfulness meditation, breath practices, and uses of CAM therapies for perinatal depression.

This review provides information to assist clinicians who are considering mindfulness meditation for their patients.

Slow voluntarily regulated breathing practices are noninvasive, easy to learn, and generally safe for treating patients with symptoms of anxiety, insomnia, depression, stress- and trauma-related disorders, ADHD, schizophrenia, and substance abuse.

Many women choose to avoid standard treatment for perinatal depression, and instead prefer integrative treatments that incorporate complementary and alternative therapies. This article reviews the evidence base for these treatments.

Recent studies demonstrate the far-reaching effects of childhood trauma related to depression and suicidality in adulthood. The evidence to support these associations is presented here.

Psychiatrists can serve a pivotal role in reducing sexual offender recidivism by treating individuals with paraphilic disorders. Details here.

These few stories of refugees remind us what a stress to one’s sense of self the immigrant experience entails. They emphasize how important this perspective is when we are asked to evaluate and treat those recently here in the US, and sometimes those who have been here for a generation.

"You just never think people like that can have normal children.” And then I I think of when I was 14 years old and answered a late-night phone call at home.

New research over the past decade has suggested that links between media violence and child aggression are less clear than previously thought. How has our understanding of media violence effects changed?

When a psychiatrist evaluates a patient, there is much to be valued in trying to adopt the patient’s internal perspective of cultural mores and world views. But what are the limits to cultural sensitivity?

Here: a review of issues related to assessment of patients for suicide risk in the ED -- and an overview of emerging approaches and research that one day will lead to more reliable assessment and interventions based more on science than on art or luck.

Are you aware of 2 newly identified predictors of a pernicious depression course in middle-aged women?

This article provides an overview of the role of neurofeedback as an intervention to target symptoms associated with psychiatric disorders.

Sleepless in New Haven, I read this hotel room’s only other book. Power-suited lawyers on the back cover advertise to sue for antidepressant suicides if families will call 1-800-BAD-MEDS...

This just in from the Center for Infectious Joy.

To this day, I fiercely debate whether I would want to remember such an experience if it had happened to me. How tortured would I feel?

Now, when I think back O.P's plight and isolation, I marvel that he could remain standing. He reminds me of many other courageous young men-the writer, the newly graduated physician, and all the others whom I treated and who died of AIDS. He also reminds me of the vibrant gay community that was destroyed by a microscopic retrovirus.

Jewell’s answer taught me that successful diagnosis and treatment of an illness weren’t everything. They were not the most important things.

On a daily basis, our patients demonstrate their resilience to face reality and rise above their challenges, despite the odds. So shall we.