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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.

Here's a case that illustrates the potential for alprazolam to create a dementia-like appearance-not to mention a premature aging of the patient.

What are the limitations and advantages of biomedicine and Asian medicine? When is it more beneficial to use one or the other? Guidelines for combining the two?

Here’s a very unscientific survey of this year’s most meaningful issues is psychiatry. Quite a year.

Dr. Moffic remembers psychiatrists whose lives provided a model for the wider field of psychiatry in 2016. They are truly "gone but not forgotten."

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.