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Is there clinical evidence for the use of digital tools like smartphone apps for schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses?

Depression can be accompanied by cognitive symptoms, but the nature of the relationship between these symptom categories is multifaceted.

What are the effects on the clinician who loses a patient? How to respond?

When treating psychosis, dementia, addiction, and other psychiatric illnesses in older patients, clinicians must be prepared for a multitude of scenarios.

Therapeutic techniques can enhance psychological resilience and may help patients improve their quality of life. Here's how.

An important alternative to pharmaceutical treatments may be at hand.

Do you know the 7 criteria that can help identify those at risk for unhealthy online gaming?

In recent years, health care insurance companies (and the businesses that use them) have begun to invest in mindfulness research and programs What has happened to explain this development?

How to make a DSM-IV–compliant diagnosis when the child’s behavior in school cannot be assessed.

When agitation and psychosis symptoms are severe, is an antipsychotic medication an option? Not always.

Ethics case quiz: A patient's inconsistent decisions regarding treatment are cause for concern. What to do?

How radically do we want to alter the physician’s traditional ethical obligations to the most vulnerable of patients?

Improvement in depressive symptoms appears to have a salutary effect on sexual function.

With the standard aversion to moonlighting in the emergency department at the local hospital, lots of us have asked the same question: “What else can I do to pay the bills?”

Is clozapine still the gold standard for treatment-resistant schizophrenia?

An introduction to our 2-part Special Report on eating disorders, including neurobiology of eating disorders, nutritional needs of patients, clinical response to psychosis, and more.

New insights into neural pathways that play a role in anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.

Eating disorders are second only to substance-abuse disorders in having the highest mental illness mortality rate. How do we assist the patient in moving forward?

What is the clinical response to the occasional presence of psychotic symptoms among patients with eating disorders?

Do atypical antipsychotics increase the risk of major malformations among exposed infants?

Clinicians have a powerful voice that can be used to address cyberbullying, improve campus climate, and support a positive undergraduate experience.

With aging, a multitude of medical conditions can occur and/or existing conditions can be exacerbated, contributing causally to or amplifying neuropsychiatric comorbidities.

Clinical traditions are important, but they can become ossified as the “right way to treat addiction.” So, we need to turn a sharp, skeptical eye on treatment models.

While most clinicians know about Huntington disease, they may not be aware of its devastating effect in cognition and behavior during onset in childhood and adolescence.

Here are four recent studies that provide clinically relevant information on medication management of bipolar disorder in youths.

Drained physicians who don't practice self care may harm themselves and their patients. Here's one way to take a breather.

For too long the treatment needs of the seriously mentally ill have been ignored by SAMSHA, and this needs to change, says this psychiatrist.

Is a "good death" possible in the face of terminal illness?