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Holidays and couples therapy can remind us how precious relationships can be…

Learn more about cannabis use and social media addiction in this month's Special Report!

Esmethadone missed primary efficacy measure in phase 3 clinical trial after robust results in phase 2, possibly more to differences in the cohorts than the compound.

Is PTSD overdiagnosed?

What should politicians be focusing on to improve the well-being of the country?

Will this procedure help? Researchers investigated early symptom improvement and other clinical predictors of response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression.

Social anxiety disorder: increased screening and recognition are essential for proper diagnosis, and psychotropic and psychotherapeutic options can be effective.

"While considering Celan's suicide, I think back to Virginia Woolf drowning herself..."

“In music, you have to listen to each other to create harmony. And when you apply that in society, you are a different person.”

New phase 1b results of VLS-01, an oral transmucosal film formulation of DMT, show ‘psychologically meaningful’ improvement for patients with treatment-resistant depression.

"But after we’ve met for the time it takes to smoke eight hundred packs of cigarettes, after all the medication trials, the damaged sighs and side effects, I wonder, Would Celan still drown himself in the River Seine?"

Finding social truth in poetic metaphors.

A time for fighting or a time for peace?

What do politics, the 2024 Olympic Games, and psychiatry have in common?

Evidence indicates that children and adolescents with ADHD have a more than 4-fold increased risk of schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders in adulthood compared with the general population.

A phase 3 clinical trial participant shares her thoughts on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and her trial experience.

SSRI and SNRI antidepressants were deemed the safest classes of antidepressants in the event of excess dosing in an assessment of 14 antidepressants prescribed in the United States on 3 safety indices.

Despite the FDA's complete response letter for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, researchers believe the data behind this PTSD treatment is what matters most.

How can you best identify and manage pediatric PTSD?

What effect does nature have on mental health?

Studies report an increased risk for suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, and even death by suicide following brain injury.

What influence do legislation and social-based decisions have on individual mental health, like in the case of drag performers?

At least 1 in 2 people experience trauma at some point in their life, and a subset of those individuals will develop PTSD.

"So this is Nebraska. A Sunday afternoon; July. Driving along with your hand out squeezing the air, a meadowlark waiting on every post."

Mental health clinicians have the privilege to often be trusted with the darkest secrets of patients, but with the accompanying challenge to maintain their own well-being.

Psychiatry is such a young field attempting to improve functioning and quality of life for so many diverse and complex brain disorders that it should be no surprise that our treatment outcomes spread across the spectrum from much improved to progressive decline.