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Diagnosing this intricate comorbidity demands a nuanced approach. Here's what you need to know.

"For you and I, know that this space, this pace, this race is a gift to be shared, craved, and loved."

Psychiatric Times sat down with Erikka D. Taylor, MD, MPH, DFAACAP, of Project HEAL to discuss the unique challenges associated with treatment of eating disorders in this patient population.

In patients seen in the medical setting, as many as 20% have personality disorders.

Neuropsychiatric disorders regularly occur following traumatic brain injury and are often diagnosed within the first year postinjury. Diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders can be difficult due to a number of interacting factors, such as preinjury psychiatric history, lesion location, injury severity, substance misuse, and psychosocial complications. Clinicians should use a highly individualized approach to diagnosis and treatment planning.

Explore 2 examples of psychiatrists as chief wellness officers.

The CRL cited several areas for clinical improvement necessary for future approval of the treatment.

“The No Fees for EFTs Act addresses the deceptive business practices of EFTs and protects a doctor’s ability to provide quality patient care.”

Given the paradoxical nature of borderline personality disorder, double bind communication appears to be a common method of engagement which ultimately serves only self-defeating purposes.

Would a psychiatrist Chief Wellness Officer evoke assumptions that burnout was like a psychiatric disorder?

From connections between bipolar disorder and cardiometabolic issues to management of agitation in emergency departments, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

Defining threat assessment and management strategies for child and adolescent psychiatrists.

What is new in research on eating disorders?

"In the corridor, he demands a confession: Who peeled back his bandage? Who let him look?"

Patients should be confident about what psychiatric care offers, regardless of whether they utilize any specific treatments, or even recognize that they are receiving therapeutic care.

What is positive social psychiatry?

Future use of a 12-hour standardized lithium serum concentration notation: the first step towards more interpretable scientific literature and the return of the therapeutic importance of lithium.

Formerly known as the Dean’s Council Diversity Excellence in Medicine Endowed Scholarship, the scholarship will honor Henrietta Lacks’ contributions to science and medicine.

Exploring the intersection of psychiatry and work.

At its most challenging, the ability to transcend differences, whether in psychiatry, education, or politics, can be a matter of life and death.

How can you make a marriage last if you are a psychiatrist?

Psychiatric Times highlighted takeaways from the 2023 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Annual Meeting in our February issue. Don't miss out on these important conference clinical pearls!

Mental illness was quite real for “the Father of Pathology,” whose nuanced view of disease prefigured the biopsychosocial model.

How can we halt the plastic crisis and end plastic pollution once and for all?

These partnerships aim to address the mental health needs of underserved populations, including individuals with clinical depression, anxiety, and mood disorders.

Psychiatric Times® Substance Use Section Editor Roueen Rafeyan, MD, DFAPA, FASAM, weighs in.

Agitation, possibly leading to aggression, is a major issue in emergency centers. Explore a case of agitation in the emergency department.

Two phase 3 trials were conducted to assess the clinical and biological effects as well as the safety of gantenerumab in individuals with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia due to AD. Here's what you need to know.

Look for the unifiers in divisiveness.

“Listen to your heart.” Researchers investigated the risks of cardiometabolic disease, heart failure, and mortality in bipolar disorder in a population-based cohort study.