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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.

Mental health equity is not possible without a diverse workforce. Recruiting diverse psychiatrists is the first step.

Further exploration of the ethical quandary concerning the Goldwater Rule.

What does recent research tell us about use of nonprescription weight-loss products among teens?

From psychotherapy vs pharmacotherapy for depression in heart failure to an update on the 2024 medication pipeline for antidepressants and ADHD treatments, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

Problematic gaming is challenging to treat. Here's how you can get started.

What is new in research on schizophrenia?

Caring adulthood experiences have the power to combat some of the impacts of adverse childhood experiences.

Lacan’s teachings have continued to generate interest and controversy since his death in 1981. Here’s why.

Elena Koundourakis, the head of the Orexin Franchise Development and Portfolio Strategy at Takeda, shares her thoughts on the recent positive topline results from a phase 2 trial evaluating TAK-861, an oral orexin receptor 2 agonist, in patients with narcolepsy type 1.

If all violence in the US that is due to mental disorders could be eliminated, 95% to 97% of violent behavior would remain.