Tales From the Clinic: The Art of Psychiatry

Emergency departments face challenges in detecting suicidality among patients with trauma, highlighting the need for effective screening and intervention strategies.

Postoperative delirium often goes unrecognized, especially in older patients, leading to significant cognitive decline and longer hospital stays.

The complexities of Huntington disease can pose challenges for diagnosis. Let's take a look at its neuropsychiatric symptoms and the need for comprehensive treatment strategies.

In this Tales From the Clinic article, explore the hidden struggles of female physicians facing subfertility and burnout, and discover essential strategies for support and intervention.

Medical trainees face challenges from patient mistreatment. Frameworks like ERASE can foster supportive learning environments.

Take a look at the differentiation between prodrome and attenuated psychosis, along with cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia.

Legislative and legal realities at the state and federal levels are difficult to navigate even for seasoned practitioners, and are beyond the knowledge of most families.

How does affluence impact mental health outcomes?

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder: a condition that is often underestimated and mistaken for typical premenstrual symptoms or mood swings.

Neurosyphilis may occur during any stage of syphilis. Learn more about this diagnosis via case study example here.

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

Inhalant use disorder is characterized by the intentional inhalation of volatile substances for their psychoactive effects. Learn more about how to help manage this disorder.

Frontal lobe syndrome can present with a range of behaviors that do not meet traditional dementia/neurocognitive disorder criteria.

Explore the devastating impact of substance abuse, human trafficking, and conflict on individuals and communities.

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

Due to ethical, knowledge, cost, and acceptability issues, deep brain stimulation is underutilized in disease states like treatment-resistant schizophrenia.

Social anxiety disorder: an underappreciated and misunderstood condition.

Look through the eyes of a medical health care team in a refugee camp with a focus on children’s mental health.

Explore the complex interaction of cannabis and psychosis, and the sociocultural stressors and resulting neurobehavioral symptoms.

The law says anyone under the age of 18 is considered “incompetent” in regard to health care decisions. But is this what’s best for treatment?

Fatigue is a very common physical complaint. What therapeutic options are available?

Catatonia: learn more about how to best diagnose early.

More than 80% of homeless individuals report having experienced life-altering trauma at some point in their lives.

How can you help patients with bulimia nervosa beyond residential programs?

ADHD is still surrounded by questions. What do we know?

Headaches are a common comorbidity among a variety of psychiatric diagnoses.

Substance use disorder may prove to be a significant issue for some mothers.

Surviving is harder than it looks…

Approximately 7.6% of men and 4.1% of women aged 18 and older suffer from AUD, but national surveys consistently demonstrate low utilization of treatments.