Special Reports

Psychiatrists helping nonpsychiatrists refer their patients has a long but not always illustrious history.

Although acute pain typically resolves on its own with little need for intervention, for some persons pain persists past the point where it is considered an adaptive reaction to injury.

It is not surprising that one of the most complicated aspects of collaboration with faculty and staff in the ED setting is the professional or social contract.

What Every Psychiatrist Needs to Know to Be Prepared

Decreasing the Clinician’s Risk

Keys to diagnosis, assessment, and management.

An overview of the critical issues involved in overcoming personal and organizational barriers to help substance abusers quit smoking.

Over the past century, the syndrome currently referred to as ADHD has been conceptualized in relation to varying cognitive problems including attention, reward response, executive functioning, and other cognitive processes.

Any person who once “drew a blank” during an exam is familiar with the horrors of cognitive difficulties: that terrible moment is for most of us so rare that it remains a traumatic memory for years to come. Imagine those who suffer from protracted cognitive difficulties.

Many people assume that it is the emotional and psychotic symptoms that make it difficult for a person with schizophrenia to function in everyday life. In fact, research indicates that cognitive impairment is a major reason why functional outcome is so poor.1

We need to have a framework to make certain that our interventions are balanced, safe, and a function of the existing evidence.