Special Reports

Emergency psychiatry navigates complex ethical dilemmas, balancing patient safety, autonomy, and confidentiality in high-stakes situations.

EmPATH units revolutionize emergency psychiatry, offering rapid, compassionate care for behavioral health crises and improving community outcomes.

Emergency departments face unique challenges in providing psychiatric care for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, impacting wait times and overall experience.

2025: one of the most consequential years ever for emergency psychiatry.

The prevalence of tobacco use in schizophrenia is over 60%—3 times that of the general population. However, the reason for the high prevalence of tobacco use in schizophrenia remains largely unknown.

Learn more about key findings on sex differences in cognition, exploring the possible causes and implications for clinical practice.

Disruptions to cognitive control, as well as to emotional processes, are implicated in a wide range of psychiatric disorders.

Cognitive symptoms affect between 85% and 94% of patients with major depressive disorder. Despite this prevalence, cognitive dysfunction often remains undertreated and inadequately addressed in routine clinical practice.

Review various aspects of cognition in our latest Special Report.

According to research, symptoms of ADHD are more often overlooked or diagnosed later in children with higher cognitive ability, physical activity, or social skills.

The fact that celiac disease has effects on the brain is recognized but not completely understood.

Learn more about how to appropriately diagnose and categorize a spectrum of posttraumatic stress responses in children and adolescents.

How has the field of child and adolescent psychiatry matured over the last 3 decades? Our Special Report Chair, Peter S. Jensen, MD, elaborates.

Here's how best to manage polypharmacy in patients with traumatic brain injury.

How often do you revisit a comprehensive medication reconciliation?

Check out these top 10 best practices for treating patients with mood disorders.

Check out the top 5 best practice recommendations for treating children and adolescents with psychotropic and combination therapies.

Let's review the Special Reports of 2024!

A recent longitudinal, retrospective study aimed to examine antipsychotic prescribing and rehospitalization rates in a forensic psychiatric sample.

Researchers investigated the link between psychosis, criminal sanctions, and mortality rates following discharge from a hospital for acute psychosis.

Extreme risk protection orders may be an effective suicide prevention tool.

In some cases of child murder by the mother, psychiatrists may have a critical role in prevention. Learn more here.

Learn more about malingering in this forensic psychiatry overview.

Conspiracy theories can lead individuals to engage in criminal and violent behaviors. It is necessary for psychiatrists treating or forensically evaluating individuals with conspiracy theories to be able to correctly identify different forms of belief.

The use of validated and scalable risk prediction tools can potentially improve mental health outcomes.

There are several points along this pathway for a justice involved patient to be intercepted and diverted to mental health treatment.

Learn more about topics of interest in forensic psychiatry in this month's Special Report!

Check out this unique approach to foster positive and trusting relationships via natural interactions in the community and minimize the stigma related to psychosis.