October 17th 2024
Inhalant use disorder is a form of substance use disorder characterized by the intentional inhalation of volatile substances for their psychoactive effects.
September 26th 2024
September 20th 2024
2023 Annual Psychiatric Times™ World CME Conference
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5th Annual International Congress on the Future of Neurology®
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Clinical Consultations™: Managing Depressive Episodes in Patients with Bipolar Disorder Type II
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Medical Crossfire®: Understanding the Advances in Bipolar Disease Treatment—A Comprehensive Look at Treatment Selection Strategies
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Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection™: Exploring Unmet Needs In Postpartum Depression – Making the Case for Early Detection and Novel Treatments
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'REEL’ Time Patient Counseling: The Diagnostic and Treatment Journey for Patients With Bipolar Disorder Type II – From Primary to Specialty Care
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Real Psychiatry 2025
January 17 - 18, 2025
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More Than ‘Blue’ After Birth: Managing Diagnosis and Treatment of Post-Partum Depression
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Patient, Provider & Caregiver Connection™: Reducing the Burden of Parkinson Disease Psychosis with Personalized Management Plans
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Expert Perspectives in the Recognition and Management of Postpartum Depression
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Southern California Psychiatry Conference
July 11-12, 2025
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SimulatED™: Diagnosing and Treating Alzheimer’s Disease in the Modern Era
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Expert Illustrations & Commentaries™: New Targets for Treatment in Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia – The Role of NMDA Receptors and Co-agonists
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BURST CME™ Part I: Understanding the Impact of Huntington’s Disease
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Burst CME™ Part II: The Evolving Treatment Landscape for Huntington Disease
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Clinical ShowCase: Developing a Personalized Treatment Plan for a Patient with Huntington’s Disease Associated Chorea
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Stabilize and Thrive: Prioritizing Patient Success Through Novel Therapeutic Management in Schizophrenia
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Community Practice Connections™: Optimizing the Management of Tardive Dyskinesia—Addressing the Complexity of Care With Targeted Treatment
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PER Psych Summit: Integrating Shared Decision-Making Into Management Plans for Patients With Schizophrenia
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PSYCHIATRY ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR – SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES
May 16th 2013The Department of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center is seeking a faculty member in its Substance Abuse Services at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor to conduct clinical care and teaching in the field of addiction medicine. The position will be based at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, a major affiliate hospital which serves as a training site for medical students, residents and an ACGME credited fellowship in addiction psychiatry. There are opportunities to join ongoing funded programs or to develop new research or academic initiatives.
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Hippocratic Humility in the Face of 'Unexplained' Medical Problems
May 7th 2013The poorly conceived DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorder substitutes a false psychiatric certainty that misleadingly covers medical uncertainty about the appropriate diagnosis. It is better to admit what we don't know than cover it with meaningless labels.
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Parity Laws: Powerful Weapon-or Pipe Dream?
May 6th 2013Has the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity had any real impact on your ability to provide care to patients, or are you experiencing the shells and mortars of paperwork and denials? And will the average patient ever really benefit from the laws, or were they just passed to make the country feel better about the state of psychiatric care in the US?
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Shared Decision Making in the Treatment of Psychosis
April 15th 2013Psychiatrists vary in their eagerness to share therapeutic decisions with patients: some believe that adherence is paramount and paternalism is often necessary to prevent loss of insight with consequent impaired judgment and functional decline. These authors argue in favor of a radically more collaborative style.
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Law Suit Filed Against Anthem for Discrimination, Violating Federal Law
April 12th 2013Plaintiffs in this lawsuit claim that CPT coding policy has resulted in decreased reimbursement for psychiatrists, who will now receive 20% less for evaluation and management services than what Anthem pays other physicians.
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Discrimination and Parity Violation Claims Levied Against Anthem BCBS of Connecticut
March 19th 2013Changes will mean patients will only be covered for psychiatrists’ services that include medical evaluation and management; CPT coding will not allow for coverage of psychotherapy as a separate and equal category for payment.
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How Frame Analysis Can Guide the Therapeutic Process
March 18th 2013Frame analysis can not only help us to discern the roots of such standoffs but also to conceptualize specific ways of addressing the conflicts in therapeutic language with the patient, with the goal of forging an integrated approach to treatment.
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Prison or Treatment for the Mentally Ill
March 8th 2013After each violent tragedy, the politicians hypocritically mourn and harrumph, but wind up buckling under pressure from the NRA, fiscal constraints, and the prison and gun lobbies. Repeated dramatic events can shake the complacency and cowardice of a stalemated Congress and state legislatures.
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The Medicalization of Grief: What We Can Learn From 19th-Century Nervousness
March 2nd 2013Concerns are raised about DSM-5 revisions in the definition of depression. Many worry that eliminating the bereavement exception in the guidelines for the diagnosis of major depressive disorder represents a dangerous move.
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A Valentine for Nonhuman Healers
February 16th 2013About a year ago, I wrote the blog “Are Dogs Man's Best Therapist?” To my surprise, it turned out to be a very popular one. Since then, dogs continue to be in the news for their therapeutic effect, including being brought to Newtown right after the mass murder there.
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Mislabeling Medical Illness As Mental Disorder
February 13th 2013DSM-5 must emphasize that physical symptoms deserve the respect of a thorough work-up before assuming their cause is psychiatric. And people with defined medical illnesses should not be casually mislabeled as also mentally ill just because they are upset about being sick.
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