June 26th 2025
Augmented reality can transform psychiatric treatment, enhancing exposure therapy for trauma and anxiety by simulating real-world environments and interactions.
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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SimulatED™: Understanding the Role of Genetic Testing in Patient Selection for Anti-Amyloid Therapy
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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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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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Southern Florida Psychiatry Conference
November 21-22, 2025
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Real Psychiatry 2026
January 23-24, 2026
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Managing Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia: Can Prescription Digital Therapeutics Make an Impact?
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Optimizing Care for Patients With Tardive Dyskinesia
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Stabilize and Thrive: Prioritizing Patient Success Through Novel Therapeutic Management in Schizophrenia
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Tips for Treating Comorbid Depression and Anxiety
October 9th 2012Comorbid depressive and anxiety disorders are commonly seen in both primary care and the specialty setting. Such comorbidity can present as major depression with subsyndromal anxiety symptoms or unipolar/bipolar depression with an anxiety disorder.
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The Military Can Do More To Prevent Suicides
October 8th 2012James Dao reports in the New York Times that the military is considering 2 steps to reduce its startling rate of active duty suicides-which is approaching an unacceptable one suicide every day. Both measures are completely sensible, but neither goes nearly far enough.
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The Epidemic of Military Suicide
September 20th 2012With understandable urgency, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has made suicide one of his top priorities, instructing commanders at all levels to feel acutely accountable for it. The numbers are startling. On average 1 active duty soldier is killing himself each day--twice the number of combat deaths and twice the civilian rate.
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Video: Perinatal Anxiety Disorders: Risks, and Treatment Options
November 17th 2011Perinatal anxiety disorders are common and pose risks to women and their offspring. Here, Laura Miller, MD, speaks briefly on panic disorder, PTSD, and OCD during pregnancy and post-partum, and she offers strategies for crafting effective treatment plans.
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Issues in Treating Anxiety Disorders in Pregnancy
September 7th 2011Anxiety disorders are a frequent occurrence in pregnancy. While some worries and anxiety are experienced by more than 50% of pregnant women, a full-blown anxiety disorder involves risk to both mother and fetus and increases the risk of postpartum depression.
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Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders
September 6th 2011Exposure-based therapies are highly effective for patients with anxiety disorders, to the extent that exposure should be considered a first-line, evidence-based treatment for such patients. In clinical practice, however, these treatments are underutilized, which highlights the need for additional dissemination and training.
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Military Hearing of Accused Killer of Psychiatrist and Others in Iraq
August 15th 2011In 2009, Maj Matthew P. Houseal, a psychiatrist, was in Iraq attempting to help suicidal soldiers when a fellow soldier killed him, a clinical social worker and 3 others at a combat stress center near Bagdad. Paradoxically, Houseal’s accused killer, US Army Sgt John Russell, had earlier threatened to take his own life, according to witnesses’ testimony during a recent investigative Article 32 hearing.
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Self-medication for Anxiety Increases Risk for Substance Use Disorders
May 25th 2011Patients with anxiety disorders who self-medicate with alcohol or drugs may be increasing their risk for developing incident substance use disorders, according to a study presented at the American Psychiatric Association’s recent annual meeting.
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Quiz on Violent Behavior, Anxiety in Children, Delusions
February 8th 2011Is violent behavior a proxy indicator for the relationship between severity of substance abuse and suicide risk? What has the strongest influence in promoting doubt about a delusion in a patient with schizophrenia? These questions and more.
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There Are No Vaccines for PTSD and Suicides in the Military
August 12th 2010The latest information released by the US Army reveals that last year American soldiers attempted suicide at the rate of about 5 /day. There were 160 successful suicides last year and during June the rate was 1/day. Military research has reported that one in 10 Iraq veterans may develop a severe case of PTSD.
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