COVID-19

Have you gotten your COVID-19 vaccine?

Memorial Day is a time to remember not only those who have lost their lives, but also those whose psychic wounds have not yet healed.

What are some practical ideas for helping families who may be dealing with a COVID-19 death?

Over a third of older Americans aren't comfortable taking off their masks until 2022.

Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health Director, leverages lessons from past natural disasters and traumas to foster resiliency and inform future research endeavors.

In his William C. Menninger Memorial Lecture, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, shared lessons learned and remaining challenges for the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in terms of mental health and behavioral issues.

How can we face the current pandemic while addressing the brain health crisis?

The pandemic has kept people apart. What are the mental health consequences of being alone? And what would be the benefits of getting back together?

Overwhelmed and encumbered agencies are increasingly unable to provide critical services for LGBTQ youth, leaving them powerless in impeding a downward spiral into homelessness and associated negative ramifications. There are 5 ways psychiatrists can help.

An introduction to the May issue of Psychiatric Times.

According to Nora D. Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, drug use and overdose deaths have significantly increased since the outset of the pandemic. What made it worse?

Pain as a cultural construct considers conscious and unconscious biases, as well as methods for assessing and managing pain in all patient populations, including those with mental health challenges.

A year after being hospitalized with COVID, a physician considers the pandemic’s larger meaning for American medicine—and for American society.

A recent study tested a new digital therapeutic for effectiveness on both substance abuse and depression.

Patients who are report social phobia are unlikely to speak out for themselves. For them, confrontations with their boss or coworkers are even worse than water-cooler conversations. That is where psychiatrists can help.

The pandemic has driven a psychiatrist into isolation, but his long history in the arts helps him reconnect.

Key considerations for healthcare providers seeking to manage their patients’ insomnia.

What meanings and values can be found from the past year, and what words will be found going forward?

What words do people associate with the past year?

Multidisciplinary insights on helping patients with ADHD during the COVID-19 pandemic, medication abuse, and other factors affecting care.

The vaccine needs to be appropriately framed: as a benefit, not a risk.

The wave of anti-Asian violence needs a better response than mere words.

Everything we thought we knew was wrong...

Leaders are struggling to justly distribute the coveted vaccine, as their are many vexing ethical issues surrounding COVID-19.

The COVID-19 outbreak will eventually end, but public health experts expect this will not be the last pandemic. Will we have learned the right lessons so we can more successfully weather the next one?

Every phase of the COVID-19 pandemic brings new ethical challenges.

During the pandemic, Albert Camus’ existential novels have become newly popular—and with good reason.

A new study considers how the virus might enter the brain and cause cognitive issues.

What factors make individuals more susceptible to loneliness? Gender? Race? Age?

After a long, dark week comes the refreshing sunshine.