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With most chronic pain conditions, the exact pathology is uncertain. In such cases, psychiatrists may be called to assess for illness beyond medical diagnosis.

10 Factors Leading to  Pain Complaints  in the Absence of a Medical Diagnosis

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In comparison to the classic presentation of schizophrenia, ANMDARE features a later age of onset, female predominance, visual hallucinations, relative lack of cognitive disorganization, and a lack of an extended prodromal period.

Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis With Visual Hallucinations and Cognitive Impairment

The next several years will present challenges and opportunities for psycho-oncology to improve care for patients.

Looking to the Future and Improving Patient Care

There are myriad nuanced clinical approaches to cancer treatment, and psychosocial factors are no less complex.

Case-Based Clinical Approaches for Clinicians

An added component of cancer treatment is discovering what is most meaningful in the patient’s life and using that to buoy them during difficult moments. That, in a nutshell, is the psychiatrist's role.

Finding Meaning in the Face of Suffering

Here: A summary of indicators for stress and anxiety in patients undergoing transplantation, and why it is important for psychiatrists to be aware of these factors.

Key Stressors in Transplant Psychiatry

When the patient has significant comorbid psychiatric problems, high risk of suicide, and Huntington disease, the role of clinician spills over into patient advocate in a complex medical system.

A Double Whammy: Psychosis and Huntington Disease

Despite advances in clinical care for patients with cancer, distress and depression continue to haunt patients. These fast facts will help you better understand and care for patients with cancer. 

5 Fast Facts for Addressing Distress & Depression in Cancer

Distress and depression are associated with adverse outcomes in patients with cancer, including reduced quality of life, longer rehabilitation time, poor adherence to treatment, and worse survival.

Reducing Distress and Depression

For the millions of patients whose pain is being treated with opioids, mind-body interventions are proving to be important considerations to ease suffering.

Mind-Body Therapies for the Management of Pain: How Effective Are They?

How do you determine whether pain is present and its severity as well as how it responds to treatment in patients who are cognitively impaired? Some answers to these questions.

Pain and Dementia

How can clinicians determine the presence of pain in cognitively impaired patients? And how do you know the medication is working if your patient can’t tell you?

Identifying and Managing Pain in Cognitively Impaired Patients

The mixed bag of emotions described here should be familiar to any clinician, especially to a psychiatrist.

Never a Dull Moment in the Life of a Psychiatrist

Three studies highlight how important it is that when physicians prescribe opioids there can be significant and even potentially fatal consequences for the family members of those for whom they are being prescribed.

When Medications Affect More Than the Patient: Opioids and Family Members

In this Special Report we offer articles that address the interplay of psychiatric and infectious disease.

Introduction: The “Lumpers” and the “Splitters”

Ongoing research has identified multiple infectious diseases that may play a role in the development of neuropsychiatric disorders, particularly in people predisposed to genetic and environmental factors.

Psychiatric Disorders: Are Infectious Agents to Blame?

Psychiatric Adverse Effects  of Antibiotics

Judgements and settlements are starting in Oklahoma against various pharmaceutical companies for their alleged roles in that state’s opioid crisis. Who would be the beneficiaries of these funds?

The Opioid Epidemic Settlements: Who Will Benefit?

The association between psychiatric disorders, most notably depression and anxiety, and pain is well established. However, mental health professionals, and especially psychiatrists, are still often excluded from treating patients with pain.

Psychiatric Disorders and Pain

Medical professionals don’t want to prescribe too many pain killers, which may contribute to the epidemic of opioid misuse, yet they don’t want patients to needlessly suffer.

Psychosomatics

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