Best Practices for Motivational Pharmacotherapy Sessions

Rethink “treatment-resistant depression” by adopting difficult-to-treat depression, verifying adequate trials, and stratifying drivers like trauma and inflammation to improve outcomes.

Once-monthly subcutaneous olanzapine LAI requires no loading doses, oral supplementation, or post-injection monitoring, based on phase 3 SOLARIS data.

Routine symptom measures sharpen psychiatric diagnosis, speed remission, flag relapse risk, and turn EHR data into a learning system for better care.

Vortioxetine eases depression in older adults, while cognitive gains stay mixed—showing selective boosts in attention and processing speed, not consistent global improvement.

Once-monthly subcutaneous olanzapine TEV-749 shows sustained stabilization and remission in schizophrenia, supports direct switching, and avoids post-injection monitoring.

Real-world data links once-monthly Uzedy to fewer ER visits, better adherence, and lower costs—plus fewer bipolar I relapses when switching from pills.

Veterans younger than 30 starting antidepressants, and anyone coprescribed opioids and benzodiazepines, will need to sign consent forms starting in 2027.

Phase 3 psilocybin and LSD data plus new FDA guidance fuel a depression boom—yet clinics still wrestle with dosing time, cost, access.