Mini Quiz: New Patient Consult

When an antidepressant seems to stop working, the patient’s deterioration is real. The explanation may be less certain.

The evidence points toward an overall protective effect in adult cohorts and no increase in completed suicide in younger populations.

Explore evolving ethical challenges of long-acting injectable antipsychotics, weighing relapse prevention against coercion, stigma, incentives, and racial equity in clinical practice.

This study compared the efficacy and tolerability of the 5 second-generation antipsychotics that are currently FDA approved as adjunctive treatments for adults with MDD.

Antipsychotic levels clarify adherence, guide dose escalation up to a point of futility, and offer more than pharmacogenetic testing, says Jonathan Meyer, MD.

Learn how clinicians tailor antidepressants by diagnosis, symptoms, adverse effects, and next-step strategies for treatment-resistant depression.

How to interpret antipsychotic drug levels in schizophrenia: when labs mislead, when levels help adherence and toxicity checks, and why serial monitoring matters.

Therapeutic drug monitoring takes guesswork out of antipsychotic care—spotting nonadherence, guiding dose targets, and defining response thresholds and the “point of futility” in schizophrenia.