Psychiatry Comic: Anxiety Medication

A cross-sector ACNP task force calls for shared standards and shared data to move psychiatry beyond trial-and-error prescribing.

Despite previous failure of PDE10A inhibitor drugs to demonstrate antipsychotic effects in clinical trials, a new "improved" iteration has met phase 2 trial endpoints.

Ketamine, esketamine, and ECT can rapidly ease suicidal thoughts, but evidence for preventing attempts or deaths remains limited—see what’s proven.

Nearly half of US adults who drink and use cannabis combine them at once; cannabis use disorder drives the trend, signaling urgent screening needs.

Study finds most teens with first-episode psychosis stop antipsychotics within a year, boosting ER use; outpatient care and injectables may help.

Experts highlight biomarker-driven schizophrenia care—computational subtypes, muscarinic drugs, sharper negative-symptom scoring, and KCC2 targets—reducing trial-and-error prescribing.

Learn how clozapine, lithium, ketamine, and antidepressants fit into suicide prevention, from rapid crisis relief to long-term risk reduction.

Panelists explain why precision tools lag in schizophrenia care and highlight simple biomarkers, faster deals, and clinician-industry collaboration.