Psychiatry

The public perception of marijuana has shifted significantly, and Dr. Timothy Fong addresses how to keep up with progressive research and what risk factors still need to be better understood.

Gina Poe, PhD, discusses the potential role of beta blockers in treating psychiatric illness-related sleep, as well as the specific benefit of melatonin.

NIDA research director Carlos Blanco-Jerez, MD, PhD, reviews how stigma, language barriers and digital health create disparate outcomes in mentally-ill Hispanic patients.

Lois Choi-Kain, MD, MEd, discusses her field's interest in improving the modern diagnosis and evidenced-based treatment of personality disorders.

The UCLA-based investigator discusses the unique impact of PTSD on patients' sleep stages, and how they can limit their insomnia.

The director of NIDA discusses the interplay of substance use disorder and pain in patients, as well as means to assure patients are receiving evidenced-based treatment.

Lois Choi-Kain, MD, MEd, discusses the unique presentations of disease and burdens of care that impact younger patients with BPD.

The modern psychiatrist may play many roles, including as a mentor and a facilitator to social-based support.

The NIDA director reviews neuromodulation's potential role in treating patients with multiple use disorders, and the importance of patient feedback in shaping clinical research.

Rachel Talley, MD, discusses the industry-level changes needed to trainee recruitment and retention to create a psychiatry field more representative of its patient population.

With administration strategies for the psychiatric anesthetic drug well established, clinicians have interest in accumulating long-term data and other potential indications.

Brent Forester, MD, MSc, discusses the confluence of biomarker and disease-targeting therapy in Alzheimer's, and the need to appropriately introduce these tools.

The director of NIDA discusses the unprecedented impact of the pandemic on overdose deaths—and how substance use disorder care may still reach greater capability when all is said and done.

Dementia and Alzheimer's disease cases are anticipated to boom in coming decades. One expert stressed the need for improved screening and facilitation of care at the earliest stages and signs.

The lead author of treatment recommendations weighs in on their current use and future research.

Amid significant psychotherapy innovation and consideration to broader aspects of mental illness definition, Jonathan Alpert, MD, PhD, emphasizes the need for improved clinical trial standards.

New phase 3 data presented at APA 2022 support the agent as an adjunctive in older patients without benefit from monotherapy antidepressant medication.

Montefiore psychiatry chair Jonathan Alpert, MD, PhD, discusses suggested updates to the DSM-5—with consideration to social determinants and patient-reported functioning.

Linda Chokroverty, MD, discusses the significance of timing, communication and care coordination when children are affected by disasters or trauma.

APA president-elect Rebecca W. Brendel, MD, JD, discusses the need to prepare for a "twin mental health pandemic" while continuing to appropriately facilitate innovations in psychiatric care.

Anita Clayton, MD, reviews the available phase 2 and 3 clinical data for the novel, once-daily oral investigative drug.

Linda Chokroverty, MD, discusses the role psychiatrists play in managing the mental health effects of disasters, and how children specifically may be impacted.

A pair of psychiatrists discuss how climate change and other social determinants of health are affecting the mental wellbeing of indigenous people.

It takes even more than a village to provide the comprehensive care needed for aging, neurocognitive patients, says Rajesh R. Tampi, MD, MS.

A 6-year mirror analysis of risperidone, once-monthly paliperidone palmitate or once-monthly aripiprazole concludes suggesting the regimens may serve as an alternative to clozapine.