Psychiatry

While there is no standard treatment for binge eating disorder, there are ways to help patients.

While there are many options to treat depression, a balance of therapy and medication is often seen as the best method.

There are many factors that make living at home with Alzheimer disease difficult.

Bipolar depression can be difficult to treat and is often misdiagnosed.

A panel discussion on a growing public concern over our ability to treat and prevent dementia.

Despite being commonly prescribed as an antidepressant, investigators find sertraline more effective at alleviating anxiety symptoms.

A new study shows that approximately one-quarter of adults aged 18-34 years old with a medical condition have used marijuna in the past month.

The American Academy of Neurology has published recommendations of 6 quality measurements to help improve care and treatment of patients with mild cognitive impairment.

A clinical discussion on the underlooked, undertreated, and underperforming facets of a public health crisis.

The aim of the “Alzheimer’s Disease Exposome” will be to identify new interactions of risk genes for future studies.

Acadia Pharmaceuticals has announced positive findings for time to psychosis relapse in dementia patients, which resulted in the trial's early end.

Recent research advances have associated the gut's health to overall patient health. What do we know now?

After success in multiple clinical trials, officials tout esketamine as a treatment for both major depressive disorder with active suicidal ideation and treatment resistant depression.

Investigators report positive results using esketamine spray to treat patients with major depressive disorder.

In a retrospective study using the data of 20,741 patients, investigators discover the primary cause of emergency department visits for geriatric patients is head trauma.

Investigators submit recommendations for physicians for Parkinson disease reflecting recent advancements, including a new section on palliative care.

A study of human gut bacteria suggests that high blood pressure with depression may be a completely different disease than high blood pressure without depression.

Benzodiazepines are a common yet not very well understood drug class for elderly patients with insomnia.

In a double-blind, phase 2 trial, investigators find that SAGE-17 results in a reduction of depressive symptoms after 2 weeks.

In honor of National Suicide Prevention Week, Simon Rego, PsyD, and colleagues from Montefiore will look at suicide from a public health and clinical scope.

In a new clinical trial, investigators found a FAAH inhibitor improves the recall of fear extinction memories while reducing the impact of stress in PTSD patients.

A new set of 22 recommendations include a combination of universal screenings, medication, and other preventative initiatives in an effort to drive down veteran suicide rates.

Despite a common belief that medications treating mental illnesses are connected to weight gain, new data shows an individual in a weight management program will lose weight whether or not they are taking antidepressants or antipsychotics.