From the Editor
From the Editor
Unresolved questions about the specialty lurk in the cortex of psychiatrists
Psychiatrists are known for asking probing questions as part of the necessary excavation of patients’ emotional archaeology. We are also notorious...
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Fear and loathing abound in the ‘off-label’ presidential election of 2016
Name-calling. Grandiosity. Pressured speech. Excessive cockiness. Serial lying. Hostility.
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The scourge of societal anosognosia about the mentally ill
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an alarming statistic last month: The suicide rate in the United States increased by...
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‘Druggable’ genes, promiscuous drugs, repurposed medications
Thanks to disruptive genetic breakthroughs in psychiatry, there are glittering lights at the end of the psychopharmacotherapeutic discovery tunnel...
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Stop blaming ‘demons’ for bizarre delusions or behavior!
I shudder when I read a newspaper or magazine article that describes a person with a psychiatric disorder—often, a celebrity who has fallen from...
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16 New Year’s resolutions for psychiatrists in 2016
Making New Year’s resolutions is an interesting ritual with a notoriously short half-life. Those who go through the exercise, however, exhibit a...
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A decade after the CATIE study, the focus has shifted from effectiveness to neuroprotection
This past September, exactly 10 years after publication of the primary findings of the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness...
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Needed: A biopsychosocial ‘therapeutic placenta’ for people with schizophrenia
Schizophrenia and stroke are 2 serious brain disorders that involve brain damage and disability. Yet the difference between the 2 disorders is...
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Do you practice sophisticated psychiatry? 10 Proposed foundations of advanced care
Progress in scientific and clinical knowledge of psychiatry is proceeding at a furious pace.
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Is there only 1 neurobiologic psychiatric disorder, with different clinical expressions?
The nearly 1,000-page DSM-5 lists hundreds of psychiatric disorders, with an operational clinical process to distinguish them.
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Beyond dopamine: Brain repair tactics in schizophrenia
Let’s be honest: No one is satisfied with current treatment outcomes in schizophrenia.