From the Editor
From the Editor
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.
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Psychoneurogastroenterology: The abdominal brain, the microbiome, and psychiatry
Existence of a gastrointestinal (GI) nervous system, distinct from the CNS that comprises the brain and spinal cord, has been recognized for more...
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Unmet needs and hassles of psychiatric practice
Few things are more aggravating than having to secure preauthorization from an insurance company to hospitalize an acutely ill patient or to...
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10 Triggers of inflammation to be avoided, to reduce the risk of depression
According to the World Health Organization, depression is one of the most prevalent serious brain disorders and the No. 1 cause of disability in...
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10 Recent paradigm shifts in the neurobiology and treatment of depression
The serendipity of half a century ago that hatched hoary theories of the etiology of psychopathology is fading rapidly. Transformative models are...