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Advancing clinical neuroscience literacy among psychiatric practitioners
It is time for psychiatric clinicians to move beyond the traditional practice of describing psychopathology in terms of signs and symptoms, which...
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For first-episode psychosis, psychiatrists should behave like cardiologists
Myocardial infarction (MI) is the leading cause of death in the United States, and schizophrenia is the leading cause of disability. But while...
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Accelerated aging in schizophrenia
Editor-in-Chief Henry A. Nasrallah, MD, discusses the possible causes of accelerated aging and premature mortality in younger persons with...
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Glutamate’s exciting roles in body, brain, and mind: A fertile future pharmacotherapy target
All psychiatrists know that glutamate (GLU) is an important neurotransmitter.1 But there is much more to GLU not only in neurologic diseases and...
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Prescribing is the culmination of extensive medical training and psychologists don’t qualify
It was really disheartening to the psychiatric community that, in April 2017, the Idaho state legislature authorized prescriptive privileges to...
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Maddening therapies: How hallucinogens morphed into novel treatments
In medicine we must always expect the unexpected. Medicine is replete with paradoxes, where poisons become cures. Snake venom is deadly but is...
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Are you neuroprotecting your patients? 10 Adjunctive therapies to consider
Recurrent episodes of psychosis, mania, or depression have been shown to be potentially neurodegenerative and associated with neurotoxicity due...
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Accelerated aging in schizophrenia: Shortened telomeres, mitochondrial dysfunction, inflammation, and oxidative stress
Several lines of evidence are coalescing into a critical scientific insight: Persons with schizophrenia show evidence of accelerated aging.1This...
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The psychiatry workforce pool is shrinking. What are we doing about it?
The dilemma of a diminishing workforce pool might seem more the province of medical school deans, psychiatry department chairs, and psychiatry...
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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...