Rif S. El-Mallakh, MD

Interventional psychiatry (Part 2)

Neuromodulation may be an effective option for some patients with difficult-to-treat conditions.

The explosion of interest in interventional psychiatry is highlighted by 2 recent reviews published in Current Psychiatry.

For some patients, IV medications, blocks, and injections could be effective treatments.

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a recurrent, life-long psychiatric illness affecting nearly 2% of the world population that is characterized by episodes...

While our understanding of the mechanisms of psychosis continues to evolve beyond the dopamine hypothesis, the key role...

Individuals with anxiety will experience frequent or chronic excessive worry, nervousness, a sense of unease, a feeling of being unfocused, and...

Lithium is one of the most widely used mood stabilizers and is considered a first-line treatment for bipolar disorder because of its proven...

Recent evidence suggests that suvorexant, which is FDA-approved for insomnia, may be useful for preventing delirium.

PTSD occurs acutely and chronically in the aftermath of severe and potentially life-threatening trauma.

Most clinicians do not think about receptor occupancy when they prescribe a medication. Most simply assume that if they use a low dose of a...

Dosage windows could be difficult to understand pharmacologically, but for a partial agonist the presumed mechanism could be more evident....

Author:: Anoop Narahari, MD; Rif S. El-Mallakh, MD; Murali K. Kolikonda, MD; Amandeep Singh Bains, MD; Steven Lippmann, MD