Topics: Anxiety Disorder | Sleep Disorders

Assessing a patient’s risk of suicide is one of the most common, yet challenging, exercises for the psychiatrist.

Topics: Psychopharmacology Tips

We’ve all been taught not to prescribe addictive drugs to patients who will abuse them, but in the real world it is not always easy to tell who those patients are or to manage the resulting problems.

What are some ways clinicians can minimize the risks to patients and their own liability in psychiatric practice? Dr. Paul Appelbaum explores risk management in clinical practice in this month’s Q&A.

Topics: Depressive Disorder | Research Updates

Do patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) respond better when psychiatrists offer the type of treatment—medication or psychotherapy—that the patient prefers?

Topics: Computers in Psychiatric Practice | Research Updates

No one seems to be without a cell phone these days, so it only makes sense that we should start using these devices to carry out tasks that we used to do in a more “old-fashioned” way.