Topics: Practice Tools and Tips | Psychopharmacology Tips

From cultural expectations to genetic variations, ethnicity has a strong effect on medication response. In this article, we’ll review five areas where ethnic groups can differ in their biological response to psychiatric medications.

Topics: Gender & Sexuality | Practice Tools and Tips

Our profession has a number of obstacles to overcome in gaining the trust of transgender and gender non-conforming patients. We turn to this month’s expert, Jack Drescher, MD, to better understand how to work with this population.

Topics: Depressive Disorder | Free Articles | Psychotherapy

What can you do—beyond prescribing medications—to help your patients who have suicidal ideation? There are many strategies that you can teach your patients, even in the context of brief psychopharm visits.

Topics: Free Articles | Practice Tools and Tips | Psychopharmacology

Patients often ask how their stimulant medication interacts with food. Can you tell us more about this?

Topics: Research Update

Psychotherapy is the main treatment for anorexia nervosa, but which type works best? Several therapies have good evidence in this population, but they differ in their models and methods, and head-to-head comparisons among them are rare. To overcome that limitation, this study used a technique called “network meta-analysis,” which evaluates different treatments based on how they measured up against a common comparison group.

Topics: CME Post-Test

The post-test for this issue is available for one year after the publication date to subscribers only. By successfully completing the test you will be awarded a certificate for 1 CME credit.