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Is There an Equation for Suicidal Lethality?

Where math meets mental health

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DSM Chair on Predictions for the Future of Psychiatry

APA board voted to move towards an "iterative process" in updating diagnostic manual

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The Potentially Deadly Pursuit of Muscle Mass

Body image concerns aren't just a women's issue

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Emergency Medicine Residents Report High Rates of Mistreatment

Large survey study also found that such experiences were linked to increased suicidality

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Naloxone Rebound Akathisia: It Could Turn on You

The rise in opioid overdoses warrants a review of the symptoms of akathisia

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Staying on Pimavanserin Cut Dementia-Related Psychosis Relapse

However, late-stage trial couldn't separate efficacy in dementia subtypes

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You're Not Alone in Your Darkest Hours

Ending the silence on mental health can save the lives of our peers, our patients, and ourselves

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The Mental Health Toll of Not Matching

Reports of suicides and unprecedented social media dialogue have turned a spotlight on the issue

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What's Driving Eating Disorders in Trans Patients?

Proper care begins with understanding

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Stop Exploiting Suicide For Political Gain

False claims have driven moral panic during the COVID pandemic

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Suicide Continues to Get Sad Before It Gets Sadder

Novel research and definitions are essential to reversing bleak trends

FDA APPROVED olanzapine and samidorphan (Lybalvi)

FDA OKs New Antipsychotic for Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder

Approval of olanzapine-samidorphan carries opioid-related contraindications

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Op-Ed: Can We Stop Shooting the Mentally Ill?

Let's start by improving access to treatment and using alternative models of crisis intervention

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Teen Social Media Addiction? Consider Race-Based Trauma

Composite case offers example on how media diet of racial violence could affect mental health

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Involuntary Psychiatric Holds in Kids: The Known Unknowns

Literature review turns up factors associated with youth psych admissions, and knowledge gaps

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Op-Ed: Are Marijuana Use and Suicide Linked?

A review of the data show there's cause for alarm

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In Depression, the Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree

Study shows kids have increased depression risk with family history

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High Prevalence of Early-Onset Dementia in Schizophrenia Patients

More than a quarter had a dementia diagnosis by age 66

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Op-Ed: The American Psychiatric Association Sickened America

It's time to right their wrongs and move toward recovery

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Treatment for Zoophilia Not Well-Defined

"[We're] basically adopting from the sex offender literature"

USPSTF: Counseling Best for Perinatal Depression Prevention

Final recommendation statement affirms 2018 draft

DSM-5 Moves Closer to 'Living Document'

APA works to fulfill promises for psychiatry's 'bible'

Quelling Overdiagnosis of Bipolar Disorder in Kids

New DSM-5 category may better capture the actual condition

Lowering the Bar: Medicine in the 21st Century

Does diagnosis always mean disease, or does it sometimes mean opportunity?

Hey Doc, How Does My Penis Measure Up? Here's a Graph.

A not particularly useful guide to size.

Tx Adherence High Among Mentally Ill Vets on Methadone

Methadone treatment may have ancillary benefits.

Is That an Unusual Sexual Fantasy?

Sex in the office, fellatio, and menage a trois: Researchers probe sexual fantasies.

APA Meeting Highlights Mental Health Biology

NEW YORK CITY -- The biological basis for normal and abnormal mental function is emerging as a dominant theme in psychiatry research, and the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting that starts here Saturday won't be an exception.

Exercise May Allay Anxiety, Depression

SAN DIEGO -- Exercise may have modest benefits as a treatment for patients suffering from anxiety or depression, researchers reported here.

APA Leaders Defend New Diagnostic Guide

SAN FRANCISCO -- The fifth edition of the "psychiatrist's bible" was officially released here in all its 947-page glory, with its developers offering a spirited rebuttal to their critics.

DSM-5: What's In, What's Out

PHILADELPHIA -- Reports here provided what may be the last public update on DSM-5, the next edition of American psychiatry's diagnostic guide, before it is formally released in May 2013.

Autism Criteria Critics Blasted by DSM-5 Leader

PHILADELPHIA -- The head of the American Psychiatric Association committee that's rewriting the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders took on the panel's critics here, accusing them of bad science.

DSM-5 Panel Tiptoes on Grief, Depression

PHILADELPHIA -- Psychiatrists writing new diagnostic criteria for major depression hope an explanatory note will mollify critics of a proposal to let patients grieving a dead loved one receive a formal diagnosis.

Most DSM-5 Revisions Pass Field Trials

PHILADELPHIA -- Field trials of proposed new diagnostic criteria for many mental disorders showed that, for the most part, they were at least adequately reliable.

FDA Panel Looks at Trials of Devices to Treat Depression

GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- An FDA advisory panel met Friday to discuss how to analyze trials designed to test devices used to treat depression, but didn't offer the FDA any clear-cut guidance.

APA: Field Testing to Begin in July for DSM-5

NEW ORLEANS -- More than 10 years after the American Psychiatric Association (APA) began developing its fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diseases (DSM), the process is now moving smartly toward its planned 2013 conclusion, leaders of the effort said here.