Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

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Psychiatric futurology

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: July 1, 2010

Only intensive research can accelerate our future; everything we know today was a research project a few years ago

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A psychiatrist/lawyer crossfire

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: June 1, 2010

A friendly debate lays to rest lawyers’ misconceptions about psychiatry

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Combination therapy is here to stay

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: May 1, 2010

The negative connotation of polypharmacy will fade as combination therapies become the new standard of care

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A psychiatric manifesto

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: April 1, 2010

This living document will be continuously revised with your suggested additions and modifications

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Connecting the dots: Psychiatrists are virtuosos

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: March 1, 2010

Connecting a patient’s clinically relevant biologic, psychological, and social ‘dots’ is an elegant mix of art and science

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Thick chart syndrome: Treatment resistance is our greatest challenge

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: February 1, 2010

Effective solutions for treatment-resistant patients can be substantially cost-effective for society at large

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Are psychiatrists more evidence-based than psychologists?

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: December 1, 2009

One survey found that only 15% of respondents with serious mental illness received care that was considered at least minimally adequate

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Health care debate: Do psychiatrists support the public option?

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: November 1, 2009

I decided to formulate a hypothesis and then test it by polling a sample of CURRENT PSYCHIATRY readers

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Does psychiatric practice make us wise?

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: October 1, 2009

Psychiatrists develop different neural circuits, compared with surgeons, radiologists, or internists

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Paradigms shift rapidly in antipsychotic treatment

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: September 1, 2009

Clozapine, known as having the highest efficacy, had the lowest mortality risk in an 11-year study of 66,881 patients

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Let me tell you how I feel… (Things that nag at me)

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: August 1, 2009

Why have mentally ill outpatients become ‘clients,’ as if mental healthcare was a business transaction?

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The $1.2 billion CME crisis: Can eleemosynary replace industry support?

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: July 1, 2009

The urgent question about sustaining CME has become: where will funding come from if not from industry?

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Is psychiatry in a recession?

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: June 1, 2009

Does psychiatry need its own ‘TARP’ (Targeted Assistance to Revive Psychiatry)?

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The hallucination portrait of psychosis: Probing the voices within

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: May 1, 2009

Details of auditory hallucinations can provide a baseline to monitor patients’ treatment and warn of potential harm to self and others

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Long overdue: Measurement-based psychiatric practice

Author:: Henry A. Nasrallah, MD

Publish date: April 1, 2009

Let’s face it: many psychiatric charts are too general (‘patient is doing better’) or vague (‘patient partially improved&rs...