Article
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: September 1, 2017
It is time for psychiatric clinicians to move beyond the traditional practice of describing psychopathology in terms of signs and symptoms, which i...
Article
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: August 1, 2017
Myocardial infarction (MI) is the leading cause of death in the United States, and schizophrenia is the leading cause of disability. But while card...
Video
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: July 1, 2017
Editor-in-Chief Henry A. Nasrallah, MD, discusses the possible causes of accelerated aging and premature mortality in younger persons with schizoph...
Article
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: July 1, 2017
All psychiatrists know that glutamate (GLU) is an important neurotransmitter.1 But there is much more to GLU not only in neurologic diseases and ps...
Article
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: June 1, 2017
It was really disheartening to the psychiatric community that, in April 2017, the Idaho state legislature authorized prescriptive privileges to psy...
Article
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: January 1, 2017
In medicine we must always expect the unexpected. Medicine is replete with paradoxes, where poisons become cures. Snake venom is deadly but is bein...
Article
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: December 1, 2016
Recurrent episodes of psychosis, mania, or depression have been shown to be potentially neurodegenerative and associated with neurotoxicity due to...
Article
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: November 1, 2016
Several lines of evidence are coalescing into a critical scientific insight: Persons with schizophrenia show evidence of accelerated aging.1This im...
Article
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: September 1, 2016
The dilemma of a diminishing workforce pool might seem more the province of medical school deans, psychiatry department chairs, and psychiatry resi...
Article
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: July 28, 2016
Psychiatrists are known for asking probing questions as part of the necessary excavation of patients’ emotional archaeology. We are also notorious ...
News
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: July 1, 2016
Name-calling. Grandiosity. Pressured speech. Excessive cockiness. Serial lying. Hostility.
News
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: May 26, 2016
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an alarming statistic last month: The suicide rate in the United States increased by ...
News
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: April 25, 2016
Thanks to disruptive genetic breakthroughs in psychiatry, there are glittering lights at the end of the psychopharmacotherapeutic discovery tunnel....
News
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: January 27, 2016
I shudder when I read a newspaper or magazine article that describes a person with a psychiatric disorder—often, a celebrity who has fallen f...
News
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Publish date: December 23, 2015
Making New Year’s resolutions is an interesting ritual with a notoriously short half-life. Those who go through the exercise, however, exhibi...
