From the Editor
From the Editor
The crisis of poor physical health and early mortality of psychiatric patients
To prevent premature death, collaborative care with a primary care provider is a must, not an option, for every psychiatric patient.
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The toxic zeitgeist of hyper-partisanship: A psychiatric perspective
The intensity of hyper-partisanship has engulfed the collective national psyche and is bordering on the ‘religification’ of politics.
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The puzzling relationship between cholesterol and psychopathology
We should mind our patients’ cholesterol because it may affect their minds, not just their hearts.
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The dawn of precision psychiatry
Imagine being able to precisely select the medication with the optimal efficacy, safety, and tolerability at the outset of treatment for every...
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Errors of omission and commission in psychiatric practice
Even experienced practitioners are not immune from making these common mistakes in the hustle and bustle of daily work.
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Beyond DSM-5: Clinical and biologic features shared by major psychiatric syndromes
Imagine the rich landscape of psychopathology as an Amazon jungle. The DSM diagnostic schema describes the individual trees but overlooks the...
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Advancing clinical neuroscience literacy among psychiatric practitioners
It is time for psychiatric clinicians to move beyond the traditional practice of describing psychopathology in terms of signs and symptoms, which...
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For first-episode psychosis, psychiatrists should behave like cardiologists
Myocardial infarction (MI) is the leading cause of death in the United States, and schizophrenia is the leading cause of disability. But while...
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Glutamate’s exciting roles in body, brain, and mind: A fertile future pharmacotherapy target
All psychiatrists know that glutamate (GLU) is an important neurotransmitter.1 But there is much more to GLU not only in neurologic diseases and...
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Prescribing is the culmination of extensive medical training and psychologists don’t qualify
It was really disheartening to the psychiatric community that, in April 2017, the Idaho state legislature authorized prescriptive privileges to...
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Maddening therapies: How hallucinogens morphed into novel treatments
In medicine we must always expect the unexpected. Medicine is replete with paradoxes, where poisons become cures. Snake venom is deadly but is...
