Chronic mood disorders pose an important mental health problem. Individuals with these disorders experience a significant impairment, often fail to seek help, and their illnesses frequently do not respond to [...]
A patient’s complaint of “hearing voices” or “seeing things” or of similar perceptual abnormalities leaves the clinician with 2 decisions: (1) Is the patient actually experiencing a hallucination, or does [...]
Anxiety and depressive disorders frequently recur, but participation in effective psychological interventions to prevent relapse is limited. The reasons for nonparticipation are largely unknown, hampering successful implementation. The aims of [...]
Three cases presented in this issue highlight diagnostic challenges in evaluating adolescents, in particular those with a constellation of symptoms that includes hallucinations. These cases raise the question of the [...]
This case report describes a unique presentation of Cotard syndrome in an 18-year-old female patient experiencing first-episode psychosis. Cotard syndrome was first described in 1880 by Jules Cotard as a [...]
Excessive information seeking doubles the odds of elevated posttraumatic stress and anxiety/depression
Teens with autism more likely to receive mental health services and to have an unmet medical or mental health need
Authors say all older adults should be screened for cannabis and other substance use as part of routine care
Opioid prescriptions for opioid-naive decreased then rebounded, while buprenorphine initiation remained lower