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Quo vadis, psychopharmacology?
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Innovation in psychopharmacology depends on overcoming multiple challenges that stifle drug discovery and development
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Invisible tattoos: The stigmata of psychiatry
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Stigma affects not just our patients, but also our profession
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The most powerful placebo is not a pill
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
The psychiatrist’s verbal and nonverbal cues can have a positive or negative placebo effect on the patient
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Harnessing epigenetics for psychiatry
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Therapeutic orchestration of gene expression will one day prevent mental illness
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A skeptical view of ‘progress’ in psychiatry
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
For psychiatry, progress isn’t what it used to be
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Parsimonious pharmacotherapy
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
In some cases, a single psychotropic can effectively treat multiple disorders
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Polypharmacy subtypes: The necessary, the reasonable, the ridiculous, and the hazardous
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
The spectrum of polypharmacy ranges from the rational to the irrational
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Folie en masse! It’s so tempting to drink the Kool-Aid
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
It’s hard to resist endorsing widely accepted false beliefs
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Two vastly underutilized interventions can improve schizophrenia outcomes
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Wider use of clozapine and long-acting injectable antipsychotics can reduce the duration of untreated psychosis and improve quality of life
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Shattering dogmas
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
The best way to rid our specialty of unproven tenets is to seek scientific basis for everything we do
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Recognizing the unheralded heroes of psychiatry
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Those who quietly contribute to advancing psychiatry deserve our gratitude
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Are some nonpsychotic psychiatric disorders actually psychotic?
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Fixed false beliefs are characteristic of many disorders not labeled as psychotic in DSM-IV-TR
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Out-of-the-box questions about psychotherapy
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Should psychotherapy be subjected to the same research paradigm as clinical drug trials?
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Integrating psychiatry with other medical specialties
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Although psychiatry has successfully embraced the medical model, separations still prevent its full integration
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Treat the patient, not the disease: Practicing psychiatry in the era of guidelines, protocols, and algorithms
- Author:
- Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
There is no such thing as an average patient and an average treatment—every patient is unique