COVID-19 Updates
Commentary
COVID-19 and the psychiatrist/psychoanalyst: My experience
COVID-19 affected all aspects of psychiatric care. As a psychiatrist who is also a psychoanalyst, I faced some unique challenges to caring for my...
Residents' Voices
Managing a COVID-19–positive psychiatric patient on a medical unit
With the COVID-19 pandemic turning the world on its head, we have seen more first-episode psychotic breaks and quick deterioration in previously...
News
Fingers take the fight to COVID-19
Plus: The interesting man in his flying machine, giving food as medicine some bite, and one benefit of being rude or stubborn.
From the Journals
Psychotropic med use tied to ‘striking’ post-COVID dementia risk
“It is possible that psychotropic medications may potentiate the neurostructural changes that have been found in the brain of those who have...
News from the FDA/CDC
As FDA OKs another COVID booster, some experts question need
“Is the goal to prevent any symptomatic infection with COVID-19, is the goal to prevent the spread of COVID-19, or is the goal to prevent severe...
Conference Coverage
‘Staggeringly high’ rates of psychiatric symptoms after COVID-19
From the Journals
Neuropsychiatric outcomes similar for hospitalized COVID-19 patients and non–COVID-19 patients
Cognitive status in COVID-19 survivors was worse at 6 months compared to controls, but overall disease burdens were similar.
From the Journals
‘Pandemic brain’ not limited to patients infected with COVID-19
From the Journals
‘Profound implications’: COVID ups diabetes risk 40% a year later
‘All these roads are pointing in one direction, that COVID-19 increases the risk of diabetes up to a year later. If patients have a prior history...
Latest News
U.S. health officials tracking COVID-19 increase in U.K.
“Over the last year or so, what happens in the U.K. usually happens here a few weeks later.”
Latest News
‘Alarming’ worldwide decline in mental health
The most dramatic finding was the difference in mental well-being between younger and older adults.