From the Editor
From the Editor
Diagnosis 2.0: Are mental illnesses diseases, disorders, or syndromes?
Many phenotypes and genotypes manifest with similar clusters of psychiatric signs and symptoms
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Should psychiatry list hubris in DSM-V?
How about a diagnosis called ‘Gargantuan Greed’ to describe the banking executives who triggered the worldwide financial meltdown?
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Measuring cognition: Essential in clinical practice
You can start—if you haven’t already—by incorporating into your practice a brief cognitive battery.
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Adverse drug effects: An upside to the downside?
Some weight gain may be a necessary correlate of improvement in persons treated with antipsychotics
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CP + AACP > The sum of its parts
Bipolar disorder and ADHD is the theme of the AACP’s annual conference, to be held in April 2009.
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Contrarian patients in clinical trials: Lessons from exceptions
Unexpected drug response patterns or adverse effects may provide insights with practical applications.
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Self-deception : A double-edged trait
Psychiatric disorders are extremes of self-deception gone awry across complex neural pathways.
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Your vote, please: What’s ailing psychiatry?
Rank 17 challenges to psychiatry on a scale from 10 (highest importance) to 1 (lowest importance)
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Is schizophrenia recovery a ‘myth’?
I have obtained dramatic functional recovery after giving injectable second-generation antipsychotics continuously for 2 years or more
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Breakthrough drugs and sponsorless CME: How the FDA can help
Could extending pharmaceutical companies’ patents give us innovative treatments and independent CME funding?
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Bring back the asylums?
The tragic consequences of deinstitutionalization.