From the Editor
From the Editor
Psychiatry’s future shock
“I recall reading Future Shock during medical school. This seminal book jarred and inspired me with its predictions of how rapid change will be...
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The travesty of disparity and non-parity
Senseless, unethical discrimination against mental illness goes on unabated, despite lip service by politicians and policy-makers.
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Repositioning psychotherapy as a neurobiological intervention
Psychotherapy should be reconceptualized, rebranded, and repositioned—for the good of our patients.
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One shade of gray, 50 shades of ignorance
Some people ignore evidence supporting the science and practice of psychiatry—holding on instead to obsolete knowledge that is, simply, ignorance...
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Misdiagnosing bipolar depression as major depressive disorder
During my residency, I was never urged to distinguish if a depression is unipolar or bipolar because the treatment was the same!
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A saga of psychiatric serendipities…
…and of evolutions, paradigm shifts, and radical breakthroughs in psychiatric therapies.
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Let’s tear down the silos and reunify psychiatry and neurology!
Psychiatry is as much anchored in the brain as its sister specialty neurology is.
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Haloperidol clearly is neurotoxic. Should it be banned?
Why use an old and harmful antipsychotic when safer alternatives are available?
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Beyond dopamine: The ‘other’ effects of antipsychotics
Ask any psychiatrist how antipsychotics (APs) work and the overwhelming response will be “by blocking dopamine receptors.”
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Staging psychiatric disorders: A clinico-biologic model
It’s time for psychiatry to adopt a staging schema based on clinical progression and neurobiology
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Pleiotropy of psychiatric disorders will reinvent DSM
Momentous discoveries about the shared neurogenetics of psychiatric disorders eventually will render DSM-5 obsolete