For those reluctant to make clozapine their go-to antipsychotic for certain patients, this article will provide information to help you decide when it’s right to prescribe.

In this article, I’ll start by briefly outlining what the research tells us about the risks of substance use to the fetus. The more informed you are about these risks, the more persuasive and helpful you can be to patients. I’ll then move on to discussing how, as an OB/GYN, I approach the evaluation and treatment of these patients, emphasizing issues of interest to clinicians.

You’ve tried different SSRIs and then some, but your patient either can’t tolerate what you’ve prescribed or simply hasn’t experienced a lift in mood. Now what? Dr. Gitlin has some ideas.

The latest official statement on psychotherapies from the American Psychological Association more or less states that all techniques are equally effective, and it’s likely that the skills of individual therapists are as important as the specific technique they choose. This is all well and good, but meanwhile, in the real world, we need to make decisions about how to treat specific patients. If we wait for the definitive answers from research, we will be waiting for a very long time. This article details certain well-known techniques drawn from the broad umbrella of cognitive behavior therapy.

Dr. Burke has been helping patients of all ages, as well as the general public, address this in practical and socially acceptable ways since 1999. In this article she explains how screen media are not biologically neutral. They are, by design, addictive for susceptible individuals; further, they are deleterious for babies and must be used wisely with young children.