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Psychopharm Secrets: What Patients Won’t Tell You

November 4, 2024

Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

How to assess med response when the patient reports is a poor guide: long-term mood stabilizers, sleep meds, and rapid cycling.

RESEARCH UPDATE

Optimizing Sleep Timing for Night Shift Workers

April 1, 2024

Xavier Preud’homme, MD

Xavier Preud'homme, MD. Dr. Preud’homme has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Night shift work poses significant challenges, with one in five workers experiencing sleep disturbances. A study comparing morning and evening sleep sheds light on managing shift work disorder.

Clinical Update

Managing Insomnia in Older Adults

December 31, 2023

Julia Cromwell, MD

Julia Cromwell, MD. Medical Director, Senior Adult Psychiatry Unit, Salem Hospital, Salem, MA.

Dr. Cromwell has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Treating insomnia in older adults often comes with harms. Here we review how to get the diagnosis right, how to optimize treatment without medications, and how to find safer and more affordable medications when needed.

Research Update

A New Intervention for Shift-Work Disorder

April 14, 2023

Xavier Preud’homme, MD

Xavier Preud’homme, MD. Dr. Preud’homme has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Is it better to sleep after the night shift or wait until the afternoon?

Improving Sleep in Children and Adolescents

February 19, 2023

Joshua Feder, MD and Mara Goverman

Learn how clinicians can enhance their patient’s quality of life by improving sleep outcomes.

7 Tips for Better Sleep

March 14, 2022

Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

A new app for insomnia might also lift depression. We show you how it works and end with 7 practical tips to share with your patients who have insomnia.

A Longer Acting Lorazepam

March 4, 2022

Chris Aiken, MD.

Chris Aiken, MD. Editor-in-Chief of The Carlat Psychiatry Report.

The straight facts on Loreev, a new extended-release formulation of lorazepam (Ativan).

Sleepwalking on Antipsychotics and Lithium

November 5, 2021

Thomas Jordan, MD.

Thomas Jordan, MD. Dr. Jordan has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Sleepwalking is a rare side effect on psychiatric medications, particularly hypnotics and antidepressants. A new analysis explores whether lithium and the antipsychotics should be added to that list.

Tools to Help Kids and Teens to Sleep Better

October 18, 2021

Rafael Pelayo, MD, FAASM

Rafael Pelayo, MD, FAASM Clinical professor and Associate Division Chief for Community Commitment and Engagement for the Sleep Medicine Division, Stanford University School of Medicine. President, California Sleep Society. Author of How to Sleep: The New Science-Based Solutions for Sleeping Through the Night (Artisan, 2020). Dr. Pelayo has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Poor sleep is a drag on daily function and a central factor in psychopathology, however typical sleep hygiene advice has little impact in everyday practice. In this article, Dr Rafael Pelayo takes us to the next level of understanding and helping patients and families with straightforward ideas that can begin during everyday office visits.

Light Therapy: Good for What Ails You?

September 28, 2021

Edmund S. Higgins, MD.

Edmund S. Higgins, MD. Clinical associate professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Higgins has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

The health benefits of light therapy are expanding its use beyond winter depression. Here we explore those promises and pitfalls, including ADHD, PTSD, bipolar depression, binge eating, sleep disorders, dementia, sexual dysfunction, traumatic brain injury, diabetes, and arthritis.