First they said yes to VNS, then no, then yes. And now they’re trying desperately to explain their final answer.

If, after reviewing our admittedly lukewarm evaluation of the VNS data, you decide that you want to offer it to your patients, here’s some useful information.

Most psychiatrists pretty much agree that all antidepressants are more or less equally effective. So if you start with that premise and you have 10-15 antidepressants out there, why are you picking one versus another? And what algorithm are we all using? Dr. Zimmerman developed a questionnaire for psychiatrists to fill out immediately after they wrote antidepressant prescriptions. We asked, “What influenced you to choose that medication?”

After reading these articles, you should be able to…

A typical psychiatrist spends 20 to 30 minutes with patients during medication visits. Those rare birds who still do therapy can devote 40 to 50 minutes. Either way, that’s not a lot of time in comparison to the rest of our patients’ lives, nor in comparison to the size of their problems.

Index to Volume 3, 2005 (issue:page) and Articles in Volume 3, 2005.

Greetings Dr. Gray. Your book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, has become a classic self-help book for couples seeking to improve their relationships. I understand that you had published another similar book before this one?

We couldn’t quite fit all of our reviews into this issue. Listed below are some more excellent books, all of which qualified for “honorable mention.”

After innumerable articles and books on the importance of genetic variants of P450 enzymes, it appears that the clinical pay-off just might be at hand.

Genetic counseling in psychiatry is a tricky proposition, because we are just starting to understand the complexity that underlies the genetic basis of psychiatric disease.