How do you combine CBT and psychopharm? What techniques are helpful for reducing hallucinations? Do you use CBT specifically to improve adherence to medications? These questions and more are addressed.

About 20% of patients with cancer develop major depression, and at least 60% present with significant symptoms of sadness and anxiety not severe enough to meet criteria for a DSM-4 disorder.

In 2005, the FDA issued a health advisory saying that antipsychotics appear to increase the risk of death in elderly patients with dementia. That advisory was based on data from placebo-controlled trials of antipsychotics conducted by industry. Now, a new study based on a completely different, and much larger, dataset, appears to confirm these dangers.

In a provocative study, rates of Ritalin prescriptions in Canada from 1994-2000 were compared with rates of divorce. The study focused on children ages 2-7, and found that in families that stayed intact during the study period, 3.3% of children were prescribed Ritalin.

One of the final major questions that the NIMH-funded CATIE trials promised to answer was whether atypical antipsychotics are better at improving cognition in schizophrenia than conventional agents, as some smaller studies implied.