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Family members can tell you about your patient’s level of functioning, can confirm sleeping and eating schedules, and raise questions about cultural beliefs and values, says Alison Heru, MD, a professor of psychiatry at University of Colorado School of Medicine,...

Lithium’s effectiveness for mania in children is surprisingly robust. The Collaborative Lithium Trials, which is the largest double-blind placebo-controlled study to date, found lithium to be both effective and well tolerated in patients ages 7-17 with bipolar disorder (Findling et...

In his article "How To Read a Research Article" from The Carlat Psychiatry Report, Joshua Sonkiss, MD, Medical Director for Fairbanks Community Mental Health Services and Boys and Girls Home of Alaska in Fairbanks, reviewed and explained the different types...

When used appropriately, screen media can be useful rather than harmful. But with children, there must be limits, says Mary G. Burke, MD of the Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation in San Francisco, who covered the topic in The Carlat Child...

Earlier this month, five Insys Therapeutics pharmaceutical executives were found guilty of racketeering for their attempts to bribe doctors to prescribe the company's Subsys fentanyl spray, which was approved as a pain reliever for cancer patients, to people who didn't...