It’s likely your patients have asked you about esketamine. The buzz is that it’s a rapid-acting miracle cure for suicidal depression. Dr. Thomas Insel, former director of NIMH, declared that ketamine “might be the most important breakthrough in antidepressant treatment...

CHPR: Can you start by telling us about yourself? Dr. Tormoehlen: Sure. I am a neurologist and have completed a medical toxicology fellowship. I am an attending physician for the neurology service at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, as well...

During morning rounds at your inpatient unit, you are informed by staff that your patient M, a 32-year-old woman with bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, has swallowed a small pencil. This is her fourth swallowing episode since her admission...

Review of: Leucht S et al, Am J Psychiatry 2020;177(4):342–353 (published correction appears in Am J Psychiatry 2020;177(3):272) How high should we go when dosing antipsychotics in schizophrenia? Surprisingly little is known about optimal doses. During drug development, dosing is...