Botulinum toxin A, commonly known as Botox, may be more than an anti-aging treatment. A new study has found that when Botox is injected between the eyebrows, it not only has a cosmetic effect—it also yields a long-lasting antidepressant effect.
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Get some practical advice on how to assess a patient’s suicide risk and document your care to help protect against a malpractice lawsuit, in an interview with William H. Reid, MD, MPH, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
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Dr. Aiken is the Editor in Chief of The Carlat Psychiatry Report; director of the Mood Treatment Center in North Carolina, where he maintains a private practice combining medication and therapy along with evidence-based complementary and alternative treatments; and Assistant Professor NYU Langone Department of Psychiatry. He has worked as a research assistant at the NIMH and a sub-investigator on clinical trials, and conducts research on a shoestring budget out of his private practice. Follow him on Twitter and find him on LinkedIn.
KarXT (Cobenfy) is the first antipsychotic that doesn’t block dopamine. We trace the origins of this new drug to a South Asian herb used for over 5,000 years, up to the three...