Sleeping Pills: An Update While sleeping pills have been around for a long time, the modern age of hypnotics began December 16, 1992, when the FDA approved Ambien ...
Psychotherapy for OCD You're a cutting edge psychiatrist. Not only are you great with meds, but you have a passing knowledge of CBT (cognitive-behavior therapy) techniques for the ...
Neuroanatomy: A Very Short Course Five of the last six covers of the American Journal of Psychiatry have been chock-full of brains. We have learned from these issues ...
Using Psychiatric Meds for Pain Where does it hurt? These are the “four little words” that Eli Lilly (in ubiquitous ads) is encouraging us to ask our depressed ...
Therapy for PTSD: What You Should Know As you can see from this issue's lead article, SSRIs help alleviate core PTSD symptoms, but hardly roar by the placebo ...
What’s New in Eating Disorders? While few psychiatrists specialize in eating disorders, most of us see patients with anorexia or bulimia from time to time. It’s hard to ...
OCD: Back to Basics When we were planning this issue, several friends and readers were a bit surprised. "A whole issue on OCD? Is there anything new to ...
Sleep Naturally: Melatonin & Valerian Any of you who choose to do an informal survey of your patients will be surprised how many are taking a non-prescribed sleeping ...
