A meta-analysis of psychotherapy in depression challenges conventional wisdom.

What happens when 154 volunteers are randomized to stay off the screen for a week?

Four scenarios where a time-limited approach to medication is ideal.

Placebo response rates in antidepressant trials tend to run high, making it difficult to know whether an active medication has truly beneficial effect. This research update unpacks possible reasons for this phenomenon that give you insight into how to treat your patients using a rational multimodal approach.

Are stimulant medication likely to exacerbate anxiety in ADHD kids? It’s reasonable concern, especially since mood symptoms can be worse with withdrawal and heart rate goes up in some kids on stimulants. This study gives nuanced insight into the degree to which stimulants impact anxiety in ADHD kids, for better and worse.

Autistic kids and teens can become despondent or suicidal. When this happens, we need to take it as seriously as with anyone else. We interviewed Dr. Paul Lipkin who has truly useful tips to help us modify our assessment to communicate effectively back and forth to address the problem.

Patients with psychiatric conditions are more likely than other patients to experience chronic pain and to receive opioid prescriptions. Dr. Lin shares her holistic approaches to pain management that incorporate psychosocial, psychotherapeutic, and psychopharmacologic treatments.