Are all psychotherapies equally effective for the treament of depression? Or do cognitive behavioral techniques clearly rise above the pack, as implied by the amount of media coverage they receive?

Dr. Hollon, your work as a psychologist and researcher focuses on the treatment and etiology of depression. What in particular do you study?

Dr. Raison, you are involved in some interesting research about the connections between inflammation and depression. Tell us about it.

Traditional treatment for trichotillomania involves medications used to treat obsessive compulsive disorder.

Most people with bipolar disorder are maintained on antidepressants, but the evidence base is rather meager. In a recent trial, researchers recruited 70 patients with bipolar disorder, all of whom had responded to a combination of a mood stabilizer and an antidepressant.

After reading these articles, you should be able to…

Telepsychiatry is a sub-field of telemedicine that refers to the use of videoconferencing to treat patients in other locations. This used to be an expensive proposition, requiring special videoconferencing equipment, but now anybody with a modern laptop computer and a webcam can videoconference...

Do you know what comes up when you enter your name into an online search engine? Go ahead, try it.

Tired of telling patients to go to WebMD.com or…yawn…NIMH.nih.gov for their Internet information needs? Here are some alternatives that will probably keep your patients a little more engaged, and as a result, more educated.

Dr. Luo, there are so many forms of electronic communication out there now—from email to blogs to Twitter. What do psychiatrists need to know about using technology to communicate with our patients?