After reading these articles, you should be able to…

A typical psychiatrist spends 20 to 30 minutes with patients during medication visits. Those rare birds who still do therapy can devote 40 to 50 minutes. Either way, that’s not a lot of time in comparison to the rest of our patients’ lives, nor in comparison to the size of their problems.

Index to Volume 3, 2005 (issue:page) and Articles in Volume 3, 2005.

Greetings Dr. Gray. Your book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, has become a classic self-help book for couples seeking to improve their relationships. I understand that you had published another similar book before this one?

We couldn’t quite fit all of our reviews into this issue. Listed below are some more excellent books, all of which qualified for “honorable mention.”

After innumerable articles and books on the importance of genetic variants of P450 enzymes, it appears that the clinical pay-off just might be at hand.

Genetic counseling in psychiatry is a tricky proposition, because we are just starting to understand the complexity that underlies the genetic basis of psychiatric disease.

Obviously, genetics and psychiatry is a huge topic. But let’s begin with a simple question. What does heritability mean?

As science continues to explore the genetic components of mental illness, concerns about eugenics cannot be far behind. Long before the days of prenatal diagnosis, and difficult decisions about whether or not to terminate a pregnancy, there was a debate in the pages of the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1942 about actually killing so-called “feebleminded” people.

Are antidepressants hazardous to a neonate’s health? The FDA implied as much this past summer, when they issued a new precaution and required all antidepressant makers to include something like this text (for Effexor) in their package inserts …