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A MAPS study released this week estimates that public healthcare payers or private insurers making MDMA-assisted psychotherapy available to 1,000 patients for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder would cut healthcare costs by $103.2 million over 30 years. The study was published by the…

Psych Congress Steering Committee member Rakesh Jain, MD, MPH, recently joined 9-year-old Eleanor Barrett, a fourth-grader from Madison, Wisconsin, for a podcast on understanding and managing anxiety and nervousness. 

In a study to better understand how drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, form cellular memories that fuel compulsive behaviors, researchers say they have found a surprising culprit: astrocytes, a part of the glia class of brain support cells once thought to have no significant role in cognition or…

    In a survey of psychiatrists conducted by the American Psychiatric Association in May 20

Combining medication with psychoeducational therapy, especially in a family or group format, is more effective at preventing episode recurrence in adults and adolescents with bipolar disorder than medication alone, researchers report.

Maternal hypothyroidism in early pregnancy significantly raises the risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in offspring, according to a published study.

Recovery Centers of America has announced the recent addition of two senior managers to its executive team: Kerry King, PsyD, as vice president of clinical services and Stacie Runion as chief human resources officer.

Telepsychiatry for the treatment of depression offers equal or better patient satisfaction and symptom relief compared with face-to-face interventions, according to a systematic review published online in Community Mental Health Journal.

Cognitive behavioral therapy was found to reduce symptoms of insomnia among young adult binge drinkers in a pilot study recently released by the University of Missouri School of Medicine and published in the Sleep Research Society journal.