Last night at APA’s Convocation of Distinguished Fellows, Edward “Ted” Kennedy Jr. urged psychiatrists to be active advocates for their patients and their practices in state and federal legislative bodies. His address came exactly 20 years after his father—the renowned late senator from Massachusetts—spoke at APA’s Convocation. Read more here.
Psychosis may be essentially a disorder of learning and memory mediated by impaired glutamate signaling in the hippocampus, causing disruptions in synaptic encoding of memories, according to schizophrenia expert Carol Tamminga, M.D. Read more here.
Can we eliminate bullying from our schools and communities? The answer is complicated but taking certain steps advised by psychiatrist Stuart Twemlow, M.D., can lead to positive outcomes. Read more here.
Fundamentally, motivational interviewing is not a method or a “bag of tricks,” not something that can be done to someone, but something that is done with someone in a way that increases the likelihood that the patient will become more committed to change, according to Petros Levounis, M.D. Read more here.