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FDA Requires New Label Warning of Weight Loss Risk in Pediatric Patients Taking Extended-Release Stimulants for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

SHOW MORE The FDA will update ADHD medication labels, warning of weight loss risks in children under 6, urging careful monitoring by health care professionals. Healthcare professionals should monitor weight and growth in young patients on these medications and consider alternative treatments if adverse effects occur.

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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

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Their combined marketing power led to an unprecedented, carefully orchestrated promotional effort that fundamentally changed peoples understanding of mental health. They’re too exhausted from seeing patients, documenting notes in electronic health records, and dealing with the frustrations of our mechanized healthcare system.

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History, Physiology, and Pharmacology of Incretins

Psychiatric Times

FDA Indications, Potential Future Indications, and Areas of Investigation for GLP-1 RAs Soon after their introduction, GLP-1 RAs’ significant weight-lowering effects and health benefits in other medical disorders became apparent, with relatively greater metabolic and weight loss benefits reported with newer GLP-1 RAs and dual agonists.

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The Psychiatric Pipeline in Review: Quarter 2, 2025

Psychiatric Times

Learn more in this exclusive article. Cobenfy failed to meet the primary endpoint in a phase 3 trial for schizophrenia, but showed numerical improvement, warranting further investigation. SHOW MORE What disease states are most prominently featured in recent research?

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

Follow the age-old axiom of “say what you’re going to say, say it, and then say what you said.” Author(s): Joseph F. Goldberg, MD , Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD, DSc (Hon) Now more than ever, capturing and scaling the ingredients that make for compelling and impactful teaching for trainees is vital to our future.

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What Is “Care” in a Psychiatric Medical Camp for the Unhoused in India?

Mad in America

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in South Asia. O n the footpath, in a group of homeless people, sits a middle-aged saree-clad woman in absolute silence, looking nowhere. She was brought in along with a salwar-kameez wearing middle-aged woman. When asked her age, Lata said that she was 3 years old.

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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

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A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience.