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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. Health care professionals should monitor the child’s growth and development and provide necessary interventions to mitigate weight loss.”

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Screen Time and Summer

Child Mind Intitute

What do you want your kids to do for their health and well-being over the summer? Because of the intense national conversation about the effect of screens on youth development and mental health, it’s easy to be confused, as a parent, about what to do about screens. They listen to books on tape or music as they go to sleep.”

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Beyond the Chemical Imbalance: Looking to the Past to Understand the Mental health Crisis

Mad in America

With convenience right at our fingertips, it seems paradoxical that, despite our relative prosperity, we suffer some of the highest rates of mental illness compared to any other part of the world, with more than 1 in 5 US adults living with mental illness. If that were the case, most of us would not be sitting here today.

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Dreaming with Purpose: How the Mind’s Hidden GPS Can Guide Us Toward Personal and Societal Healing

Mad in America

For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. What if these unsettling mental imageries aren’t glitches in our mental software? What if they’re urgent messages from abuilt-in navigation systemdesigned to guide us through life?

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Symptoms and Surface Psychology

Mad in America

Signs refer to what can be objectively seena head wound, for instance, whereas a symptom is the subjective experience (my head hurts). Nevertheless, psychiatrists approach the mental in a similar way doctors approach the physical (remember, psychiatrists are ultimately medical doctors, and must go through the same core training).

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History, Physiology, and Pharmacology of Incretins

Psychiatric Times

Soon after, in 1932, Jean La Barre coined the word incretin to refer to a ligand that stimulates the endocrine pancreas. In addition, semaglutide is approved for weight management in individuals 12 years and older, and liraglutide is approved for T2DM in individuals 10 years of age and older. References 1. 2025;95:102118.

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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.” References 1. Do it slightly differently each time, and preferably with increasing levels of associative limbic cues (humor? Stahl SM, Davis RL. Best Practices for Medical Educators, 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press; 2011 2.

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