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Presenting Our August Theme: ADHD

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children, highlighting its significant prevalence and rising diagnosis rates. children, highlighting its significant prevalence and rising diagnosis rates. children, highlighting its significant prevalence and rising diagnosis rates.

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Introducing the Borderline Personality Disorder Inventory

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Наталья Добровольска/AdobeStock Borderline personality disorder (BPD) remains one of the most commonly misunderstood and challenging diagnoses in mental health. Despite its clinical significance, few assessment tools exist that reflect the complex intrapsychic reality of borderline pathology as it presents in everyday practice.

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Eyes, Ears, and Emotion: Techniques to Tackle Diagnosing Bipolar Disorder

Psychiatric Times

Emerging research on RNA biomarkers, AI applications, and genetic mutations shows promise for developing new diagnostic tools for bipolar disorder. This gap can lead to misdirected treatments, worsening symptoms, and life altering consequences, but the delay is partly due to the disorder’s complex and often difficult to quantify presentation.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

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2 Realizing that, modern medical educators often morph traditional Socratic questioning into the embedding of “audience response questions” (ARS) within formal presentations. Figure 1 presents a modified version of this conceptualization highlighting the role of the educator as facilitator.

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Exploring NMDA Antagonists for MDD

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Visualizing Novel Therapeutic Targets for Patients with Major Depressive Disorder. Presented at: Southern California Psychiatry Conference; July 11-12, 2025; Huntington Beach, CA. For more coverage of the Southern California Meeting, visit PsychiatricTimes.com. References 1.

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Are You Ready for the Southern California Psychiatry Conference?

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Steven Moffic, MD Related Content Advertisement July 3rd 2025 Young Researchers Featured at Conference of Society for Digital Mental Health Kenneth J.

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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

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Curiously, anticholinergic medications, including benztropine, diphenhydramine, and trihexyphenidyl, are commonly used to treat all antipsychotic-induced movement disorders despite the fact that they make TD worse and have no benefit for akathisia. Ms Robbins presents to your office for a follow-up visit.