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Introducing the Borderline Personality Disorder Inventory

Psychiatric Times

SHOW MORE Discover the innovative Borderline Personality Disorder Inventory (BPD-I™), a psychodynamically-informed tool for assessing BPD symptoms effectively. Наталья Добровольска/AdobeStock Borderline personality disorder (BPD) remains one of the most commonly misunderstood and challenging diagnoses in mental health.

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The Moral World of Personality Disorder Assessment

Mad in America

W hen asked about her behavior during a psychiatric assessment for personality disorders, one patient’s response included this description: It was completely crazy. In the medical psychiatry, psychiatric diagnoses are often presented as neutral objects. I’m not quite that bad anymore.

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Presenting Our August Theme: ADHD

Psychiatric Times

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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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

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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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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The Psychiatric Pipeline in Review: Quarter 2, 2025

Psychiatric Times

Novel PDE10A Inhibitor for Acute Schizophrenia Exacerbation Presented at APA Annual Meeting CPL’36, a PDE10A inhibitor, showed significant improvements in PANSS scores in a double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled, parallel group phase 2 study for acute schizophrenia exacerbation. Those who received the 40 mg dose demonstrated a 16.4

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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

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.