Psychiatry: Features

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Irritability in children; molecular depression; choosing depression treatments; good-quality psychotherapy studies; psychedelic drugs in psychiatric research; borderline personality disorder; genomic imprinting; 1000 genomes; methylation and behavior; the hippocampus in schizophrenia; antipsychotics and reasoning biases; and monitoring lithium

• January 24, 2011

Emerging Perspectives: Epigenetics — A Mechanism for the Impact of Experience on Inheritance?

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Was Lamarck right?

• By Steven Dubovsky, MD
• October 18, 2010

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Smoking bans and smoking treatment; new heuristics for post-traumatic stress disorder; visualizing neurons; and the genetics of autism

• July 26, 2010

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Exercise for anxiety and cognition; alternative treatments; paternal postpartum depression; Do-Not-Resuscitate orders and suicide; sleep; paraneoplastic disorders; and visualizing neurons

• July 12, 2010

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Polymorphisms in the serotonin receptor gene; fear circuitry; imaging functional connectivity; biology and treatment of borderline personality disorder; origins of diagnostic criteria; schizophrenia risk after prenatal infection; Y chromosomes in chimps and men; the epigenome

• April 5, 2010

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On cognitive enhancers, treatments for depression, prodromal signs of psychosis, gene–environment interactions, and addressing mutations in mitochondrial DNA

• November 16, 2009

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Depression after ACS; inflammatory markers; medical and prenatal issues with ECT; bone loss in anorexia nervosa patients; preventing PTSD; trajectories of brain development; and genetics of mental retardation

• June 15, 2009

Emerging Perspectives: Update on Genome-Wide Association Studies

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Five new essays provide insights into the state of research and possibilities for the future.

• By Peter Roy-Byrne, MD, and Joel Yager, MD
• April 17, 2009

Emerging Perspectives: Effectively Addressing Depression in Low-Income Mothers

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Maternal depression hurts children, and screening-only programs are insufficient, but brief therapies hold great value.

• By Peter Roy-Byrne, MD
• March 16, 2009

Emerging Perspectives: Diabetes and the Brain

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Recent studies examine the importance of glucose to brain functioning in elders.

• By Jonathan Silver, MD
• March 9, 2009