01-Jun-2012

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common, distressing, and debilitating consequence of the...

01-Jun-2012

Despite decades of intense research and development, current treatments for schizophrenia (SZ) have...

01-Jun-2012

The history of the field of biological psychiatry can be cynically encapsulated by the quest to...

15-May-2012

There is an odd irony associated with the by-now almost ineluctable tie between reinforcement...

15-May-2012

One of the pivotal diagnostic distinctions in psychiatry is between bipolar disorder and...

01-May-2012

In this issue of Biological Psychiatry, Grothe et al. () report that the atrophy of basal forebrain...

01-May-2012

Both depression and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are common conditions in older adults, yet,...

01-May-2012

The use-it-or-lose-it theory posits that the brain can be influenced by how we use it, much like a...

15-Apr-2012

In this issue, Bossong et al. () report that delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary...

15-Apr-2012

Adolescence is a period of intense vulnerability to drug use initiation, and adolescents may be...