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Spotlighting Emerging Dementia in Its Many Iterations and Stages

Dementia’s devastation may slip under our notice unless we recognize its many manifestations in behavior, speech, and mood.

Psychiatry Has an Identity Crisis, and It’s a Problem for Patients

A subspecialty of medicine, psychiatry is caught in a scientific and philosophical wilderness and is attempting to find its way.

No Tsunami of Mental Illness Accompanies Covid-19

Patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were likely to be experiencing some anxiety (worried) or depressive symptoms (sad, pessimistic) that were not serious enough to justify a diagnosis of major depression or a serious anxiety disorder.

Cancer Patient Caregivers Are Being Forgotten in Suicide Risk

Patients, upon receiving a cancer diagnosis, experience such devastation that they contemplate suicide, and it brings untreated suffering to their caregivers.