Commentary
Commentary
Beyond the Boxed Warning: A Call for Regulation of Psychiatry’s Most Teratogenic Drug
October 6, 2025
The authors assert that while valproate remains invaluable for certain severe conditions, the high risk of teratogenicity means stringent safeguards are needed to regulate its use by individuals capable...
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Prioritizing Mental Health to Optimize Perinatal, Fetal, and Neonatal Outcomes
September 24, 2025
Following an FDA panel discussion on use of SSRIs in pregnancy, the authors highlight the need for balanced conversations and shared decision-making accounting for the risks of untreated disease...
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Practitioners Providing Care for Persons with Severe Mental Disorders Should Routinely Screen for Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatotic Liver Disease
September 10, 2025
Persons with severe mental illnesses should be routinely screened for MASLD as part of a psychiatric and medical assessment that includes social and economic determinants of health, risk factors...
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Lower Risk of Cardiovascular Disorders in Antidepressant-Treated Women Veterans: Encouraging Findings but Concerns Remain
May 7, 2025
Comments on a study by Sumner et al that followed 609,546 women veterans for a mean of 8.8 years to look at associations of antidepressants with incident CVD.
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Eating Disorders Among Transgender and Gender Diverse People: Qualitative Analysis of Reddit Threads
March 10, 2025
This subreddit analysis characterizes the body dissatisfaction and desire to eliminate gendered physical characteristics that transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people with eating disorders experience. Many on the subreddit...
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Can Our Collective Experiences As Clinicians Improve Mental Health Care?
July 17, 2024
Drs Rush and Tramontin discuss how simple outcomes, often patient reported, could facilitate evidence-based decision making by clinicians, administrators, and payors and provide the foundation for a learning health...
