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Prescribing GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for Persons With Mental Disorders: Evidence-Based and Aspirational Targets
June 1, 2026
Evidence-based prescription of GLP-1 RAs in persons with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders holds promise to improve their health and wellbeing and possibly reduce excess mortality.
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Biography Inscribed in Biology: Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research and the Embodiment of Lived Experience
March 25, 2026
The DCPR framework, with its emphasis on allostatic overload, provides evidence that biography becomes biology and that lived experience is inscribed into our physiological systems.
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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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Communicating With Intubated Patients
July 2, 2026
Communication difficulties associated with critical illness and mechanical ventilation increase the likelihood of developing neuropsychiatric sequelae of critical illness and can worsen short- and long-term patient outcomes.
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Mind-Body Integration and East-West Fusion for Modern Medicine: Insights from the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research
March 25, 2026
Clinimetrics not only lays the methodological foundation for the promotion of the DCPR but also shows potential in interdisciplinary applications.
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Precision Medicine for Suicide Prevention: It’s Time to Take the Next Step
December 22, 2025
The authors recommend moving toward a precision medicine approach to suicide prevention that considers the person, their circumstances and biology, treatment delivery context, and conditions that contribute to the...
