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Pilot Study Assesses Online Education as First Step for BPD Treatment

Psychoeducation is a common feature of effective treatments for borderline personality disorder (BPD), as patients need to understand the illness and the problems for which their treatments are prescribed. Lois W. Choi-Kain, MD, MEd, director of the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute at...

A Unique Research Career Inspired by a Medical Diagnosis

Laura Germine, PhD, thought that a chronic disease wouldn’t just affect her personal life. She also feared it would derail her career as a neuroscientist and researcher. Instead, her Type 1 diabetes diagnosis opened a new opportunity in which she would combine her skills as a software developer with...

Summit Envisions Future of Technology in Psychiatry

Technology is ubiquitous. Children have smartphones, octogenarians are savvy iPad users, and nearly everyone tracks steps and calories with wearables. It is no surprise that the field of psychiatry is forging a path toward using technology to revolutionize the way mental illnesses are diagnosed and...