In Part 2 of this podcast series, Dr Smith continues his discussion of the practice of nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents.

Listen to Dr Smith discuss why the practice of nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescents—cutting, burning, self-hitting or banging, scratching, interfering with wound healing—may be increasing.

In the second in his series of podcasts, Dr Phillip Resnick answers questions psychiatrists often ask about assessing the risk of violence.

Listen to Dr Michael Blumenfield, president elect of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychiatry, discuss an article that he has nominated as his choice for Top Paper of the Year.

Dr Eric D. Caine is chair of our 2-part Special Report on suicide. Dr Caine is the John Romano Professor and chair in the department of psychiatry at the University of Rochester, Medical Center. In this podcast, Dr Caine discusses the many issues associated with suicide and touches on specific articles in this Special Report.

Listen to Dr Weissman discuss why he thinks Dr Daniel Carlat's Psychiatric Times article is important to psychiatrists—and hear him challenge the premise that we really do need 45,000 more psychiatrists.

L That’s the question we put to Dr. Kenneth Saag, who is Jane Knight Lowe Professor of Medicine in the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In the next few minutes, Dr Saag, who is also Professor of Epidemiology, at the UAB School of Public Health, will summarize the latest developments in osteoporosis therapy.

Listen to Dr Balon discuss why he thinks Dr James Lake's Psychiatric Times article is important to psychiatrists—and hear him summarize the teaching points he thinks could affect the way patients with ADHD are treated.

Dr David Osser has chosen as one of the Top Papers of the Year a meta-analysis by Chung and Chua on second generation antipsychotics and the effects of these agents on patients with schizophrenia.

It has long been known that total cholesterol levels are consistently lower in severely depressed patients. Since the 1980s, when national attention began to focus on reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease with statins, there have been growing concerns that chronic cholesterol depletion may actually increase noncardiovascular deaths by suicide and violence-related deaths.