Psychiatry Practice Boosters, Fifth Edition (2026)

Insights from research to enhance your clinical workAs a clinician, you need to keep up on the latest developments in psychiatry. But you can't possibly read every potentially relevant research study published each year. At Carlat Publishing, we try to make your life easier by sifting through the contents of the major psychiatric journals for you. The studies that meet our criteria-tackling interesting topics and yielding actionable recommendations for your practice-have made it into our new edition of Psychiatry Practice Boosters.This fifth edition teaches you the key points of 66 of the most clinically relevant studies in psychiatry from the last three years. This book includes a quick course in how to understand research design and statistics-so that you can be a more informed reader of the medical literature.Get research-based insight into these vital questions: How can we safely treat OUD in pregnancy? What are long-term patient outcomes with buprenorphine for OUD? What is the latest on medications for panic disorders? Is there a connection between depression and Alzheimer's disease? Is magnetic seizure therapy effective in mood disorders? How much is social media really impacting mental health? Read more