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2 weeks ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | John J. Miller
The word science has its origins in the Latin word scientia, which translates to knowledge. Over the past several months, the institution of science has been in the news regularly, with its accompanying researchers and innovators expressing their concern about announcements of aggressive policy change from our new president’s administration, which will include significant defunding of science-based research.
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4 weeks ago | 
nationalreview.com | John J. Miller
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1 month ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | John J. Miller |Heidi Anne Duerr
Following the release of a joint statement1 from leading psychiatric organizations voicing concern over Executive Order 14212, Psychiatric Times spoke with its Editor-in-Chief, John J. Miller, MD, to discuss the implications of this federal directive and the response from the psychiatric community.
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1 month ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | John J. Miller
Every so often, a book comes along that serves as a nexus for a wide range of information, observations, phenomena, and intuitions that congeal into an “of course” moment of insight.
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2 months ago | 
nationalreview.com | John J. Miller
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2 months ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | John J. Miller
As 2025 began, US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, issued a health advisory warning about the link between alcohol use and the risk of cancer. I recommend a complete read of the 22-page advisory, which presents the facts and contains downloadable graphics that can be displayed in your office or clinic and even reproduced as handouts for patients.1The goal of the advisory was 2-fold.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
psychiatrictimes.com | John J. Miller
"Virtual medicine allowed for a lot of really high-quality consultations that used to be difficult due to geographical barriers and distance," said John J. Miller, MD, said about COVID-19's impact on the practice of psychiatry at the Real Psychiatry meeting. However, Miller is hesitant to fully commit to exclusive virtual psychiatric practice.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
psychiatrictimes.com | John J. Miller
CONFERENCE REPORTERAt the Real Psychiatry conference, we took a moment to chat with our Editor in Chief, John J. Miller, MD, about the exciting 40th anniversary of Psychiatric Times. In honor of this celebration, Miller shares his story of coming into psychiatry, 40 years of psychopharmacology history, and more. "It's remarkable that from 1985, when Psychiatric Times started, it was really a very different world," said Miller.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
psychiatrictimes.com | John J. Miller
Note: This article is a Sidebar to "The Tapestry of Neuroplasticity: Rewiring Our Brain" by John J. Miller, MD. After reading about cortical remapping of the monkey’s brain, neurologist V.S. Ramachandran, MD, PhD, surmised that a similar phenomenon may explain the baffling syndrome of phantom limb, which had befuddled medical researchers and clinicians alike since it was first described by Silas Weir Mitchell, MD, shortly after the Civil War.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
psychiatrictimes.com | John J. Miller
As Psychiatric Times celebrates its 40th year, psychiatry’s tapestry is just beginning. The threads that currently exist seem to be weaving into a magnificent fabric that we have named neuroplasticity. Our challenge and opportunity is to optimize all of the threads we currently understand and remain open to the many additional threads that are currently unknown or just beginning to appear.
