Helen M. Farrell, MD

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Neuroimaging in psychiatry: Potentials and pitfalls

Author:: Robyn Thom, MD; Helen M. Farrell, MD

Advances in neuroimaging over the past 25 years have allowed for an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the structural and functional...

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‘Miracle cures’ in psychiatry?

Author:: Katherine Epstein, MD; Helen M. Farrell, MD

“I take very small doses of it regularly against depression and against indigestion, and with the most brilliant success.... it is only now that I...

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Mobile apps and mental health: Using technology to quantify real-time clinical risk

Author:: Ryan Hays, BS; Helen M. Farrell, MD; John Torous, MD

“And you can change it, you can influence it.”

– Steve Jobs

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Motherhood and the working psychiatrist

Author:: Katherine A. Kosman, MD, MBA; Helen M. Farrell, MD

“For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.” – Elizabeth Blackwell...

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Pharmacologic performance enhancement: What to consider before prescribing

Author:: Robyn Thom, MD; Helen M. Farrell, MD

Psychiatrists are increasingly finding themselves in the controversial position of 'gatekeeper' of these medications for enhancement purposes.

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Physician impairment: A need for prevention

Author:: Helen M. Farrell, MD

“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

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Sexual harassment and medicine

Author:: Helen M. Farrell, MD

Sexual harassment hit a peak of cultural awareness over the past year. Will medicine be the next field to experience a reckoning?

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Psychiatry 2.0: Experiencing psychiatry’s new challenges together

Author:: Helen M. Farrell, MD

In its quarterly publication, this new department will explore a diverse range of topics, including technology, social media, stigma, social...

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Malingering in apparently psychotic patients: Detecting it and dealing with it

Author:: Helen M. Farrell, MD; Nicholas M. Domaney, MD

Imagine you’re on call in a busy emergency department (ED) overnight. Things are tough. The consults are piling up, no one is returning your calls...

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Malingering

Author:: Helen M. Farrell, MD

Helen M. Farrell, MD, shares her clinical experience with assessing malingering patients.

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To best care for your patients, take care of yourself

Author:: Helen M. Farrell, MD

Regular practices that promote reflection are crucial to a psychiatrist’s compassion and self-preservation

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Practicing psychiatry via Skype: Medicolegal considerations

Author:: Helen M. Farrell, MD; Douglas Mossman, MD

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Dissociative identity disorder: No excuse for criminal activity

Author:: Helen M. Farrell, MD

Using multiple personalities as the basis of an insanity defense rarely is successful

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Did brain trauma lead to crime?

Author:: Helen M. Farrell, MD

Mr. P pleads not guilty to rape charges, claiming a head injury 8 years ago caused personality changes, psychosis, and violent behavior. Is he...