AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Psychiatric emergencies, coping stress reactions, and iatrogenic injuries are not responded to with the same vigor as acute medical decompensation. That needs to change.

Entrainment can distract from pain and offer a means of witnessing important health care experiences.

Neurobiological markers raise complex questions about what it means to be “at risk.”

Neuromodulation has ethical implications for self-identity and public communication of scientific findings.

What are insurance, contract, and criminal law implications of detecting Alzheimer’s disease early?

Medical ethics concerns about the use of memory-modulating technologies should not override individual decisions about their use in clinical contexts.

Disparities in children’s mental health care could be addressed through expansion of school-based programs via passage of the Mental Health in Schools Act.

Researchers and clinicians face ethical and policy-based challenges in disclosing, preventing and treating psychosis. Which diagnostic labels should be considered to motivate more effective public and professional dialogue about psychosis risk?

Although the stigma of the psychosis risk label can cause harm, the label can also confer benefit and provides an explanatory framework for symptoms.

McMaster University’s medical school curriculum promotes compassionate, person-centered care by incorporating the views of persons with disabilities.