
AudioScholar Psychiatry Weekly
Psychiatry — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed psychiatry literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc.
Episodes

This Week in Psychiatry — Aug 17, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning precision treatment in mood disorders, the risks and realities of antidepressant use and discontinuation, the physical health gap in severe mental illness, and ne…
This week's papers:
1. Evidence based interventions for bipolar disorder across phases and age groups: living umbrella review, evaluation, analysis

This Week in Psychiatry — Aug 10, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering seven notable papers spanning psychedelic and trauma-focused psychotherapy trials, the hard problem of scaling and prevention when interventions are simplified or delivered universally, and…
This week's papers:
1. Psilocybin-assisted therapy for treatment-resistant major depressive disorder in a public healthcare setting: a randomized c

This Week in Psychiatry — Aug 3, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we are covering eight notable papers spanning the neurobiological subtypes of psychiatric disorders, the critical intersections of genetics, development, and environment in youth, and the long-term clinic…
This week's papers:
1. Association between maintenance doses of mood stabilizers and antipsychotics and risk of readmission in first-episode bipola

This Week in Psychiatry — Jul 31, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning three major clinical themes. First, we will examine novel pharmacotherapeutic approaches and their neurobiological mechanisms, focusing on oral semaglutide for…
This week's papers:
1. Oral Semaglutide for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial — The American Journal of Psychiatry 2026
2. Escitalop

This Week in Psychiatry — Jul 20, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning three broad themes: novel therapeutic targets and interventions in addiction, the optimization of pharmacotherapy and real-world prescribing patterns in mood di…
This week's papers:
1. Association of GLP-1 receptor agonists with alcohol use disorder-related and substance use disorder-related hospital admissi

This Week in Psychiatry — Jul 13, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning three broad themes: the neurobiological subtyping of psychiatric disorders, the developmental and behavioral determinants of mental health, and the future of cl…
This week's papers:
1. Association between childhood neglect and psychiatric disorders in adults: systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regress

This Week in Psychiatry — Jul 6, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 5 notable papers spanning two broad themes: first, how genetic predispositions, environmental stressors, and peer networks dynamically interact to shape psychiatric risk from childhood thro…
This week's papers:
1. Venous thromboembolism after mechanical restraint in psychiatric hospitals: population based cohort and self-controlled case

This Week in Psychiatry — Jun 30, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we are covering four notable papers spanning the neurobiological pathways of substance use and reward, and clinical strategies to optimize and personalize our treatment regimens. Let's dive in.
We begin…
This week's papers:
1. Brain lithium temporospatial kinetics in bipolar disorder: a repeated-measuresLi MRI study of dosing regimens in Germany. — T

This Week in Psychiatry — Jun 28, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we are covering 9 notable papers spanning three broad themes: advanced precision targeting and neuromodulation, biological subtypes and biomarkers in major psychiatric disorders, and optimization of clini…
This week's papers:
1. Targeting cortico-striatal-amygdalar networks via theta-band frontoparietal synchronization in opioid use disorder: a random

This Week in Psychiatry — Jun 21, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning pediatric and adolescent interventions, neurodevelopmental outcomes across the lifespan, and critical strategies for optimizing psychopharmacology and prescribing…
This week's papers:
1. Breastfeeding and Development of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms Across Childhood. — Biological Psychiatry

This Week in Psychiatry — Jun 14, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning neurodevelopment and environmental risk, novel therapeutics for severe mental illness, and future clinical strategies for dementia and youth mental health. Let's…
This week's papers:
1. Efficacy and target engagement of dopamine agonist pramipexole for anhedonic depression: a randomized placebo-controlled tria

This Week in Psychiatry — Jun 7, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning new insights into psychosis, innovations in therapeutics from brain circuits to digital aids, and key challenges in delivering care for youth and individuals with…
This week's papers:
1. A socially assistive robot to support mental wellbeing in LGBTQ+ young people at risk of self-harm: a randomized controlled t

This Week in Psychiatry — May 28, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning the biological architecture of mental illness, new directions in therapeutics, and key issues in clinical diagnostics and decision-making. Let's dive in.
Our fir…
This week's papers:
1. Early effects of a novel 5-HTR agonist (PF-04995274) and the SSRI citalopram on emotional cognition in unmedicated depressio

This Week in Psychiatry — May 14, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Psychiatry. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning neurodevelopment and aging, the fluidity of psychiatric diagnosis, and the future of targeted brain therapies. Let's dive in.
Our first theme this week is mappin…
This week's papers:
1. Post-traumatic stress disorder. — Nature reviews. Disease primers 2026
2. This is IT: How accelerated intermittent theta bur
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