Launched as Psychiatry 2004, the Journal title is updated each year with the year designation; thus, for 2009, the title becomes Psychiatry 2009 [ISSN 1550-5952]. Psychiatry 2009 is an electronic-only journal published monthly by Matrix Medical Communications (MMC) in Edgemont, Pennsylvania.

Editorial Mission. As psychiatric disorders are becoming more prevalent in the United States and abroad, today’s psychiatrist needs to stay informed on numerous topics related to the field. Patients are becoming more informed through direct-to-consumer advertising, the Internet, and various media outlets. Increasingly inquisitive patients, rising malpractice costs, and the implementation of HIPAA guidelines and Medicare Part D place tremendous pressure on practicing psychiatrists to keep up to date on several facets within the specialty and numerous asides that impact their practice and overall patient care. This is where Psychiatry 2009 comes in, providing pertinent information on vastly desirable topics from highly influential and respected leaders in the field.

Psychiatry 2009 is a peer-reviewed, monthly, electronic-only publication that has become an important addition to the field of psychiatry. Under the expert editorial leadership of Amir Kalali, MD, Psychiatry 2009 provides practicing psychiatrists with evidence-based information in a practical format that can be applied to their daily practices. Psychiatry 2009 is the only peer-reviewed journal that translates the vast amounts of psychiatric and CNS research into applicable information for the practicing clinician. Psychiatry 2009 offers its readers original research, practical discussions on the latest research, comprehensive reviews, didactic case reports, and provocative commentaries on contemporary topics in psychiatry—written by key opinion leaders as well as practicing clinicians who are “in the trenches”—providing vital balance to the research-rich literature that is already available.

Indexing. Psychiatry 2009 is now indexed on PubMed Central, PsycINFO, CINAHL® Plus with Full Text, Scopus, and EMBASE.

Citing an article from Psychiatry 2009. When citing an article from Psychiatry 2009, the journal should be cited as Psychiatry (Edgemont). year;vol(no.):pages. The journal website url is www.psychiatrymmc.com, so it is not unusual to see the journal cited as Psychiatry MMC, though technically this is not correct. Edgemont is the name of the city where the journal is published and is used in the citation information to distinguish the journal from other indexed journals named Psychiatry.

Psychiatry 2009 is the foundation of the multimedia platform from which Matrix Medical Communications (MMC) provides information to the psychiatric community. Given the practice settings and the special interests of nearly 40,000 psychiatrists, our goal is to provide our information in print, on the Web, and on CD-ROM.

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