by James E. Swain, MD, PhD

Yale Child Study Center, Program for Risk, Resilience and Recovery, New Haven, Connecticut

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by Sara G. West, MD, and Susan Hatters Friedman, MD

Dr. West is from the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals/ Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio; Dr. Friedman is from the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals/ Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and from Forensic Psychiatry, Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare in Northfield, Ohio.

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by Katherine T. Klykylo, MHSA, ACSW, and William M. Klykylo, MD

Ms. Klykylo is with the Psychiatric Emergency Services, a joint program of the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry and the Washtenaw County Health Organization (WCHO) in Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Dr. Klykylo is the Professor and Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio.

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by ATMARAM YARLAGADDA, MD; SHAIFALI KAUSHIK, MD; and ANITA H. CLAYTON, MD

Dr. Yarlagadda is from Newport News, Virginia; Dr. Kaushik is with Shields Healthcare Group in Stockton, Massachusetts; and Dr. Clayton is Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

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by Elisa Cascade; Amir H. Kalali, MD; and Richard H. Weisler, MD

Ms. Cascade is Vice President, Quintiles Inc./iGuard, Falls Church, Virginia; Dr. Kalali is Vice President, Global Therapeutic Group Leader CNS, Quintiles Inc., San Diego, California, and Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego; and Dr. Weisler is an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

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by Edmund Howe, MD, JD

Dr. Howe is Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Director, Programs in Medical Ethics, and Senior Scientist, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.

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by Steven D. Targum, MD, and Alan J. Milbauer, RPh, JD

Dr. Targum is an executive-in-residence at Oxford BioScience Partners and on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Targum is chief medical officer at BrainCells Inc., and chief medical advisor to Prana Biotechnology Ltd. Dr. Targum is on the editorial staff of Psychiatry 2008. Mr. Milbauer is retired after 32 years with AstraZeneca and its predecessor companies; his last position was Vice-President, Public Affairs.

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by Randy A. Sansone, MD, and Lori A. Sansone, MD

Dr. R. Sansone is a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio, and Director of Psychiatry Education at Kettering Medical Center in Kettering, Ohio; Dr. L. Sansone is a family medicine physician (government service) and Medical Director of the Primary Care Clinic at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or the position of the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, or US government.

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