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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by Elisa Cascade; Amir H. Kalali, MD; and Jeffrey L. Cummings, 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. Cummings is from the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

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by Mordecai N. Potash, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Tulane University Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, New Orleans, Louisiana
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by Charles A. Morgan III, MD, MA; Gary Hazlett, PsyD; Mike Dial-Ward, PhD;
Steven M. Southwick, MD

Drs. Morgan and Southwick are from the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Dr. Hazlett is with Woodward-Cody Specialty Consultants, Inc. and was with US Army Special Warfare Training Center Psychologists, Fort Bragg, North Carolina at the time of this study; and Dr. Dial-Ward is with FASOTRAGRUPAC, US NAS, North Island, Coronado, California.

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by Carolina D. Nisenoff, MD

Captain, United States Air Force, Medical Corps, Mental Health Clinic, 18th Medical Operations Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan.

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by Ronald Pies, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts USM, Boston, Massachusetts

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by Michael T. Lardon, MD

Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine

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