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Dear Readers,
Once again, I am pleased to present the 10 most important stories in psychiatry in the past year, as selected by the editorial board of NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry.
As always, we looked for high clinical relevance, balanced with solid methodology, and every study we chose focused on improving clinicians' abilities to treat patients, whether by identifying the best options or highlighting the weaknesses of some once-touted approaches. Our stories concerned both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions — even in the age of great neuroscience discoveries, we cannot overlook the benefits of nonpharmacologic treatments.
Three stories highlighted nonmedication approaches. Clinical experience and small reports had suggested th…