Tara Haelle

Contributing Writer https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com

Tara Haelle is a freelance science/health journalist specializing in vaccines, infectious disease, pediatrics, women's health, mental health, and other medical research. She is the AHCJ Medical Studies Core Topic Leader, and her work appears in The New York Times, Forbes, NPR, Scientific American, Self, Medscape, and elsewhere. She authored Vaccination Investigation: The History and Science of Vaccines and a dozen children’s science books. She coauthored The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child’s First Four Years with journalist Emily Willingham. Follow her @tarahaelle or find her on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/tarahaellejournalist/

All articles by Tara Haelle

General Psychiatry

A Neurology and Psychiatry Merger: Quest for the Inevitable?

Tara Haelle

February 21, 2019

Perhaps it is that tension between undeniable differences and inevitable merging that has led to more recent calls for cross-disciplinary cooperation.

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General Psychiatry

Don’t Hate the Player: Controversy Over Gaming as Mental Disorder Levels Up

Tara Haelle

February 1, 2019

Experts weigh in on the topic of gaming disorder and the evidence to support it as a diagnosis.

Practice Management

Doctors and the D Word: Talking About Death Is an Essential Skill — and One Often Lacking

Tara Haelle

September 14, 2018

The reasons for physicians’ discomfort with conversations about dying are as much cultural, social, and systemic as they are personal.

Bipolar Disorder

FDA Approval of Medication With a Digital Monitoring System: Major Breakthrough or “Brave New World”?

Tara Haelle

July 23, 2018

Abilify MyCite adds a digital sensor to the medication aripiprazole. The sensor, an ingestible event marker, is activated by contact with stomach acids and transmits a signal to a skin patch the patient wears, which then transmits to an app.

Schizophrenia Advisor

Holistic Sleep Experiences Crucial to Understanding Psychosis

Tara Haelle

June 28, 2018

While researchers continue learning about specific interactions between poor sleep and psychotic symptoms, clinicians should be incorporating more comprehensive questions about sleep into their assessment of patients.

Autism Spectrum Disorders

How Parents Can Enhance Autism Treatment: Use of Intervention Strategies at Home

Tara Haelle

April 27, 2018

Parents using intervention strategies in addition to the interventionist working directly with the child can be very beneficial, as an interventionist only gets to see a child for a few hours a week.

Autism Spectrum Disorders

Comorbid Autism Spectrum Disorder and OCD: Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment

Tara Haelle

April 25, 2018

One of the requirements for diagnosing OCD is that the individuals don’t want to engage in their behaviors. However, youth with autism who have verbal skills often say that they feel content with their repetitive behaviors and have no interest in stopping them.