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Now in its 15th year, Primary Psychiatry is the largest circulation, peer-reviewed psychiatric journal in the U.S., with a monthly readership of more than 65,500 primary care physicians and psychiatrists.

Founded in 1994, MBL Communications, Inc. is the independent publisher of the monthly journals Primary Psychiatry and CNS Spectrums, as well as Psychiatry Weekly – the first weekly psychiatric news and information service in the country. With its accredited partner, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, MBL develops a wide range of educational CME programs in the CNS market including exclusive HyperCD^® technology designed to capture “Live Symposia”, academic & roundtable monograph supplements, and CD-ROM based multi-media programs, as well as handbook reference guides and international editions of both journals.

Editor's Note

Treating Sleep Disorders in Patients with Psychiatric Disorders

Norman Sussman, MD

In this issue of Primary Psychiatry, an article by Surilla Randall, PhD, and colleagues, provides an overview of what is known regarding the efficacy and safety of popular nonprescription products used for insomnia. more...

Profiles in Psychiatry

In Session with James D. King, MD: The Status of the Primary Care Field in Relation to Psychiatric Care

James D. King, MD, interviewed by Norman Sussman, MD

Dr. King is president of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), which respresents 94,000 physicians and medical students nationwide. He is volunteer faculty at the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences, Memphis, and medical director of Chester County Healthcare Services in Selmer. In 1997, Dr. King received the Family Physician of the Year Award from the Tennessee Academy of Family Physicians. As member of the board of directors of FamMedPAC, the AAFP’s political action committee, Dr. King advocates the legislative goals of family medicine to members of Congress. more...

Clinical Focus

Melatonin, Circadian Dysregulation, and Sleep in Mental Disorders

Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal, MSc, Ilya Trakht, PhD, Gregory M. Brown, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FRSC, and Daniel P. Cardinali, MD, PhD

Sleep is a behavioral process that is governed by both homeostatic and circadian processes. While the intensity and duration of sleep is governed mainly by the homeostatic process (sleep debt), the timing of sleep is orchestrated by the anterior hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN). more...