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Comparing Cholinesterase Inhibitors

October 1, 2003
Daniel Carlat, MD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Daniel Carlat, MD Dr. Carlat has disclosed that he has no significant relationships with or financial interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
If you were in TCR's editorial offices, surrounded by boxes of articles about acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEI’s), you would quickly develop a sinking sensation. Not because the articles are so boring (though, in fact, they are); rather, because the pharmaceutical hype-sters are back on parade once again.
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Alzheimer’s Dementia: A Primer

October 1, 2003
Daniel Carlat, MD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Daniel Carlat, MD Dr. Carlat has disclosed that he has no significant relationships with or financial interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Plaques and Tangles, Amyloid deposits and Apo-E: Who can keep them straight? Unless you are a researcher, all you really need to know is how to diagnose dementia, and how to dose the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor du jour.
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Preventing Dementia: What Works

October 1, 2003
Daniel Carlat, MD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Daniel Carlat, MD Dr. Carlat has disclosed that he has no significant relationships with or financial interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
We'd all like to escape dementia in our old age. Over the past decade, numerous large scale epidemiological studies have been published singing the praises of a variety of agents that might prevent or delay dementia.
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Dr. Marc Agronin on The Evaluation of Dementia

October 1, 2003
Marc Agronin, M.D.
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Marc Agronin, M.D.Marc Agronin, M.D. Director of Mental Health Services, Miami Jewish Home & Hospital for the Aged Assistant Professor of Psychiatry,University of Miami School of Medicine




Dr. Agronin, as the "Director of Mental Health Services" at the Miami Jewish Home & Hospital for the Aged, what do you actually do?
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Call it “Alzheimer-Kraepelin’s Disease”

October 1, 2003
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Aloys Alzheimer was a German neurohistologist who was such a workaholic that he would examine brain tissue throughout the night, catching a few hours of sleep the next day before beginning all over again.
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Beware Benadryl!

October 1, 2003
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Dr. Renee Snow completed a geriatric psychiatry fellowship at Mclean Hospital and is now in private practice in North Andover, MA.
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Lamictal: Miraculous? Not Quite

September 1, 2003
Daniel Carlat, MD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Daniel Carlat, MD Dr. Carlat has disclosed that he has no significant relationships with or financial interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Lamictal (lamotrigine) has been approved! The only problem is that few people can quite comprehend what it's been approved for.
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Topamax: Weight Loss Plus

September 1, 2003
Daniel Carlat, MD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Daniel Carlat, MD Dr. Carlat has disclosed that he has no significant relationships with or financial interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Topamax (topiramate), oddly enough, is a derivative of fructose. It is strange that one of the very few psychotropics to cause weight loss is closely related to sugar, but there you have it. It is only approved as adjunctive therapy for seizure treatment by the FDA.
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Trileptal: Everyone’s Using It!

September 1, 2003
Daniel Carlat, MD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Daniel Carlat, MD Dr. Carlat has disclosed that he has no significant relationships with or financial interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Suddenly, we all have a colleague who is prescribing Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) for bipolar disorder, and who is claiming to have fabulous success.
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Dr. Claudia Baldassano on Interviewing Tips in Bipolar Disorder

September 1, 2003
Claudia Baldassano, M.D.
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Claudia Baldassano, M.D.Claudia Baldassano, M.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Bipolar Disorders Outpatient Clinic, University of Pennsylvania




Dr. Baldassano, as the Director of the Bipolar Outpatient Clinic of U Penn, how many patients with bipolar disorder do you typically evaluate in a given week?
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