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The Missing Perspectives in DSM

January 20, 2025

Kellie Newsome, PMHNP, Chris Aiken, MD, and Margaret S. Chisolm, MD

Margaret Chisolm shares the Perspectives model, a way of assessing patients that builds on the DSM takes the famous manual a few steps further.

2025 Carlat Psychiatry Report Self-Assessment Course

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January 14, 2025

The 2025 Carlat Psychiatry Report Self-Assessment Course includes all 10 newsletter issues from 2025 and the Hospital Psychiatry Fact Book (2025) for a total of 24 Category 1 CME Credits and 8 ABPN Self-Assessment Credits for Maintenance of Certification.

Psychopharm Secrets: Side Effects

January 13, 2025

Kellie Newsome, PMHNP and Chris Aiken, MD

Depression and cognitive impairment on benzos, tardive dyskinesia, anticholinergics, and neurotoxicity from high dose stimulants. These are the side effects that patients aren’t likely to notice until it’s too late.

Overdiagnosis with Allen Frances

January 6, 2025

Kellie Newsome, PMHNP, Chris Aiken, MD, and Allen Frances, MD

Allen Frances helped create DSM-IV, but in this episode he takes on its diagnostic overreach.

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Fact Sheet on the Inpatient Unit

January 1, 2025

Victoria Hendrick, MD and Daniel Carlat, MD

Dr. Hendrick and Dr. Carlat have no financial relationships with companies related to this material.
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive neuromodulation technique primarily used to treat major depressive disorder.

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Functional Neurological Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment

January 1, 2025

Daniel Carlat, MD

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Functional neurological disorder (FND) refers to neurological symptoms that are inconsistent with or cannot be fully explained by medical or neurological conditions.

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Factitious Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment

January 1, 2025

Daniel Carlat, MD

Dr. Carlat and Dr. Puzantian have no financial relationships with companies related to this material.
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People with factitious disorder aren’t merely “faking it”—they go to great lengths to make themselves or others appear ill.

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Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) Fact Sheet

January 1, 2025

Talia Puzantian, PharmD, BCPP and Daniel Carlat, MD

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The efficacy of VNS remains too controversial to recommend its use in all but the most desperate clinical situations.

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Fact Sheet

January 1, 2025

Talia Puzantian, PharmD, BCPP and Daniel Carlat, MD

Dr. Puzantian and Dr. Carlat have no financial relationships with companies related to this material.
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TMS is a reasonable option for patients who have failed several antidepressant trials and who are willing to commit to daily clinic visits for up to six weeks.

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