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Raising the Bar in Schizophrenia Treatment

January 31, 2022
Brian Miller, MD, PhD, MPH
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Brian Miller, MD, PhD, MPHBrian Miller, MD, PhD, MPH Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, and President of the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association. Dr. Miller receives research support from Augusta University, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and the Stanley Medical Research Institute.
Dr. Miller discusses new options for negative symptoms, how to improve the therapeutic alliance, and what to do when clozapine doesn’t work in schizophrenia.
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Assessing Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents

October 18, 2021
Anna Van Meter, MD
From The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report
Issue Links: Learning Objectives | Editorial Information | PDF of Issue
Anna Van Meter, MDAnna Van Meter, MD

Assistant professor, Institute of Behavioral Science at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY. Assistant professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.

Dr. Van Meter has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Most of us need more clarity to better differentiate bipolar disorder from other problems such as ADHD with irritability or other mood problems. In this interview, Dr Ann Van Meter offers a simple methodology for making better predictions about the risk of bipolar illness in children and adolescents based on risk factors and symptomatology.
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The Schizophrenia-OCD Overlap

September 28, 2021
Michael Poyurovsky, MD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
Issue Links: Learning Objectives | Editorial Information | PDF of Issue
Michael Poyurovsky, MDMichael Poyurovsky, MD

Ma’ale HaCarmel Mental Health Center, Tirat Carmel, Israel; Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Dr. Poyurovsky has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

OCD and schizophrenia often overlap, but treatment of this comorbidity is risky terrain. Dr. Poyurovsky explains when antidepressants should be avoided and details which antipsychotics are more likely to exacerbate OCD and which ones are more likely to help it.
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How to Come Off a Psych Med Part 1: Antipsychotics

February 3, 2021
Swapnil Gupta, MD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
Issue Links: Learning Objectives | Editorial Information | PDF of Issue

Swapnil Gupta, MD
Associate professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Co-author of Deprescribing in Psychiatry (Oxford, 2019). Dr. Gupta has disclosed that she has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

How do you taper off an antipsychotic? Swapnil Gupta gives a practical approach, and discusses dopamine hypersensitivity, a controversial theory that suggests antipsychotic withdrawal can cause dyskinesias, prolactinemia, and rebound psychosis.
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Probiotics in Psychiatry

December 31, 2020
Ted Dinan, MD, PhD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
Issue Links: Learning Objectives | Editorial Information | PDF of Issue

Ted Dinan, MD, PhD
Professor of psychiatry at University College Cork, Ireland. Dr. Dinan’s research focuses on depression, irritable bowel syndrome, and the influence of the gut microbiota on brain function. He has published over 500 scientific papers and numerous books, including 2019’s The Psychobiotic Revolution. Dr. Dinan has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

The gut microbiome is one of the newest entries in the list of causes of depression. Ted Dinan explains how the bacteria in the GI tract influence the brain, and whether a probiotic or a lifestyle change is the best way to address it.
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Alternative Therapies for SUDs

December 10, 2020
Steven Novella, MD
From The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report
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Steven Novella, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Novella has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Not all alternative therapies are created equal. In this interview with Dr. Steven Novella, we discuss the prevalence of alternative therapies among patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) as well as the state of evidence for (or against) commonly utilized forms of complementary and alternative treatments for SUDs.
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Opioid Use Disorders and Serious Mental Illness

December 10, 2020
Sandra Gomez-Luna, MD
From The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report
Issue Links: Learning Objectives | Editorial Information | PDF of Issue

Sandra Gomez-Luna, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor at Yale University. Adult, adolescent, and child psychiatrist in Darien, CT. Dr. Gomez-Luna has disclosed that she has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Those with serious mental illness and unhealthy opioid use have special treatment considerations due to polypharmacy and overlapping stigma. Dr. Gomez-Luna walks us through these nuances and explains microdosing of buprenorphine—a helpful technique for starting treatment in patients who may have other opioids on board.
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Side Effects of Psychotherapy

November 12, 2020
Michael Linden, MD, PhD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
Issue Links: Learning Objectives | Editorial Information | PDF of Issue

Michael Linden, MD, PhD
Professor of psychiatry and director of psychosomatic research at the Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany. Dr. Linden has dual training as a psychologist and psychiatrist and is licensed as a cognitive behavior therapist. He has helped develop new branches of CBT, and his research has brought recognition to the potential side effects of psychotherapy. Dr. Linden has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Psychotherapy can work as well as medication, but can it also have side effects? Michael Linden believes it can. He launched some of the key studies that brought light to this under-appreciated phenomenon, and in this interview he shows us how to recognize and avoid them.
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Duty to Warn? Debating Antidepressant Suicidality

October 30, 2020
Martha J. Ignaszewski, MD and Glen Spielmans, PhD
From The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report
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Martha J. Ignaszewski, MD
Fellow, University of California, San Francisco      





Glen Spielmans, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN


Dr. Ignaszewski and Dr. Spielmans have disclosed that they have no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

For 16 years, since the FDA black box warning about suicidality with antidepressants, our community has been quoting data that downplays this concern. We were wrong. We were deceived. Antidepressants can be lifesaving, but there really is a duty to warn. Drs. Martha Ignazewski and Glen Speilmans talk with us about what went on and how to talk about it with our families.
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Managing Video Gaming in Children and Teens

October 30, 2020
Joseph B. Dilley, PhD
From The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report
Issue Links: Learning Objectives | Editorial Information | PDF of Issue

Joseph B. Dilley, PhD
Psychologist in Pasadena, CA; author of The Game Is Playing Your Kid: How to Unplug and Reconnect in the Digital Age (Minneapolis: Bascom Hill; 2015). Dr. Dilley has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

So many families struggle with videogaming addiction and other overuse of electronics, maybe more so in the current pandemic. Joe Dilley teaches us how to address this perennial problem, offering a simple way to remember how families can set up their limits in a way that pitches the child toward better self-control.
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