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Home » Authors » Daniel Carlat, MD

Articles by Daniel Carlat, MD

TCR’s Top Self-Help Books in Psychiatry

December 1, 2005
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.
A typical psychiatrist spends 20 to 30 minutes with patients during medication visits. Those rare birds who still do therapy can devote 40 to 50 minutes. Either way, that’s not a lot of time in comparison to the rest of our patients’ lives, nor in comparison to the size of their problems.
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More Excellent Books for your Patients

December 1, 2005
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 couldn’t quite fit all of our reviews into this issue. Listed below are some more excellent books, all of which qualified for “honorable mention.”
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P450 Genotyping: Ready for Prime Time?

November 1, 2005
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.
After innumerable articles and books on the importance of genetic variants of P450 enzymes, it appears that the clinical pay-off just might be at hand.
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Genetic Counseling: A Primer for Psychiatrists

November 1, 2005
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.
Genetic counseling in psychiatry is a tricky proposition, because we are just starting to understand the complexity that underlies the genetic basis of psychiatric disease.
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The Scary Side of Genetics

November 1, 2005
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.
As science continues to explore the genetic components of mental illness, concerns about eugenics cannot be far behind. Long before the days of prenatal diagnosis, and difficult decisions about whether or not to terminate a pregnancy, there was a debate in the pages of the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1942 about actually killing so-called “feebleminded” people.
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Antidepressants and Pregnancy: Now What Should We Tell Our Patients?

October 1, 2005
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.
Are antidepressants hazardous to a neonate’s health? The FDA implied as much this past summer, when they issued a new precaution and required all antidepressant makers to include something like this text (for Effexor) in their package inserts …
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Treating Postpartum Depression: A Look at the Evidence

October 1, 2005
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.
What is postpartum depression (PPD), and why does it occur? PPD is generally defined as major depressive symptoms occurring within three months of childbirth. Don’t confuse PPD with the very common postpartum blues, a phenomenon that occurs in over half of women who give birth, peaks about four days after delivery, and fully remits by 10 days postpartum (N Engl J Med 2002; 347:194-199).
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Tom Cruise versus Brooke Shields: A Strange Chapter in Psychiatry

October 1, 2005
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.
“You can use vitamins to help a woman through those things,” said Tom Cruise, denigrating Brooke Shields’s use of an SSRI to treat her postpartum depression, which she detailed in her recent book Down Came The Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression.
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Lunesta, Rozerem, and More: Showtime for the New Hypnotics

September 1, 2005
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, putting patients to sleep is all the rage in psychiatry. Over the last year, two new hypnotics have been approved by the FDA – Lunesta (eszopiclone) in December 2004 and Rozerem (ramelteon) in July 2005. Indiplon (the generic name) is on the launching pad for approval in early 2006.
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Getting Patients off Benzos: Tips from Old Masters

September 1, 2005
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.
Tapering patients off benzos (BZs) is certainly more art than science, but TCR has unearthed a surprising number of studies that help bring more science into the process. These studies are, by modern standards, ancient, because research follows the money, and there’s no longer much money to be made in benzodiazepines. So file these studies under “oldies but goodies”!
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