Carlat Publishing Blog

A new study suggests that lithium might work better in geriatric depression, but prescribing it safely in older patients takes skill. To start with, they require different blood levels. In this episode you'll learn how to manage lithium's risks in the elderly, as...

Here's a recent article from The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report I highly recommend. In the March/April 2019 issue Dr. Suzan Song talked to us about helping refugees and asylum seekers in this Expert Q&A. We hear of many children and...

I was a reader of The Carlat Psychiatry Report before I was an editor, and there were two things that led me to subscribe to it: 1) They cover topics that get missed in the psychiatric press, like practical tips...

In 1985 a Soviet psychiatrist began giving his patients ketamine in hopes to cure their alcoholism. The experiment backfired, but the results tell us something about how ketamine might treat depression. Long buried behind the Iron Curtain, this episode uncovers...

Using Vitamins, specific diets, and herbal remedies, Integrative Medicine (IM) focuses on supporting the innate healing powers of the body. IM is not without its disadvantages. Firstly, and chiefly, the evidence base for efficacy is deficient by the standards of...