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How to Diagnose ADHD in Bipolar Disorder

September 28, 2021

Chris Aiken, MD. Editor-in-Chief of TCPR. Practicing psychiatrist, Winston-Salem, NC. Dr. Aiken has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Most patients with bipolar disorder have cognitive complaints, but it’s a mistake to diagnose them all with ADHD, and a mistake to miss the genuine ADHD-bipolar comorbidity as well. Inside, a step-by-step guide to teasing apart the diagnoses.

When Further Medication Trials Seem Futile

June 10, 2020

Joseph Goldberg, MD

Joseph Goldberg, MD

Dr. Goldberg is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and maintains a private practice focused on mood disorders. He has published three psychiatric textbooks and is completing a fourth on psychopharmacology. Dr. Goldberg has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Joe Goldberg believes we do a disservice by shuffling patients through medication trials that have little chance of working. He shares techniques to engage patients, motivate change, combat demoralization, as well as his top pharmacologic strategies for highly resistant depression.

EXPERT Q&A

Telepsychiatry: From Crisis to Opportunity

May 7, 2020

Peter Yellowlees, MD

Peter Yellowlees, M. Professor of psychiatry and Chief Wellness Officer at University of California-Davis Health. Past President of the American Telemedicine Association. Dr. Yellowlees has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

“Don’t think of it as telepsychiatry, think of it as a home visit,” says Peter Yellowlees as he teaches us how to create more meaningful interactions through the digital screen. Dr. Yellowlees covers many of the dicey details of this medium: Involuntary hospitalization, interstate regulations, medical notes, billing, and how to set up the equipment on a budget are all inside.

A New Way to Talk to Patients about Medication

August 30, 2019

Shawn Christopher Shea, MD

Shawn Christopher Shea, MD

Director of the Training Institute for Suicide Assessment and Clinical Interviewing. Internationally recognized innovator in the fields of clinical interviewing and suicide prevention and author of seven books, several of which are included in Doody’s Core List of the most important books in psychiatry and medicine. Dr. Shea has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Shawn Christopher Shea, MD has been fine-tuning the art of doctor-patient communications for over 30 years. He shares his tips on talking about medications.