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Assessing and Treating Catatonia

March 23, 2022

Stephan Heckers, MD William P. and Henry B. Test Professor Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital. Nashville, TN. Dr. Heckers has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Patients experiencing catatonia often improve quickly with benzodiazepines, but how can we help patients who fail to respond? Dr. Heckers summarizes the management of catatonia, including refractory cases, and tells us of other illnesses to consider in our differential diagnoses.

Assessing and Treating Traumatic Brain Injury

July 30, 2020

Jonathan Silver, MD

Jonathan Silver, MD

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. Co-editor of the Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury 3e (APA, 2019). Dr. Silver has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity

Not all head injuries are traumatic brain injuries. Learn how to tell the difference, and which medications to use and which to avoid in this interview with Jonathan Silver.

How to Treat Tardive Dyskinesia

January 13, 2020

Chris Aiken, MD.

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

The VMAT2 inhibitors are FDA approved for tardive dyskinesia (TD), but there are 8 off-label options to consider as well. See how they stack up here, and learn why the atypical antipsychotics ─ with one exception ─ have not put an end to this insidious side effect.

How to Use Amantadine

June 24, 2019

Rarely used but often studied, amantadine is a medicine that doesn't fit neatly into any boxes. It's thought to work in OCD, autism, depression, cognition, ADHD, weight loss, sexual dysfunction, and traumatic brain injury. But how good is that research, and when should you use it? Chris Aiken and Kellie...