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Psychopharm Commandment #10: Don’t Fear these Meds

May 29, 2023
Kellie Newsome, PMHNP and Chris Aiken, MD

Surprising health benefits of our riskiest meds: Lithium, quetiapine, and clozapine.


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Psychopharm Commandment 4: Lamotrigine Rash

October 24, 2022
Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

How to assess, treat, and when you can restart after a lamotrigine rash.


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The Schizophrenia-OCD Overlap

September 28, 2021
Michael Poyurovsky, MD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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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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In Brief: Lamotrigine Gets a New Warning

May 4, 2021
Chris Aiken, MD, and Sarah Rivelli, MD.
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Chris Aiken, MD, and Sarah Rivelli, MD. Dr. Aiken and Dr. Rivelli have disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
A new warning now sits beneath the list of life-threatening allergic reactions that can happen with lamotrigine. The anticonvulsant is suspected of causing cardiac arrhythmias in susceptible patients by slowing ventricular conduction and widening the QRS.
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How to Use Lamotrigine

January 1, 2021
Chris Aiken, MD.
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Chris Aiken, MD. Editor-in-Chief of TCPR. 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.
Lamotrigine is approved for the prevention of bipolar episodes, but Dr. Aiken explains why it may also treat active bipolar depression. This mood stabilizer is among the most tolerable in its class, and has additional benefits in OCD, borderline personality disorder, and depersonalization disorder.
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How COVID-19 Affects the Brain

September 3, 2020
Paul Riordan, MD.
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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Paul Riordan, MD. Assistant Consulting Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University. Dr. Riordan has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
Pandemics create a long list of psychosocial stressors, but COVID-19 also has direct effects on the CNS. Neuropsychiatric syndromes can develop after the respiratory illness resolves. Paul Riordan reviews the cardinal symptoms to look for after a COVID infection.
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The Psychopharmacology Algorithm Project

March 30, 2020
David Osser, MD
From The Carlat Psychiatry Report
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David Osser, MDDavid Osser, MD

General Editor of the Psychopharmacology Algorithm Project at the Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Training Program and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University. Dr. Osser has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Dr. Osser set out to develop a psychopharmacology algorithm that actually changes practice. He speaks to us on antidepressants in bipolar, psychoses that don’t need antipsychotics, and his top picks for bipolar mania, bipolar depression, and unipolar depression.
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