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The Carlat Psychiatry Report

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (June) | 2007

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Learning Objectives, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, TCPR, June 2007

After reading these articles, you should be able to… Read More

PTSD: Is it Real?

A recent issue of the Journal of Anxiety Disorders (Vol. 21, 2007) focused on the troubling possibility that the PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder) construct is not nearly as valid as has been assumed. The articles are both fascinating and provocative and are well worth reading. Read More

The Latest, Greatest Treatments for PTSD

At least in Britain, it’s official: psychotherapy works better than medication for PTSD. You shouldn’t be too surprised. The last time we covered PTSD (TCPR April 2004) we reviewed the SSRIs and found them to have evidence of only modest efficacy. Read More

Topics in the Diagnosis and Treatment of PTSD

Dr. Osser, as an attending psychiatrist at a VA unit in which you evaluate many patients with PTSD, how do you typically approach establishing a valid and reliable diagnosis of PTSD in your patients? Read More

Adding CBT to meds is effective, but slow

The results of the cognitive therapy component of the NIMH-funded STAR-D trial were finally released. Recall that in STAR-D, about 4,000 depressed patients were initially enrolled and were all given Celexa (citalopram) at an average dose of about 40 mg/day (see TCPR January 2007 for a rundown of STAR-D findings). Read More

Mindfulness meditation helps with depression of fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is usually considered a rheumatologic condition characterized by at least 3 months of widespread pain and the presence of tender points. About two thirds of fibromyalgia patients also suffer from depression, and many such patients eventually find their way to our offices. Read More

Monitoring alcohol use may be enough for some

Project Match was a large, government-funded research project conducted in the 1990s that showed equivalent benefit of AA, cognitive behavioral therapy, and motivational enhancement therapy in alcoholism. Researchers recently reported on an effort to test brief versions of the Project Match therapies for alcohol abusing patients. Read More
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Chris Aiken, MD,
Dr. Aiken is the Editor in Chief of The Carlat Psychiatry Report; director of the Mood Treatment Center in North Carolina, where he maintains a private practice combining medication and therapy along with evidence-based complementary and alternative treatments; and Assistant Professor NYU Langone Department of Psychiatry. He has worked as a research assistant at the NIMH and a sub-investigator on clinical trials, and conducts research on a shoestring budget out of his private practice. Follow him on Twitter and find him on LinkedIn.
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