UBC Psychiatry Resident PGY-5, Research Track. UofT MD. McGill BSc Hon Psychology, Minor Philosophy. Interested in Mental Health, Philosophy, Art.
Joined March 2013
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Our commentary on the emergent concering practice of "Prescribing psychostimulants for persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: practice with little guidance"
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Insight has different meanings across psychiatric disorders. This article describes the nuances in depression.
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Honigfeld said that there is an effective but underutilized treatment for aggression and violence in individuals with SMI: the antipsychotic clozapine. 🔗👇
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𝗡𝗲𝘄: 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗿𝘆 — 𝗔 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸
Patients ask about vitamins, herbs, and supplements every day. Most of us were never taught how to answer.
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#Psychiatry #CME
ALT Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Psychiatry: A Fact Book, shown in three formats — spiral-bound, print, and as a PDF/eBook on a tablet and phone.
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1. The self-medication hypothesis comes up short:
psych-partners.com/self-medi…
2. Hitting rock bottom is not a reliable route to recovery:
psych-partners.com/dont-wait…
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Which antipsychotic is most effective for aggression in schizophrenia?
Clozapine, concludes new network meta-analysis, followed by paliperidone and olanzapine. See full ranking:
psych-partners.com/antipsych…
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Check out our resource center for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), featuring highlighted articles with commentary from the editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D. psychiatryonline.org/mdd
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37 million Adderall pills traced back to one telehealth company. The founder is going to prison.
Done, from startup to conviction. 0.25 CME.
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The lack of any vision of a better life, a better world, in most of the liberal opposition to the right-wing has helped bring about a rennaissance of Catholic political thought. commonwealmagazine.org/stein…
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When psychiatric illness becomes conflated with emotional well-being, conceptual clarity is lost and the distinction between disease and distress becomes blurred. Most importantly, patients with severe psychiatric illnesses risk becoming obscured within an ever-broadening category that lacks clear boundaries. 🔗👇
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Employers must stop their dangerous substitution of doctors by advanced practitioners.
Read our letter to the Government and @NHSEngland
ALT A letter to Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, and Sir Jim Mackey, on the unsafe substitution of doctors by employers, from BMA chair of council Dr Tom Dolphin.
