Drug-Induced Hyperthermic Syndromes in Psychiatry
When a patient presents with markedly elevated temperature and altered mental status, is it neuroleptic malignant syndrome or serotonin syndrome? If y...
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Practical psychopharmacology updates for mental health clinicians. Useful for psychiatry / mental health professionals. Expert interviews and soundbites from CME presentations. Practical and free of commercial bias. Not sponsored by any pharmaceutical company.
How to Improve Adherence: Targeting Reasons for Nonadherence
This episode discusses how to improve psychotropic drug adherence by targeting the reasons for nonadherence. It also discusses a 3-tiered approach to ...
Esketamine: Postmarketing Safety Concerns
How risky is esketamine? In this episode, we examine the safety of esketamine using postmarketing data that have been reported since the drug was appr...
Nonadherence: Adverse Drug Reactions and Measuring Perceived Side Effects With FIBSER
This episode discusses an algorithm for assessing adherence; the reasons for suboptimal adherence, including adverse drug reactions; measuring perceiv...
Neurocovid: Pharmacologic Recommendations for Delirium Associated With COVID-19
Delirium has been frequently found in patients who test positive for COVID-19. It has additional features that we do not typically see in ordinary del...
How to Assess Psychotropic Drug Adherence
This episode discusses the assessment of adherence: Self-report, electronic medication monitoring systems, rating scales, medication possession ratio,...
Citalopram for Acute and Preventive Efficacy in Bipolar Depression (CAPE-BD)
A new randomized trial suggests that the efficacy of antidepressants for the treatment of bipolar depression is no greater than placebo. This tips the...
Delirium, Catatonia, and COVID-19
This podcast offers a discussion on catatonia and delirium as well as treatments for their co-occurrence. Treatments discussed include benzodiazepines...
Effects of Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy on Major Depressive Disorder
Is psilocybin a potential treatment for major depression? There's certainly been a lot of press coverage, but to date, the reports are largely open tr...
Dopamine and Depression: Clinical Considerations
This podcast features a discussion on the need to highlight anhedonia and anergia as core symptoms of depression. We also cover the clinical utility o...