This Is Your Brain On Drugs Psychiatry Podcast
von Cody Armstrong, MD
- wöchentlichErscheinungsrhythmus
- 54 mintypische Länge
- 28. Okt.letzte Folge
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E51: Procedures: Bright Light Therapy, Vagal Nerve Stimulation, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulators
Today I will finish up on psychiatric procedures for depression. I will discuss bright light therapy, vagal nerve stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and cranial electrotherapy stimulators. Some of these are really cheap, others
E50: Electroconvulsive Therapy: The Most Effective Psychiatric Treatment
Today I talk about Electroconvulsive Therapy or ECT. This is the most effective treatment in psychiatry with effect sizes off the charts and comparable to treatments for other medical disorders. It's used a lot more than you probably think
Quick Take #2: Jul 25 Updates!: FDA Denies New Treatment for PTSD, Alcohol Intake Limit Recommendation Ends?, New BBW on SSRIs?, Clozapine REMS Ends!, New Psychedelic for Depression?, and Many More!
Hey All, I'm starting up a new series that will contain several snippets of updates in the psychopharm world. Every month or two I will plan to release an episode where I don't deep dive like normal, but instead cover several important brea
E49: NAC, Creatine, Aromatherapy, Unfounded Alternative Treatments, and Complementary Medicine Wrap-Up
Today I will be finishing up the complementary treatments for depression. I'll briefly cover three more treatments that have some evidence and no risk for effect: n-acetylcysteine, creatinine, and aromatherapy. Then I'll mention a number of
E48: Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Are They Good For Mental Health, Too?
Continuing with complementary medicine for depression, I'm moving on to omega-3 fatty acids. I'll give you the full run down of fatty acids and where omega-3s fit in, what differentiates all the types of fatty acids, why omega-3s are so goo
E47: Zinc: The Second Most Important Mineral for Mental Health?
On today's show I will continue the discussion on minerals with zinc. Like magnesium, zinc is also critical for cell functioning, and neurons are certainly no exception. I'll talk about what zinc does, how you can be deficient, what foods c
E46: Magnesium: The Most Important Mineral for Mental Health?
On today's show I will be talking about minerals and specifically magnesium. Magnesium is critical for cell functioning and neurons are certainly no exception. I'll talk about what magnesium does, how you can be deficient, how it's very dif
E45: Vitamin D: Does Supplementation Help With Mental Health?
On the show today I will be wrapping up the vitamins with vitamin D. This is a vitamin that I see ordered all the time, and I see it ordered a lot by mental health. Well, I can't say that I've ever seen correcting it to make a difference in
E44: L-Methylfolate (Deplin) and SAMe for the Treatment of Depression
I introduced you to vitamins on the last episode and specifically concentrated on the B vitamins and more specifically, B12 and folate (B9). I touched on L-Methylfolate as the best way to supplement folate and that even if you are not defic
E43: B Vitamins and Why They Are Important for Mental Health
Today we continue our journey through complementary medicine and its impact on depression. Last time I talked about herbal treatments, and today I will start off a short series on vitamins and minerals. On today's episode I'll briefly talk
Quick Take #1: Suzetrigine (Journavx)
Today I'm putting out a special episode that I'm calling a Quick Take where I'm featuring new information that comes out that is not with the topic that I am currently covering. This episode is about a first in class new non-opioid pain med
E42: Herbal Antidepressants: St. John's Wort, Rholiola Rosea, and Kanna
Today I'll be starting off my series on complementary depression treatments with herbal treatments. St. John's Wort and Rhodiola rosea are probably the most well known and most likely to be helpful so I'll be covering the available research
E32: UPDATE! Medication Treatment Course: Discontinuation and Taper of Antidepressants
I touched briefly on discontinuation on this episode, but I found some cool information from RELEASE from the University of Queensland in Australia that have some awesome resources for discontinuing medication. I'll go into more detail on d
E41: Hypogonadism vs Depression
We just had several episodes regarding antidepressant use that are unique to females, so today I will have one that will be unique to males. In this episode I will compare and contrast depression with hypogonadism. You will learn how to dif
E40: UPDATE! Breastfeeding and Antidepressant Safety: L1-L5 Updates
I actually found out a lot of the L1-L5 ratings have changed. Some of the changes are big, most not. Also, there are a lot of meds that have been given a rating that I previously did not know, so I have added a bonus episode on breastfeedin
E40: Breastfeeding and Antdepressant Safety
Today we have the third and final episode on reproductive psychiatry where I will be discussing relative safety of antidepressants as well as some other psychiatric medications with breastfeeding. I will also go over the relatively new L1-L
E39: Peri-partum Depression: Including Antidepressant use, Brexanolone (Zulresso), and Zuranolone (Zurzuvae)
Today we have episode 2 of our reproductive psychiatry series, and I will be talking about peri-partum psychiatric symptoms with a focus on depression. I will discuss all the factors surrounding treating these patients to include the use of
E38: Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) and Peri-menopausal Psychiatric Symptom Treatments: Estrogen, Progestin, Testosterone, Duavee, Veozah, Tamoxifen
Today I'm going to be talking about something that I've wanted to talk about for a while. Even though I'm a male, I am very interested in reproductive psychiatry. I like to learn about new things and new medications. I want to find out-of-t
E37: Pediatric and Geriatric Psychiatric Drug Management
It's time to talk about the differences in using the medications that we have discussed for depression in kids and seniors. I don't have a subspecialty board certification in these fields but I do know a thing or two about how prescribing t
E36: Depression Subtypes: How to Pick the Best Antidepressant for Each
There are many subtypes of depression, and this can be important when selecting the best medication. Today I will be going over these subtypes and will be giving you the algorithm for each as to what I would pick first, second, third, and s
E35: Antidepressant Augmentation
So you've found an antidepressant that seems to be helping the patient, but not quite as much as you'd both like. It's maxed out or we've topped out on adverse effects and can't take it any higher. Should we change it? Maybe not. We can try
E34: Antidepressant Switching
We've learned all about the antidepressants. You know each one of them inside and out. You know how to dose them, how to pick them, and how to follow them throughout the life cycle, but how do you change from one to the other if the patient
E21: NDRI: Bupropion (Wellbutrin) (RePublish)
*This is a republish for spotify because I needed to make some changes. For today's antidepressant category of norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitor, we just have one medication, bupropion, but it is a very special antidepressant b
E20: SARIs: Trazodone and Nefazodone (RePublish)
*This is a republish for spotify because I needed to make some changes. Merry Christmas. I have a special song for you today as we start the atypical antidepressants. We've finished with the typical antidepressants and now it's time to lear
E33: Antidepressant Efficacy Part 3: The Case for Antidepressants
So we had two episodes on the efficacy of antidepressants and I think I may have been a little hard on them, so I decided to make a part 3 where I instill some hope in these medications. They work great for so many people, yet so many peopl
E32: Medication Treatment Course
Apologies! I accidentally uploaded an old episode. This one is correct. We've gone over all the antidepressants. We've talked about how to pick one. But what do you do when you find the right one? How long should the patient take it? Is it
E31: Psychogenomic Testing
I bet a lot of you have heard of psychogenomic testing or at least seen one. Maybe you are a patient and you got one or are thinking about getting one. Are these things worse the time and money? Listen to this episode to learn about them an
E30: Improving Efficacy of Medications
On the last episode on antidepressant efficacy we discussed effect size and placebo. On today's episode I will cover a topic called psychodynamic prescribing. I'll be giving you tips on how to become a prescriber that gets max effect from m
E29: Efficacy of Antidepressants
OK, so we've learned about the antidepressants, how to pick one, and how to dose. Well, how well do they work? I'll be discussing the efficacy of antidepressants on this episode, and I will be exploring the idea of placebo as it relates to
E28: Selecting an Antidepressant
So we've talked about all the FDA approved medications for depression. How to you choose which one to use? Have no fear, I have my break down where I go over all the factors that I take into consideration. Let's not be lazy and pick 5 SSRIs
