Episodios

  • Functional Medicine and Psychiatry - A Constructive and Integrative Blend.

    Functional Medicine and Psychiatry - A Constructive and Integrative Blend.
    Jul 27 2024
    Achina Stein, D.O., explains the many advantages when mixing these two concepts. Functional medicine has an extensive approach exploring for other causes of illness, including valuable searches for what are often not initially obvious infections or inflammatory states, the role of nutrition, toxin exposure, a detailed history of the illness, lifestyles, etc., and then using that data for directed treatment methods, which may also include traditional medicine use and verbal therapies. Intriguing, grounding, worthy of much study, especially with complex and inadequately responding patients. July 2024
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    24 m
  • Genetic Testing To Help With Medication Choices.

    Genetic Testing To Help With Medication Choices.
    Jul 7 2024
    Rachel Earls, Ph.D., outlines the roles, science, and limitations of this powerful clinical tool for the selection of medication. They guide us on how a person metabolizes many medications, and so it helps get proper doses for better efficacy and fewer side effects. It does not predict outcome, but greatly assists with treatment choices. She speaks to the differences between labs that require a medical prescription versus the direct to the consumer labs. This is a fascinating scientific utensil. July 2024
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    18 m
  • Understanding, And The New Tools For, Tardive Dyskinesia (TD)

    Understanding, And The New Tools For, Tardive Dyskinesia (TD)
    May 5 2024
    Stuart Isaacson, M.D., neurologist, explains TD, the role of dopamine in psychiatric and then this treatment induced consequential movement disorder, proper diagnosis, how both psychiatric and neurologic treatments are very helpful, but he also weighs the risk-benefits of now the increasing use of antipsychotics for mood disorders. He further talks of the VMAT2 systems empowering the two new medications. Important material. May 2024.
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    21 m
  • Slavery And Its Ongoing Psychosocial Legacy

    Slavery And Its Ongoing Psychosocial Legacy
    Feb 7 2023
    Benjamin Bowser, Ph.D., sociologist, gives the legacy’s history, that it still remains a very potent contributor to racism, of the cultural based post-traumatic slave syndrome, of what slavery did to the psychology of the slaves and how much of that still lives to this date, and of the origin and legacy of whiteness, Jim Crow, etc. Intriguing, captivating, perhaps painful, but so necessary to study and discuss. February 2023
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    22 m
  • Clinical Issues -- Mixing Buprenorphine And Fentanyl

    Clinical Issues -- Mixing Buprenorphine And Fentanyl
    Feb 26 2023
    Sarah Kawasaki, M.D,, details mixing buprenorphine and fentanyl. The mere number of fentanyl overdoses, be it knowing or not knowing fentanyl was consumed, requires preparing for possible clinical dangers of too rapidly using buprenorphine. Definite protocols are used and are being studied. Important information.
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    22 m
  • LGBTQ+ And The Hospice Experience

    LGBTQ+ And The Hospice Experience
    Feb 25 2023
    Kimberly Aquaviva, Ph.D., M.S.W., begins with her family experiences and why they refused hospice care for her partner. She then gives a overview of current discriminations, inadequate training, and other challenges when hospice and LGBTQ+ patients should function together. She is also pleased some of the problems are slowly resolving.
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    19 m
  • Stigma -- Cause and Effect

    Stigma -- Cause and Effect
    Feb 25 2023
    Heather Howard., PhD, MSW,speaks to her study of how to address stigma, from those who express it to those who receive it. She talks to how this can impede a readiness to ask for help Leaves insights and thoughtful drives to action. Easy to understand yet scholarly.
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    22 m
  • Dextromethorphan - An Old Medication With A New Psychiatric Role

    Dextromethorphan - An Old Medication With A New Psychiatric Role
    Feb 13 2023
    This old medication is finding a place in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. This is an overview of it's history and current use, especially now as an antidepressant.
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    27 m