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What is Telemedicine?

My Psychiatry

You can now chat with one of our providers online for a variety of different conditions, including: Depression Anxiety disorders ADHD & Substance abuse Addiction Alcohol abuse Insomnia Dementia or memory loss Bipolar disorder Our providers serve patients from teenage years to geriatric and older adults.

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Walking the Line: Navigating Student Mistreatment by Patients

Psychiatric Times

You have been seeing Max for a few months for medication management of his generalized anxiety disorder, and he is nearly in remission. Social Anxiety Disorder: An Underappreciated Entity EP: 21. After a few days of working together, you ask her to lead the interview with your next patient, “Max.”

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt

Mad in America

He went to his GP, who diagnosed him with “anxiety disorder” on top of his bipolar diagnosis and prescribed Xanax. The psychiatrist called me the next day and announced that Matt had “bipolar disorder” as if this were a “new” diagnosis — and had clearly not seen Matt’s medical records. It was just so sad.

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Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think

Mad in America

Number of genes Explained variance (%) Anxiety disorders 200,000 6 0.5 Bipolar disorder 413,000 64 4.6 Depressive disorder 1,154,000 178 1.5-3.2 My point of view is that the disorders are only biological in a weak sense. Malfunction Number of persons (approx.) ADHD 55,000 12 5.5 Autism Spectrum 53,000 5 1.4

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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

Mad in America

This turn to ketamine is occurring despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned that the FDA has not approved ketamine for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder (though controversially approving esketamine nasal spray).