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A Reflection on “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance”

Mad in America

Laura was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. While previously bipolar disorder, formerly called manic-depressive illness, was applied to a narrow group of people who experience dramatic extremes of mood and energy level interspersed with periods of fairly normal function, it was now applied to a much broader range of people.

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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

Mad in America

Eli Lilly, the company behind Prozac, funded studies and published journal articles relentlessly reinforcing the message that depression was caused by 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), the chemical name for serotonin. Instead, most of the research supporting it came from the labs of corporations.

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Case Discussion: Management of Severe Nausea and Vomiting in a Pregnant Woman with Bipolar Disorder

MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

This article explores the case of a woman with bipolar disorder who develops HG associated with severe anxiety and sleep disruption, and discusses various treatment options.

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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

She has been on an antipsychotic medication to treat her bipolar disorder for 10 years, resulting in stability of mood symptoms that were previously poorly controlled. How can this be? Let’s review a few case examples. Case 1 “Ms Robbins” is 49 years old and works as a bank teller. Jackson R, Brams MN, Carlozzi NE, et al.

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Redemption in Psychiatry

Psychiatric Times

There is an article about redeeming diagnosis, 1 but not much more that I know of. Steven Moffic, MD Series | Psychiatric Views on the Daily News Key Takeaways Redemption in psychiatry is often overlooked due to doubts about psychiatry's ability to redeem itself or society. So that begs the question: What is redemption?

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Beyond Pharmacare

Mad in America

Following doctor’s orders, I had obediently swallowed Seroquel (quetiapine) that night, a so-called ‘antipsychotic’ medication used to treat mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and, off-label, dementia, autism, eating disorders, insomnia, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

Author(s): Joseph F. Goldberg, MD , Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD, DSc (Hon) Now more than ever, capturing and scaling the ingredients that make for compelling and impactful teaching for trainees is vital to our future. andrey_orlov/AdobeStock CLINICAL REFLECTIONS Medical education has traversed an evolving path over the past few decades.