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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

andrey_orlov/AdobeStock CLINICAL REFLECTIONS Medical education has traversed an evolving path over the past few decades. 2 Realizing that, modern medical educators often morph traditional Socratic questioning into the embedding of “audience response questions” (ARS) within formal presentations.

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The 2025 Summer Heatwave: Implications for Patients With Psychiatric Disorders

Psychiatric Times

The hypothalamus is our body's thermostat, and a lot of the neurotransmitters that we are touching on and working on in psychiatry affect the hypothalamus.” Although prevention is key, Barbee said patient education should also include the signs and symptoms of heat intolerance.

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Depression: Biological or Psychological?

Mad in America

These beliefs have been shaped by NIHs National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) and by psychiatrists, whose opinions regarding mental health care are trusted by the public. Put to the test, they were unable to demonstrate that the mental disorders are biological illnesses. A psychiatric textbook (Silverman, C.,

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Nonstimulant Therapies for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

Atomoxetine and viloxazine function as norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, targeting neurotransmitter systems involved in attention, distractibility, and response inhibition. These medications offer particular benefits for patients with comorbid conditions or those who cannot tolerate stimulant side effects.

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Systemic Insanity

Mad in America

To understand mental illness, we first need to understand what a person really is. Psychologists help people who feel bad and doctors prescribe medicine for broken brains with a lack of one or another neurotransmitter. Mental illness is usually caused by something happening. W hat is a human being?

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Ten Years Later: Still Shooting the Odds

Mad in America

Dr. Read recognizes the need for greater education of mental health professionals to assist with deprescribing. BDNF is involved in the integrity of the nervous system, including neuronal maintenance, neuronal survival, plasticity and neurotransmitter regulation.

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Recovery of Soul After 22 Years on Antipsychotics

Mad in America

We humans need our dopamine and also the other brain neurotransmitters that are affected by psychiatric drugs, and even us, the “neurodiverse,” cannot really feel fully alive otherwise. I do believe that many of these “mental illness” schism conditions are for the most part acute rather than chronic as one develops out of them.