ARIPIPRAZOLE in DEPRESSION and ANXIETY: BUYER BEWARE!
ALAN EPPEL MB, FRCPC Attached to the cover of a recent issue of the ..
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ANTIDEPRESSANTS ARE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE IN BIPOLAR DISORDER
ALAN EPPEL For decades, one of the most controversial issues within psychiatry has being whether or not antidepressants have any role to play in the treatment of bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder consists of periods of depression and periods ..
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PSYCHOTHERAPY: TOO EXPENSIVE NOT TO PROVIDE
SUSAN MCNAIR MD, FRCPC I have a patient in my practice that I have being seeing weekly for several months. Together we work through problems he has had in the past week, with coworkers or family members or with his mood. He is incr..
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The Intersection of Bullying and Mental Illness
Sarah Payne MD Bullying is a pervasive problem that affects many children and youth, especially with its extension into the cyberworld in recent years. Increasing numbers of studies have been published documenting the impact of bullying..
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Dynamic Psychotherapy Meta-analyses
This month we include two recent meta-analyses of short-term dynamic psychotherapies. The first comes from a group based in Stockholm Sweden reporting on the efficacy of Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapies- EDT. EDTs operate within the..
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BENZODIAZEPINES: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
Volume 2 Number 1 Alan Eppel & Farid Ahmad THE GOOD Benzodiazepines and “Z-drugs” are GABA-receptor modulators and are among the most frequently prescribed drugs in psychiatry and primary care despite c..
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Prazosin First Line for PTSD
Vol 2 # 5 Traitement des etats de stress post-traumatique par un antagoniste alpha-1-adrenergique, la prazosine: une revue des etudes d’evaluation. Simon P, Rousseau P. Can J Psychiatry, 62 issue: 3, 186-198 March 2017 Abstract This review..
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The 2016 CANMAT Depression Guidelines: Redefining Levels of Evidence and Levels of Funding
VOL 2 #7 Natasha Snelgrove MD, FRCPC To much fanfare, and with an entire volume of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry dedicated to these guidelines, the fourth iteration of the Canadian Network of Mood and Anxiety Treatment (CANMAT) Guideli..
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1. Bipolar Connectivity 2. Predicting Antidepressant Response
VOL 2 #7 Resting state functional connectivity in women with bipolar disorder during clinical remission. Syan SK(1,)(2), Minuzzi L(1,)(2,)(3,)(4), Smith M(4), Allega OR(1,)(2), Hall GB(1,)(5), Frey BN(1,)(2,)(3,)(4). &nb..
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Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Clinical Practice Guidelines for Mood disorders: A Review.
Vol 2 #9 Alan Eppel MB, FRCPC The strength of these guidelines released in 2015, is their easy readability and fluent written style coupled with numerous helpful tables and diagrams illustrating key processes. The guidelines were develo..
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