JAMA Psychiatry : Adolescent Psychedelic Use and Psychotic or Manic Symptoms
Interview with Otto Simonsson, PhD, author of Adolescent Psychedelic Use and Psychotic or Manic Symptoms. Hosted by John Torous, MD, MBI. Related Content: Adolescent Psychedelic Use and Psychotic or Manic Symptoms (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - March 13, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

ICU Decolonization Strategies, Follow Up of Abnormal Cancer Screening Test Results, Bipolar Disorder Review, and more
Editor’s Summary by Anne Rentoumis Cappola, MD, ScM, Associate Editor of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the October 10, 2023, issue. Related Content: Audio Highlights (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - October 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

JAMA Psychiatry : Cannabis Use Disorder and Subsequent Risk of Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Disorder
Interview with Carsten Hjorthøj, PhD, author of Cannabis Use Disorder and Subsequent Risk of Psychotic and Nonpsychotic Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Disorder. Hosted by John Torous, MD, MBI. Related Content: Cannabis Use Disorder and Subsequent Risk of Psychotic and Nonpsychotic Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Disorder (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - May 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Sublingual Dexmedetomidine for Agitation in Bipolar Disorder, SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Neurological Outcome in Refractory Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, and more
Editor's Summary by Kristin Walter, MD, Associate Editor of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the February 22, 2022 issue. (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - February 22, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

JAMA Psychiatry : Lithium for Suicide-Related Outcome Prevention in Veterans With Major Depression or Bipolar Disorder
Interview with Matthew H. Liang, MD, MPH, author of Lithium Treatment in the Prevention of Repeat Suicide-Related Outcomes in Veterans With Major Depression or Bipolar Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial Hosted by John B. Torous, MD, MBI. (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - November 17, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Lithium for bipolar disorder: the John Cade story
Prior to the Second World War mental illness was largely untreatable, but all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently returned prisoner of war, John Cade, made the monumental discovery that lithium could serve as an effective treatment for manic depression, now bipolar disorder. In this podcast, Dr Raj Persaud interviews Professor Greg de Moore about the life and work of John Cade, discussing his remarkable – but often overlooked – contribution to the history of mental health treatment. (Source: Raj Persaud talks to...)
Source: Raj Persaud talks to... - July 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Royal College of Psychiatrists Tags: Science & Medicine Source Type: podcasts

An acutely disturbed person in the community
It can be difficult to know what to do when a person in severe psychological distress presents to a general practice or community clinic, particularly if they are behaving aggressively, or if they are refusing help. Most patients who are acutely disturbed present no danger to others, however situations can evolve rapidly. Frontline staff need to know how to call for help, how to assess and manage physical risk, and how to de-escalate such situations. In this podcast Aileen O’Brien, reader in psychiatry and education at St George’s University of London joins us to give some advice on what to do in that situation - wh...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 21, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

An acutely disturbed person in the community
It can be difficult to know what to do when a person in severe psychological distress presents to a general practice or community clinic, particularly if they are behaving aggressively, or if they are refusing help. Most patients who are acutely disturbed present no danger to others, however situations can evolve rapidly. Frontline staff need to know how to call for help, how to assess and manage physical risk, and how to de-escalate such situations. In this podcast Aileen O’Brien, reader in psychiatry and education at St George’s University of London joins us to give some advice on what to do in that situation - why...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 21, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

JAMA Psychiatry : Real-time Monitoring of Motor Activity, Energy, Mood, and Sleep Associations in Bipolar Disorder
Interview with Kathleen Merikangas, PhD, author of Real-time Mobile Monitoring of the Dynamic Associations Among Motor Activity, Energy, Mood, and Sleep in Adults With Bipolar Disorder (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - December 12, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: podcasts

What Good (and Bad) are Positive Emotions?
There is a seminal article by Barbara Fredrickson titled ‘What good are positive emotions?’ which introduces the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. As per this theory, while negative emotions are associated with specific action tendencies, positive emotions broaden the thought-action repertoire available at that moment and help build physical, social and intellectual resources over the long run. To take an example, joy is associated with creativity, and more loose associations, etc, all involving a move away from rigidity and fixedness to flexibility and fluency in thinking ;  joy is also associate...
Source: The Mouse Trap - June 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: emotion adaptations emotions evolution play Source Type: podcasts

FDA Drug Safety Podcast: FDA warns of serious immune system reaction with seizure and mental health medicine lamotrigine (Lamictal)
On April 25, 2018, FDA warned that the medicine lamotrigine (brand name Lamictal) for seizures and bipolar disorder can cause a rare but very serious reaction that excessively activates the body ’s infection-fighting immune system. (Source: FDA Drug Safety Podcasts)
Source: FDA Drug Safety Podcasts - April 30, 2018 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Source Type: podcasts

Anxiety, Depression and the Internalizing Spectrum
Pathological mental health problems in children and young adults have been classified into externalizing (substance abuse, conduct disorder etc) and internalizing disorders (depression , anxiety etc). Today’s post will try to  work out the structure of this internalizing spectrum. English: An anxious person (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The first major difference, that is made in say DSM, is between Mood disorders (disturbance in mood) and Anxiety disorders (characterized by anxiety and avoidance behaviors) . However, Watson in this article (pdf) emphasizes that this classification is not proper and in many cases these ...
Source: The Mouse Trap - February 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: depression mental illness anxiety Mental disorder Mood disorder Source Type: podcasts

J. Sloan Manning, MD - Recognition and Treatment of Bipolar Depression: Exploring a Patient ’s Journey From Diagnosis to Treatment
Recognition and Treatment of Bipolar Depression: Exploring a Patient’s Journey From Diagnosis to Treatment (Source: Peerview CME/CE Audio Podcast - Neurology International)
Source: Peerview CME/CE Audio Podcast - Neurology International - August 18, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education Tags: Science, Medicine Source Type: podcasts