Can you trust what you see here? My name is Jim Phelps. I’m a psychiatrist. I specialize in complex […]
Category Archive: Professional Resources
As you’ve probably experienced, interviewing patients is fun and also anxiety producing. If all you had to do […]
You’ll see in this rotation that psychotherapy is an extremely important treatment option for nearly everything we handle. […]
How lithium improves outcomes in primary care For treatment of depression, primary care providers using the Texas Medical […]
There’s a better screening test than than MDQ that avoids the mess below. But if you’re using the […]
First, before treatment actually starts, you and your doctor must be sure that you don’t have thyroid changes […]
(updated 2014) Medication information:Amazingly detailed information on any medication, by any name you know, or you can search. […]
There is a fantastic web resource for this at Boston University’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation : Their overview of the ADA […]
(August 2005) This project (here is their website) has been underway for more than 5 years. There are […]
(updated 2/2006) Here’s the approach I’ve evolved, after watching people get substantial side effects, yet not showing those […]
So-and-so suggests Treatment A. But you’ve heard about Treatment B. Or maybe you are just not so sure […]
Two weeks before the DSM- 5 came out, the head of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) […]
(1/11/13) Summary: Here is the DSM-5 planning committee‘s discussion of whether to incorporate, somehow, a “spectrum” way of […]
A 2005 Interview about Bipolarity This interview effectively introduces Harvard’s “Bipolarity Index“. Three excerpts below illustrate Sachs’ style, and his […]
This is an important interview with Dr. Gary Sachs, head of the Harvard-associated Mood Disorders Clinic. A short […]
The Bipolarity Index was first described in an article by Harvard’s Director of the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program […]
Scoring the Mood Disorders Questionnaire The following scores are the most indicative of having bipolar disorder, though be […]
(Updated 12/2014) [mwm-aal-display] Introduction This is a technical discussion of how a test interacts with the prevalence of […]