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Category Archive: Professional Resources

FDA bipolar screening requirement

In case you needed to see it and can’t find it in your own Prescribing Information (it’s a […]

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Trust

Can you trust what you see here? My name is Jim Phelps. I’m a psychiatrist.  I specialize in complex […]

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Interview Templates

As you’ve probably experienced, interviewing patients is fun and also anxiety producing. If all you had to do […]

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Learning About Psychotherapies

You’ll see in this rotation that psychotherapy is an extremely important treatment option for nearly everything we handle. […]

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Lithium in Primary Care

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How lithium improves outcomes in primary care For treatment of depression, primary care providers using the Texas Medical […]

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Using the MDQ in Primary Care

There’s a better screening test than than MDQ that avoids the mess below. But if you’re using the […]

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The Basics of Bipolar Treatment

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First, before treatment actually starts, you and your doctor must be sure that you don’t have thyroid changes […]

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Select Sites for Other Specific Information

(updated 2014) Medication information:Amazingly detailed information on any medication, by any name you know, or you can search. […]

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The Americans With Disabilities Act

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There is a fantastic web resource for this at Boston University’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation : Their overview of the ADA […]

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Texas Medical Algorithms Project (TMAP)

(August 2005) This project (here is their website) has been underway for more than 5 years. There are […]

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Topiramate dosing

(updated 2/2006) Here’s the approach I’ve evolved, after watching people get substantial side effects, yet not showing those […]

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Expert Guidelines for Bipolar Treatment

So-and-so suggests Treatment A.  But you’ve heard about Treatment B.  Or maybe you are just not so sure […]

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The NIMH’s RDoC and the DSM-5

Two weeks before the DSM- 5 came out, the head of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) […]

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DSM-5 and the Mood Spectrum

(1/11/13) Summary: Here is the DSM-5 planning committee‘s discussion of whether to incorporate, somehow, a “spectrum” way of […]

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The Harvard Bipolar Clinic’s Dr. Gary Sachs

A 2005 Interview about Bipolarity This interview effectively introduces Harvard’s “Bipolarity Index“.  Three excerpts below illustrate Sachs’ style, and his […]

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The Bipolarity Index Interview

This is an important interview with Dr. Gary Sachs, head of the Harvard-associated Mood Disorders Clinic.  A short […]

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The Bipolarity Index

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The Bipolarity Index was first described in an article by Harvard’s Director of the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program […]

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Scoring the MDQ

Scoring the Mood Disorders Questionnaire The following scores are the most indicative of having bipolar disorder, though be […]

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