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Articles by Dr. Mago (Published Elsewhere)
Help your patients keep appointments
12 best Web sites for clinical needs
Tips for telling your patients good-bye
7 steps to a successful antipsychotic switch
Ending a physician/patient relationship: 8 tips for writing a termination letter
Suicide risk assessment
Using a ‘MAP’ to navigate follow-up visits
Reducing CYP450 drug interactions caused by antidepressants
Lamotrigine for Major Depressive Disorder Is Inappropriate
Antidepressants and Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn
Bupropion After Nonresponse or Partial Response to an SSRI or SNRI?
Efficacy of Drugs in Bipolar Depression: What the Data Show
Practical Implications of a Study on Treating Chronic Insomnia
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)
Practice Guidelines
Available Practice Guidelines for Mental Disorders
Tips on using practice guidelines: When to use them. Where to find them. How to use them efficiently
Biostatistics
What is a p value? (video)
“No significant difference”: Not different, but not the same
Non-inferiority comparisons
What is Effect Size and how should it be interpreted?
Recommended books about EBM
Rating Scales
Expert Interviews
Audio
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Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 1-Shawn Shea, MD
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Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 2-Suicide Assessment-Shawn Shea, MD
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Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 3-Validity Techniques-Shawn Shea, MD
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Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 4-Interviewing paranaoid patients-Shawn Shea, MD
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Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 5-Medication Interest Model-Shawn Shea, MD
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Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 6-About the book-Shawn Shea, MD
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Tips on writing a letter at termination of treatment
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Tips on assessing and managing suicidality: Interview with Jack Krasuski, MD on November 4, 2016
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Tips on using lamotrigine for bipolar disorder: Interview with S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD on November 5, 2016
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Bipolar disorder: Interview with Gary Sachs, MD on September 29, 2016
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): Interview with John O’Reardon, MD on September 10, 2016
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Part 1 of Psychodynamic psychopharmacology: Interview with David Mintz, MD on August 4, 2016
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Part 2 of Psychodynamic psychopharmacology: Interview with David Mintz, MD on August 4, 2016
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Part 3 of psychodynamic psychopharmacology: Interview with David Mintz, MD on August 4, 2016
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Tips on neuroimaging to evaluate persons with dementia-Interview with Vimal Aga, MD on May 16, 2016
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How to teach a powerful Relaxation Practice
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14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 1
14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 2
14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 3
14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 4
14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 5
14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 6
Video
Donna Sudak, MD
CBT for brief sessions
Shawn Christopher Shea, MD
Psychiatric Interviewing
Joseph Goldberg, MD
Management of bipolar depression
Gary Sachs, MD
How to get better outcomes in bipolar disorder?
David Sheehan, MD
Suicide: A New Conceptualization, A Neglected Question, and Specific Medications
Jack Krasuski, MD
Quick tips in suicide assessment
John O’Reardon, MD
Tips on referring patients for TMS
David Mintz, MD
Dealing with treatment-resistance
Vimal Aga, MD
When and how to order neuroimaging in dementia?
General Topics
BEST books about doing presentations
Recommended plays for patients, their families, clinicians, or trainees
How to lose weight
YouTube and psychiatry
Tips for foreign medical graduates (FMGs)
Tips for residents and medical students on call for psychiatry
Some mnemonics for mental health clinicians
Famous people who had a mental disorder
Psychopharmacology Quizzes
Interviewing
A simple but powerful technique to improve rapport with your patients
Psychiatric Interviewing: Interview with Shawn Christopher Shea, MD
The Three Step Ladder: A better, easier way to start to ask about suicidal ideation
Quick tips in suicide assessment: Interview with Jack Krasuski, MD
How NOT to talk about suicide
What’s in a name? Unconventional suggestions for what to call the persons we are helping
You May be Using the Box of Tissues All Wrong!
Three no-no’s in the waiting room
How to EFFECTIVELY screen patients for possible bipolar disorder
Tips for interviewing: Patients with dementia
BEST books on psychiatric interviewing (Free)
Laboratory testing
False positive elevation of plasma ammonia
Hepatic Function Tests
When to do an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG)?
When to measure serum levels of mood stabilizers
Serum folate is not the right test to order
Opioids in the urine drug screen
Iron deficiency in mental health
Pharmacogenomics and psychotropic medications (Link to all pages on this topic)
The 12 Sins in Laboratory Testing in Mental Health
What laboratory tests should a mental health clinician order and when?
HLA antigens and psychotropic drugs
When and how to order neuroimaging in dementia: Interview with Vimal Aga, MD?
False positive urine drug screen: Principles and a table for reference
Will zolpidem be detected on a standard urine drug screen?
How to interpret the BUN/Creatinine ratio when you get labs back
What lab tests should we do in patients on divalproex (Depakote)?
24-hour urine for creatinine clearance
How to collect a 24-hour urine sample
How to measure and interpret serum prolactin
Tips on thyroid function testing
Should you order genetic tests before prescribing psychotropics? (External Link)
Patient education
FDA medication guides
Patient handouts
What is the ONE website that is BEST for all your patient education needs?
Practice management
CPT billing code for administration of injections
E-fax services
Golden Rules for Difficult-to-Treat-Patients
ICD-10-CM codes for DSM-5 disorders? Easy!
Letter at the termination of treatment
Reduce inappropriate phone calls
Risk management in mental health practice
Quotes
Quotes
Quotes – psychiatry, psychiatrists, mental health
Quotes about anxiety
Quotes about failure
Quotes about habits
Quotes about practicality
Quotes about simplicity
Recommended Books
For clinicians
“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Below are links to the BEST books on different topics–for mental health clinicians.
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For patients and their families
We should *routinely* recommend to patients (and their loved ones) very *specific* book(s) about their illness because this allows patients to educate themselves. Two rules about this that I follow are:
1) Only one or two of the best books for that purpose, NOT a list of twenty. Listing twenty usually guarantees that the person will read none.
2) Only books that will be USEFUL, not those that are just “interesting.” Some of the best ones are listed on this website under the different conditions — depressive disorders, bipolar disorder, ADHD.
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What do you recommend to patients with occasional migraines (head or gut) that are prescribed sumatriptan for intermittent use, while on an SSRI or SNRI? I have a patient prescribed an injectable 0.5 mg subcutaneous for cyclic vomiting syndrome, while on 75 mg BID of Effexor ER.She has been told Risks/Benefits and Alternatives and has been told about the signs and symptoms of serotonin syndrome. The question is, how do you know how much serotonin is too much serotonin before your patient is in trouble?
What do you think about the Proton Pump Inhibitors and Dementia? Are they linked? What is the risk?
Hi Alexa. Your question has now been answered at this link: https://simpleandpractical.com/proton-pump-inhibitors-cognitive-impairment-dementia/
What are the interactions between antibiotics and psychotropic medications?