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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
Clinicians’ guide to screening tests in mental health
Why cut-off scores on screening tests matter to clinicians
The Mood Disorders Questionnaire is being used inappropriately
Don’t use screening questionnaires for bipolar disorder
What is a p value? (video)
“No significant difference”: Not different, but not the same
An example of misleading means (averages)
Non-inferiority comparisons
What is Effect Size and how should it be interpreted?
Recommended books about EBM
Rating Scales
Scientific Literature Evaluation
Expert Interviews
Audio
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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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Is tardive dyskinesia still a problem: Stanley Caroff, MD
Do second generation antipsychotics have a lower risk of tardive dyskinesia: Stanley Caroff, MD
More on whether second generation antipsychotics have a lower risk of tardive dyskinesia: Stanley Caroff, MD
Tips on how to identify tardive dyskinesia: Stanley Caroff, MD
What to do about the antipsychotic if the patient develops tardive dyskinesia: Stanley Caroff, MD
What to do about anticholinergics if tardive dyskinesia occurs: Stanley Caroff, MD
Valbenazine and deutrabenazine for tardive dyskinesia: Stanley Caroff, MD
Tips on managing akathisia: Stanley Caroff, MD
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Sexual dysfunction Part 1-Assessment: Anita Clayton, MD
Sexual dysfunction Part 2-Flibanserin: Anita Clayton, MD
Sexual dysfunction Part 3-Flibanserin & Bremelanotide: Anita Clayton, MD
Sexual dysfunction part 4-PDE-5 inhibitors & testosterone: Anita Clayton, MD
Sexual dysfunction part 5-Cyproheptadine & Yohimbine: Anita Clayton, MD
Sexual dysfunction part 6-CAM: Anita Clayton, MD
Sexual dysfunction part 7-How to identify it: Anita Clayton, MD
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Tips on assessing and managing suicidality: Interview with Jack Krasuski, MD on November 4, 2016
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14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 1: Rajnish Mago, MD
14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 2: Rajnish Mago, MD
14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 3: Rajnish Mago, MD
14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 4: Rajnish Mago, MD
14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 5; Rajnish Mago, MD
14 Key Questions About Vilazodone-Part 6: Rajnish Mago, MD
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Tips on writing a letter at termination of treatment-Rajnish Mago, MD
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How to teach a powerful Relaxation Practice: Rajnish Mago, MD
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Part 1 of Psychodynamic psychopharmacology: Interview with David Mintz, MD on August 4, 2016
Part 2 of Psychodynamic psychopharmacology: Interview with David Mintz, MD on August 4, 2016
Part 3 of psychodynamic psychopharmacology: Interview with David Mintz, MD on August 4, 2016
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): Interview with John O’Reardon, MD on September 10, 2016
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Bipolar disorder: Interview with Gary Sachs, MD on September 29, 2016
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Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 1-Shawn Shea, MD
Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 2-Suicide Assessment-Shawn Shea, MD
Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 3-Validity Techniques-Shawn Shea, MD
Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 4-Interviewing paranaoid patients-Shawn Shea, MD
Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 5-Medication Interest Model-Shawn Shea, MD
Psychiatric Interviewing-Part 6-About the book-Shawn Shea, MD
Video
Anita Clayton, MD
Management of sexual dysfunction
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
Alarmy: An alarm that makes you PROVE that you are really awake!
Complementary and alternative medicines: Resources
BEST books about doing presentations
Recommended plays for patients, their families, clinicians, or trainees
How to lose weight
How to judge the quality of a journal
YouTube and psychiatry
Resources for psychiatry residents
Tips for residents and medical students on call for psychiatry
Some mnemonics for mental health clinicians
What are 504 plans?
Productivity Tips
Tips on getting the most out of attending live meetings (conferences, congresses)
How to make a poster
How to make a poster for less than 10 dollars
Famous people who had a mental disorder
Information about medications
Interviewing Patients
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
Psychiatric Interviewing: The Art of Understanding (Book Review)
BEST books on psychiatric interviewing (Free)
YouTube videos about psychiatric evaluation
Psychopathology and Disorders (Link to YouTube)
Psychiatric Interviews for Teaching: Psychosis (Link to YouTube)
Psychiatric Interviews for Teaching: Depression (Link to YouTube)
Psychiatric Interviews for Teaching: Anxiety (Link to YouTube)
Psychiatric Interviews for Teaching: Mania (Link to YouTube)
Acute dystonic reaction to an antipsychotic (Link to YouTube)
Patient education
FDA medication guides
Patient handouts
What is the ONE website that is BEST for all your patient education needs?
Quizzes
365 Advanced Topics Quizzes
365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 1
365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 2
365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 3
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365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 29
365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 30
365 Advanced Topics in Psychopharmacology: Quiz 31
Other Quizzes
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.
BEST Books on Psychiatric Interviewing
BEST books for clinicians about evaluating and treating personality disorders
BEST Books on Learning Psychotherapy
BEST books about doing presentations
BEST Books on Statistics for Clinicians
BEST books on Evidence-Based Medicine
BEST Articles for Psychiatry Residents
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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.
BEST books about improving social skills
BEST books about how to lose weight
BEST books on how to change habits
BEST books on adult ADHD: For clinicians
BEST books on adult ADHD: For patients and families
Best Book on Mindfulness Meditation
Book review: Mindfulness prescription for Adult ADHD
Book review: ADHD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
BEST books on bipolar disorder: For patients and families
BEST books on depressive disorders: For patients and families
BEST books on Adult Asperger’s Syndrome
How to choose a rehab (recommended book for persons with substance use disorders and their families)
BEST book on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
Best books on OCD for patients
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JAMA. this month had interesting article on AUD. They used WHO Criteria to study risk reduction and medication. Can you comment on any differences in the criteria and also on the issue of harm reduction versus abstention strategies? Thanks
Can you please comment on the evaluation and treatment of tic disorders?
Noted! Will do soon.
What is best clinical evidence to provide patients requesting medical approval for plasma donation ? I have been denying these requests. First d/t protein bound drugs that will be disrupted and second, the donation centers ask for excessive details pertaining to the patients mental health information: diagnosis, treatments, all medications, safety profile. The forms are long and cumbersome.
Thank you for your question. It has now been answered at this link: https://simpleandpractical.com/blood-plasma-donation-mental-health/
Hello Dr. Mago,
Your daily posts are worth more than what we are paying for.
Thanks
Pankaj Kishore MD
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?