and spiritual health. We will prescribe medication when needed, offer therapeutic exploration for those who are ready, and assist in lifestyle modifications to help you maintain structure and support in your life. Our goal is your personal growth. If you allow us to be your partner in your pa...
Psychiatric hospitals should not merely be protective places to wait for the medication to take effect. If you're a clinician, advocate for much broader and better care for your patients. If you're a patient or a member of a patient's family, ask questions about the kind of counseling tha...
easy-to-use interventions, such as letters, are effective, but whether this extends to other medication classes is unknown. For preventive CBT, there is some evidence that it can help successfully discontinue antidepressants.
Psychiatric hospitals should not merely be protective places to wait for the medication to take effect. If you're a clinician, advocate for much broader and better care for your patients. If you're a patient or a member of a patient's family, ask questions about the kind of counseling tha...
Primary care physicians at the GHC frequentlyprescribe antidepressant medication and can refer patients to the GHC MentalHealth Services. Both intervention and usual care patients could also self-referto a GHC mental health care provider. Usual care for diabetes mellitus inthe GHC is provided by the ...
In such a forward test, a clinician could make their prediction and clinical decision (e.g., will a patient enter remission if they prescribe a certain drug? If so, prescribe drug). In parallel, a trained model could also make its prediction, with both the model and clinician assessed at...
In Osorio's pilot study, 6 medication and ayahuasca naive participants (4 women) were given 2.2 ml/kg of a standardised preparation of ayahuasca containing 0.8 mg/ml DMT and 0.21 mg/ml of harmine. Measurement of depressive symptoms was with the clinician rated Hamilton Depression ...
Pharmacotherapy is an effective treatment modality across psychiatric disorders. Nevertheless, many patients discontinue their medication at some point. Evidence-based guidance for patients, clinicians, and policymakers on rational discontinuation strate
We consider structural factors to arise from the complexities of medical and medicolegal systems and the contemporary patterns of financing medical care; we postulate that these complexities often compel prescribers to start medications, with associated disincentives for decreasing or discontinuing those ...
Thoughtful Psychiatry aims to provide psychiatric care that is inquisitive, empathic, collaborative, and patient-centered. We treat patients as individuals rather than focusing only on diagnosis. We view the relationship between clinician and patient as central to treatment. ...