Garth Kroeker

a discussion about psychiatry, mental illness, emotional problems, and things that help

Showing posts with label Bipolar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bipolar. Show all posts
Monday, June 24, 2013

Ketamine in Psychiatry

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I have just updated and edited this article over the past few days. Ketamine is a drug which has been used in general anesthesia for decad...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Is Seroquel XR better than generic quetiapine?

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A supplement written by Christoph Correll for The Canadian Journal of Diagnosis (September 2009) was delivered--free--into my office mailbox...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Bipolar Depression

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The depression which occurs in the context of bipolar disorder may have a variety of unique features (sometimes such a depression may occur ...
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Omega-3 Supplementation

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Omega-3 fatty acids are present in a variety of foods. The fatty acids EPA and DHA are present mainly in fish such as salmon, herring, macke...
Monday, February 9, 2009

Lithium

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I'd like to develop this post gradually, as there is a lot of evidence to summarize and refer to. But here is a start: "Mood stabil...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Bipolar Disorder

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I have neglected so far to discuss a very important diagnostic category: bipolar disorder. In bipolar disorder, there can be episodes of se...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

ECT

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ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) is a hospital procedure in which the patient undergoes general anesthesia, after which an electric current i...
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GK
I've been a psychiatrist since July, 2000. Most of my clinical experience has been with university students who have come to my outpatient clinic. For the first two years of my practice, I completed a subspecialty fellowship in mood disorders, during which I was trying to help patients struggling with treatment-resistant depression or bipolar disorder. I enjoy trying to combine ideas from different fields within the sciences and humanities--I love the idea of a creative, collaborative, interdisciplinary, yet also evidence-based approach to thinking about the mind, about medicine, and about life. I particularly like to indulge in metaphor and use analogies as a part of my therapeutic style. Yet, I find that much of my work as a physician can be simple and pragmatic, and I believe that there often can be straightforward medical solutions to many of the ailments my patients tell me about.
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