Garth Kroeker

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

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Astronomical Photographs

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For something completely different-- Have a look at NASA's "astronomy picture of the day" site: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ It...

N-Acetylcysteine for treatment of compulsive disorders

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N-acetylcysteine is an antioxidant which modulates the glutamate system in the brain. Glutamate is actually the most prevalent neurotransmi...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

Randomized Controlled Trials in psychiatry

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There is a good debate presented in the September 2009 issue of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (pp. 637-643), about the importance of r...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Perils of Positive Thinking?

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Joanne Wood et al. had an article published in Psychological Science in June 2009. It was a study in which subjects with low self-esteem f...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

A list of individuals who developed talents later in life

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This is a follow-up to my language-learning metaphor entry. One comment was about the unlikelihood of mastering a "new language" (...
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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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