Garth Kroeker

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

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Non-human Primate Models of Psychiatric Treatment Effects

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Before starting the main body of my post, here's a little introduction: I've been doing quite a bit of reading lately about the hist...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Authoritative, Authoritarian, and Permissive Self-Parenting

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Here's a nice summary of different parenting styles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenting_styles The authoritarian style is strict an...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Becoming a "Self Whisperer"

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Well, you may accuse me of having sentimental tastes in film, but I really did enjoy the 1998 movie with Robert Redford, called The Horse Wh...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Physical Warmth promotes Interpersonal Warmth

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In an amusing study by LE Williams and JA Bargh, published in Science in 2008, subjects exposed to warm objects behaved in a manner which w...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Chocolate & Stress

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This is a sequel to one of my previous posts: http://garthkroeker.blogspot.com/2008/10/chocolate.html A recent study looked at various horm...
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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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