Garth Kroeker

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

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Rating Scales: limitations & ideas for change

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A visitor's comment from one of my previous posts reminded me of an issue I'd thought about before. In mental health research, sympt...
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Health benefits of dietary nut intake

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Dietary nut intake is strongly associated with a variety of health benefits, particularly a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease....
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Antidepressants only effective in severest depression?

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A recent article in JAMA by Fournier et al. is a meta-analysis of antidepressant treatment effects assessed in relation to depression severi...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

A Gene-Environment-Phenotype Surface

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I've been thinking of a way to describe the interaction between genes, environment, and phenotype qualitatively as a mathematical surfac...
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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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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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