Garth Kroeker

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

Thursday, April 22, 2010

"Brain Training" ineffective?

Adrian Owen et al. published a letter in Nature this week, summarizing the results of a study examining the effects of playing "brain ...

Monday, April 19, 2010

A good site for free cognitive training games

I found this free site which offers exercises which you can use to practice memory, concentration, and reasoning skills: http://www.cambri...

Friday, April 9, 2010

Optimal Learning & Training Schedules

An interesting question I have often considered has to do with the most efficient way to use time, in order to prepare for something, or to ...

Thursday, April 8, 2010

The Nature of Happiness - book review

The Nature of Happiness by Desmond Morris, is a brief little book describing the author's beliefs about various types of happiness. I...

Friday, March 19, 2010

Antidepressant + CBT superior to either treatment alone for treating social anxiety

Blanco et al. published this study in the March 2010 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. Here's a link to the abstract: http://ww...

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About Me

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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