Garth Kroeker

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

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Naturalistic study comparing quetiapine, ziprasidone, olanzapine, and risperidone

This study caught my eye recently (here's a link to the abstract:) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20334680 It's a naturalist...

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

A Learning Model of Psychological Change: the necessity of work & practice

It requires a great deal of work to bring about psychological change. The brain is a dynamic organ, its development influenced by genetic ...

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 ...

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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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