Garth Kroeker

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

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Optimal Sleep Duration

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The best study which examines the relationship between sleep duration and mortality risk was published in 2007 by Hublin et al in the journa...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

Somatoform Disorders & CFS : a discussion

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Somatoform disorders could be considered clusters or syndromes of physical symptoms which have a psychological cause. Here are some exampl...

A negative study on vitamin d supplementation

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21525520 this 2011 randomized, controlled, prospective study from the British Journal of Psychiatry show...
Friday, May 13, 2011

Music Therapy

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I believe that many creative modalities can be usefully included in a therapeutic relationship.    There are times when spoken dialog can be...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Alternative conceptions of "IQ"

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Standard IQ tests measure a particular set of intellectual skills.  But this leads to a big question about what exactly is being measured.  ...
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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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