Garth Kroeker

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

Friday, January 11, 2013

Lamotrigine review: bipolar depression, unipolar depression, borderline personality, OCD

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Lamotrigine is a novel anticonvulsant.  Clearly it is useful for treating epilepsy, in terms of reducing seizure frequency in difficult case...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

N-acetylcysteine for OCD

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I've written a post about N-acetylcysteine before ( http://garthkroeker.blogspot.ca/2009/09/n-acetylcysteine-for-treatment-of.html ), wh...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Long-term clonazepam for panic disorder

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The treatment of anxiety disorders, particularly panic disorder, should emphasize behavioural and cognitive therapy, exercise, lifestyle fac...

Interesting Augmentations 2: L-methylfolate

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L-methylfolate is an active form of folic acid which enters the brain.  Folic acid supplementation has been considered for decades in treati...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Interesting Augmentations 1: creatine + SSRI

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From my annual review of articles from psychiatry journals, here is the first of a few which caught my eye: they're very simple studies ...
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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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