Garth Kroeker

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

Thursday, January 23, 2014

5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP)

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The amino acid tryptophan is widely present in dietary proteins; it is metabolized, in a rate-limiting enzymatic step,  to 5-hydroxytryptoph...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Zinc supplements in mental health

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Zinc is a trace mineral which is necessary for a variety of metabolic functions in the body.  The neuropharmacology of zinc certainly includ...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

antidepressants in rapid cycling

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http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/202/4/251.abstract In this short editorial by Michael Thase, the argument is made that  a diagnosis of bipo...

Prazosin for PTSD update

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In this article by Raskind et al. in the American Journal of Psychiatry ( Sep. 2013), combat veterans with PTSD were given prazosin or place...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Journal Review 2013: 1. American Journal of Psychiatry

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I'd like to summarize articles I found interesting during this past year's survey of journals--I'll start with The American Jour...
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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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