Garth Kroeker

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

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

The Business of Psychological Questionnaires

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Questionnaires are certainly in vogue in mental health research.  Often they are referred to in technical-sounding jargon, for example it is...
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Monday, November 9, 2015

Quetiapine for non-psychotic depression and anxiety

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I read a recent review last week which warned against the use of quetiapine for treating non-psychotic mood disorders. Yet, I believe ther...

Duloxetine (Cymbalta)

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Duloxetine (Cymbalta) is another newer antidepressant, approved in the US in 2004, and in Canada in 2007.  It is a reuptake inhibitor of bot...

Vortioxetine

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Vortioxetine is one of the newest antidepressants on the market, released in the U.S. in 2013.  It has serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

Desvenlafaxine (Pristiq)

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Desvenlafaxine (Pristiq) is an antidepressant that has been available since 2008-2009.  It is another example, similar to escitalopram, of a...
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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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