Garth Kroeker

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

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Antidepressants in Pregnancy: Autism Risk?

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On December 14, 2015, Boukhris, Sheehy, Mottron, and Berard published a paper in JAMA Pediatrics which described their  study of the associ...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Changes in Psychiatric Culture -- Wait Lists, "Efficiency," and Superficial Care

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Psychiatrists are more commonly offering the following services: 1) "Assessment":  This is a single 1-hour interview, yielding a...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Cochrane Review: ADHD medications have lower-quality evidence than most people believe

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A new Cochrane review, published on November 25, 2015 by authors Storebø and Zwi, looked at the use of stimulants to treat childhood ADHD (...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Potentially Dangerous Biases in Policy Planning Meetings

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Administrative meetings are are a common part of many people's professional lives.  Teachers, academics, health care workers, engineers....
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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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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