Garth Kroeker

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

Monday, January 11, 2016

Light therapy for non-seasonal depression

Lam et al. have published a study this month in JAMA Psychiatry ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26580307 ) in which they show that pe...

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Omega-3 supplements: update

A number of negative studies have come out in the past year or two, regarding various types of supplements. I think it is good to be w...

Parenting & Psychotherapy

There are many books out there about how to be a better parent. The fact that this genre is popular is, in my opinion, a good sign of soci...

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Antidepressants in Pregnancy: Autism Risk?

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

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

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About Me

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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