psychology Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Wed, 07 Jul 2021 14:00:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 psychology Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 Impaired Decision Making in Depression – Treatment Implications https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/impaired-decision-making-in-depression-treatment-implications/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/impaired-decision-making-in-depression-treatment-implications/#respond Tue, 18 Aug 2020 01:22:50 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=17007 Why do depressed people make choices that are unlikely to be rewarded. And why aren’t they willing to make choices that are likely to be rewarded. In fact, why are depressed people less likely than people who are not depressed to choose to take an antidepressant, or begin psychotherapy, or follow the advice of a therapist? A meta-analysis of many ...

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]]> 9168 Sheri Johnson Presents on Mania https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/sheri-johnson-presents-on-mania/ Tue, 26 Jan 2016 04:35:16 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=9730 Every month the clinical team at Gateway Psychiatric gets together to review cases and to hear presentations on topics related to the treatment of patients with mood disorders and this past month we heard from Dr. Sheri Johnson at the University of California, Berkeley who talk to us about the CalMania project and her own work with patients with bipolar. ...

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