psychopharmacology Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:47:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 psychopharmacology Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 Neuroscience Based Nomenclature https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/neuroscience-based-nomenclature/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 18:03:51 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=12572 Neuroscience Based Nomenclature is an initiative by a number of prestigious organizations supporting research in neuroscience and psychiatry to change the way that we talk about psychotropic / psychiatric medications. Why this might be useful is illustrated by conversations that are likely familiar to all psychiatrists… A severely depressed patient with bipolar 1 is discussing her need for a change ...

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]]> 12572 ECT for Bipolar Depression https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/ect-bipolar-depression/ Sun, 25 Jan 2015 01:57:05 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=8839 ECT for bipolar depression may be much more effective than psychiatric medications. That is the conclusion of the recently published, well designed study of 73 in patients with bipolar depression who had failed adequate trials with mood stabilizers. In the initial 2 months after the patients were randomized to either ECT or algorithm based pharmacotherapy (psychiatric medications carefully managed and ...

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