Race-based traumatic stress affects mental health in young people of color. A 2019 paper in American Psychologist puts that racial socialization into a framework some listeners may be familiar with. [Link]Published On: 7/25/20Duration: 5 minutes, 51 secondsTranscript: Dr. Feder: Today on 60 Second Psych: Preventing Trauma with Racial Socialization. Take it away...

What can mental health clinicians do to help our patients who may be dealing with discrimination in their day-to-day lives? Assertiveness is a specific skill that we can model and teach our patients. A paper by Bhardwaj and Vishwas in the International Journal of Advanced Scientific Research underlines the importance...

Patricia Eaves reveals common pitfalls and shares her top tips for communicating with patients with autism. Read more in the recommended text, "The TEACCH Approach to Autism Spectrum Disorders" by Gary B. Mesibov et al. Plus the word of the day: Effect Size.Published On: 7/20/20Duration: 18 minutes, 12 secondsGot feedback? Take the...

What practical role do we have as mental health professionals in creating a more fair and just society? Doctors Javeed Sukhera and Chris Watling published a framework for integrating implicit bias recognition in medical education that makes a lot of sense. Here’s their six point framework. Sukhera J, Watling C. A...

In 2004 the FDA approved the first stimulant for adult ADHD: Adderall XR. Now it’s nearly 20 years later, and some of those patients are elderly. Yet there are only a few studies of stimulants in people over age 50 ─ yes that’s the medical definition of elderly these days...

Joseph Goldberg, MD shares his top psychopharm strategies for highly-treatment resistant depression, and weighs in on whether further medication trials are ever futile.Published On: 7/13/2020Duration: 15 minutes, 46 secondsRelated Articles: "When Further Medication Trials Seem Futile," The Carlat Psychiatry Report, June/July 2020Got feedback? Take the podcast survey.

Whether gardening outdoors or hiking in the woods, getting back to nature is generally good for mental health. But what about just getting naked? Today we report on the first randomized controlled trial of naked activity on body-image anxiety. [Link]Published On: 7/11/20Duration: 1 minute, 31 secondsTranscript:Whether gardening outdoors or hiking...

It’s tempting to think that melatonin will help in bipolar disorder. As we covered last month, disrupted circadian rhythms are one of the leading causes of bipolar, and blue-light blocking glasses ─ which increase the brain’s own melatonin ─ are effective in mania, and melatonin works in circadian rhythm disorders like jet lag. But...

A podcast you can share with your patients. Dr. Greg Sazima walks us through a stress reduction technique that combines mindfulness with abdominal breathing. Dr. Sazima is the author of the upcoming book, Practically Mindful: A Physician’s No-Nonsense Guide to Meditation from Mango Press.Published On: 7/6/2020Duration: 12 minutes, 2 secondsTranscript:Today we have a...

This week we’re podcasting from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders 2020 conference, where we’ve been scouring the virtual halls for all that is practical and newsworthy. The yield is high so tune in for a new episode every day. Today, an up-to-date review of the microbiome in mood disorders.Published...