Googling depression
In the USA, when googling "depression" patients will be presented with a link to the PHQ-9 screening test.
Google has developed this in collaboration with the National Alliance on Mental Illness - and Ken Duckworth, the alliance's medical director, debates the merits of this approach with Simon Gilbody, from the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York.
Also joining this podcast is David Gilbert, mental health services user and director of InHealth Associates, who argues that it's only through patient involvement that real improvements to mental health can be obtained.
Read the debate and commentary:
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Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 11, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Diabetes Core Update - September 2017
Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 15 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatmen...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - August 26, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts
J. Sloan Manning, MD - Recognition and Treatment of Bipolar Depression: Exploring a Patient ’s Journey From Diagnosis to Treatment
Recognition and Treatment of Bipolar Depression: Exploring a Patient’s Journey From Diagnosis to Treatment (Source: Peerview CME/CE Audio Podcast - Neurology International)
Source: Peerview CME/CE Audio Podcast - Neurology International - August 18, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education Tags: Science, Medicine Source Type: podcasts
Probiotic May Ease Depression in IBS Patients
Dr Alan Jacobs reviews a pilot study ' s intriguing results. (Source: Medscape Pharmacists Podcast)
Source: Medscape Pharmacists Podcast - August 18, 2017 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Emotions as a Result of Approach and Avoidance
There is a powerful theory in psychology, proposed by Carver and Scheier, about how emotions arise as an indication of how we are progressing towards our goals. Today’s post will be elaborating and extending on that model.
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Basically this cybernetic theory of emotions, is based on that fact that most of our actions are goal directed, we are either trying to archive a desired end state / goal; or we are trying to avoid an undesirable end-state or anti-goal. The same action or overt behavior may be motivated by different goal related orientation. For e.g., a student studying for a test may ...
Source: The Mouse Trap - August 6, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: emotion movement approach system avoidance system basic emotions Source Type: podcasts
PodMed – Week of July 17, 2017
This week’s topics include diet quality and longevity, health and coffee, treating depression, and prostatectomy in early prostate cancer. Program notes: 0:33 Coffee drinking and longevity 1:33 Over 185,000 people followed in one study 2:32 Can’t advocate for a type of coffee 3:01 Prostatectomy or not in early prostate cancer 4:01 Higher incidence of side […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - July 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Death and Dying Diet Mental health PodMed Prevention Source Type: podcasts
Research Summaries: Childhood IQ and risk of bipolar disorder in adulthood: prospective birth cohort study
This study focused on association of childhood IQ (which is an imperfect measure of true intelligence) with propensity for bipolar disorder in young adulthood. This study did not look at creativity and did not look at actual occurrence of bipolar disorder, thus all the results should not be extrapolated wildly.
Childhood IQ at age 8 was measured using WISC-III and separate verbal and performance IQ as well as Full IQ scores were used in analysis. Propensity towards bipolar was measured using HCL-32 (hypo-mania checklist) which consist of 32 yes/no answers to statements like ‘I am more easily distracted’ when in...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 14, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: bipolar intelligence Research Summaries Bipolar disorder IQ Source Type: podcasts
Managing antidepressants in treatment-refractory depression, CPAP and CVD in OSA, behavioral counseling to promote healthy lifestyle, and more
Editor's Summary by Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the July 11, 2017 issue (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - July 11, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Research Summaries: Positive Psychology in Clinical Practice
Review articles are themselves supposed to be a summary of a field of inquiry, so it appeared queer summarizing a review article; but here I go. This post summarizes a 2005 review article appearing in Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. As it is more than a decade since the publication of this article by Martin Seligman, Angela Duckworth and Tracy Steen, I think it is appropriate to see how far the field has come since then and what still remains to be done.
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Positive psychology (PP), in this article, is seen through the triple lens of focusing on subjective well-being or pleasure; flow, eng...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: happiness positive psychology Research Summaries Angela Duckworth Martin Seligman Source Type: podcasts
Research Summaries: Costs and Benefits of Consuming
I am toying around with a new idea of providing research summaries for a few select articles that I read and find interesting. Do let me know if you find them useful. The idea is that one could read the research summary to get a good idea about the paper and then decide to dig deeper into the original source if one’s interest has been piqued sufficiently. The research summaries would be short and neither a substitute for the original article nor a copy n paste of the abstract.
So here is the first of the research summaries. The paper is Costs and Benefits of Consuming by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and you can read it he...
Source: The Mouse Trap - June 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Research Summaries consumerism happiness Maslow's hierarchy of needs Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Source Type: podcasts
