Congratulations to Brent Schnipke on completing his CL psychiatry fellowship, and we are excited to welcome him as newly minted Northwestern CL Psychiatry faculty! NM Psychiatry

Appreciative of this excellent review article on cholinergic rebound syndrome and other clozapine discontinuation sequelae. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Was a pleasure supervising Valeria Ceron Mejia’s pre-med internship learning about subanesthetic ketamine infusions and working on a IRB application for a ketamine clinic registry NM Psychiatry

Best of luck to Valeria Ceron at Yale, who did a great job working on our ketamine clinic registry during her pre-med internship. ⁦NM Psychiatry⁩

Ever think about the ethics of therapists doing psychic work? Was interesting chatting with The Guardian regarding a psychiatrist’s perspective. NM Psychiatry #readpsychotherapyjournalsnotminds amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

I do love black licorice, and I am delighted that its successful RCT for functional dyspepsia is now supplemented by its exemplar status in activation of the possible new sixth basic taste (ammonium chloride unique sour taste via otopetrin 1 channel) healthline.com/health-news/ne…

Insightful examination of depression's phenomenology in the recent World Psychiatry article - succinct but illuminates the nuanced facets for to enable empathizing with the a severe depression experience. #Depressionphenomenology, #listentopatients ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

The Northwestern Medicine Ketamine Clinic for difficult to treat depression started our first infusions a couple months ago. I chat about the new clinic in a podcast for NM colleagues in the Better Edge Podcast series here. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nor…

Was not expecting to look at a study this morning (large, but retrospective) supporting Viagra to be decrease Alzhiemer’s risk, and dont think we should just put it in the water, but here it is: neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WN…

Cool scoping review on ethics of involuntary psychiatric treatment. Tickled that my virtue ethics article to was included. #psychiatricethics NM Psychiatry mdpi.com/2227-9032/12/4…

Suboxone improves cognitive fuction. Not totally surprising, but I’d not really thought about that facet prior. Thanks for studying it Abhishek et al! journals.lww.com/psychopharmaco….

Excited for mirtazepine’s status in akithisia efficacy to shine in this meta-analysis. I’d not augmented with B6 for akithisia prior, always cool to learn about a new tool. Surprised gabapentin not looked at though. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Fully impressed at the system detail neuroscientists could peruse with this AI utilizing technology for brain sample reconstruction. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Not surprising that rTMS was so much more effective than another antidepressant for moderate TRD in this RCT, though i would expect greater results with 30-36 TMS sessions than the 25 in this study protocol psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…

Unethical and criminal prescribing that led to Matthew Perry's death. I discussed the risks and benefits of subanesthetic ketamine infusions for treatment of depression with NBC. #ketamine #matthewperry NM Psychiatry nbcnews.com/health/health-…

Z-drugs cardiovascular safety superior to benzodiazepines in this helpful study academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance…

Time for a forest plot on the GLP-1 receptor agonists and suicidality studies jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Our study on an evidence based COVID-19 ICU sedation bundle ended up exemplifying the effect of healthcare system strain on intensive care practices (not what we hoped for!). NM Psychiatry #institutionalstrain link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Had a blast collaborating with Lisa Rosenthal on our article for SeminNeurol about a practical approach to altered mental status, focusing on psychiatrist navigation of delirium and psychiatric etiologies. NM Psychiatry thieme-connect.com/products/ejour…