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Episode 38: Bipolar Disease, Insulin Resistance and Metformin: New Research with Cynthia Calkin, MD

Episode 38: Bipolar Disease, Insulin Resistance and Metformin: New Research with Cynthia Calkin, MD

Nov 4, 2022 | 0 comments

  “The best way to think about insulin resistance is that it’s pre-diabetes. In the course of developing type 2 diabetes, which we see in much higher rates in people with bipolar disorder compared to the general population, one starts off with normal blood...
Episode 37: The Value of Paternity Leave for Children and Families with Richard Petts, PhD

Episode 37: The Value of Paternity Leave for Children and Families with Richard Petts, PhD

Oct 7, 2022 | 0 comments

  “When paternity leave comes into the picture you have a situation where parents are home together. Those processes are able to develop for both the mother and the father – there’s time for fathers to bond with their children, there’s time for...
Episode 36: The Role of Technology in Mental Health Care with Isaac Galatzer-Levy, PhD

Episode 36: The Role of Technology in Mental Health Care with Isaac Galatzer-Levy, PhD

Sep 8, 2022 | 0 comments

  “There is a company called NightWare, that developed a feature for PTSD that uses components from Apple Watch. One of the primary symptoms in PTSD is intense nightmares which are very distressing, they disrupt their sleep and really drive a lot of...
Episode 35: Disability, Psychotherapy, and Resilience with H. Penny Mishkin, MS, OTR

Episode 35: Disability, Psychotherapy, and Resilience with H. Penny Mishkin, MS, OTR

Aug 8, 2022 | 1 comment

  “I would say to any parent who has a child now or any adult who has a disability now – disabilities are looked at quite differently. They are accepted much more than they were when I was growing up. So, you can’t take things out of context, but I...
Episode 34: Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy for Physical Symptoms with Allan Abbass, MD

Episode 34: Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy for Physical Symptoms with Allan Abbass, MD

Jul 22, 2022 | 1 comment

  “Someone comes in and they are having these fainting attacks and neurological symptoms. They develop different anxiety channels, and the first goal is to help them be able to identify and feel their emotions and not have anxiety. Before getting there, we...
Episode 33: Probiotics Added to Antidepressants Improve Outcome: New Preliminary Research with Anna-Chiara Schaub (Basel, Switzerland)

Episode 33: Probiotics Added to Antidepressants Improve Outcome: New Preliminary Research with Anna-Chiara Schaub (Basel, Switzerland)

Jun 24, 2022 | 0 comments

  “We have those two groups with the probiotics and the placebo. The patients were allocated to the two groups and it was double-blind so we didn’t know if they took the probiotics or the placebo. They took it for four weeks and we did the assessments...
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Harvey Schwartz, MD Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Sidney Kimmel School of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Philadelphia (PCOP) and New York (PANY).

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