An Independent Voice for Behavioral Health
Episode 21: What success in mental health looks like on Functional MRI machine images of the brain. Download and Share the Ambassador Slides HANDOUT. Audio version: The “clean-up and repair” cells in the brain use Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor to repair and rebuild new nerve growth in the Central Nervous System. See Figure 1 below from … Read more
Episode 15: Download and Share my Cheat-Sheet for Mixing Dangerous Prescription Medications. Polypharmacy is a term used to describe the interaction of multiple medications with increased risk of adverse outcomes including disability and death. The most commonly reported definition of polypharmacy was the numerical definition of five or more medications daily (n = 51, 46.4% … Read more
Episode 8: How childhood neurodevelopment turns into road rage, or becomes rewired completely. You decide. (This one will save loss, pain, and lives.) Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) is an official diagnosis for an anger control problem. It is characterized by impulsive, unexpected anger and aggression that is disproportionate to the situation. The diagnosis code is … Read more
Episode 7: Teaching tool for medication classes in severe psychiatric illnesses. Figure 1. This is the table of contents for the Clinical Handbook I wrote as a teaching tool for advance practitioners. I taped the below graphic on the walls of each office where I supervised a busy psychiatric urgent care. It was helpful in … Read more