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PsychEd Episode 47: Understanding the DSM-V-TR with Dr. Michael First

PsychEd Episode 47: Understanding the DSM-V-TR with Dr. Michael First

In this episode, we present a focused summary of the latest changes in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) with our guest expert — Dr. Michael First, a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and internationally recognized expert on psychiatric diagnosis and assessment issues.

PsychEd Episode 46: Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy with Dr. Donald Lynam

PsychEd Episode 46: Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy with Dr. Donald Lynam

In this episode, we present a broad overview of antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy with our guest expert — Dr. Donald Lynam. Dr. Lynam is a clinical psychologist by training, and professor at Purdue university, where he heads the Purdue's Developmental Psychopathology, Psychopathy and Personality Lab.

PsychEd Episode 43: Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy with Dr. Emma Hapke and Dr. Daniel Rosenbaum

PsychEd Episode 43: Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy with Dr. Emma Hapke and Dr. Daniel Rosenbaum

This episode covers psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy with Dr Emma Hapke and Dr Daniel Rosenbaum, both of whom are psychiatrists at the University Health Network in Toronto and co-founders of UHN’s Nikean Psychedelic Psychotherapy Research Centre (in addition to being lecturers in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto).

PsychEd Episode 40: Suicide Epidemiology and Prevention with Dr. Juveria Zaheer

PsychEd Episode 40: Suicide Epidemiology and Prevention with Dr. Juveria Zaheer

This episode covers suicide epidemiology and prevention with Dr. Juveria Zaheer, a Clinician Scientist with the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and Education Administrator in the Gerald Sheff and Shanitha Kachan Emergency Department at CAMH in Toronto, Ontario. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

PsychEd Episode 34: Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression with Dr. Sandhya Prashad

PsychEd Episode 34: Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression with Dr. Sandhya Prashad

This episode covers ketamine for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) with Dr. Sandhya Prashad, a psychiatrist and the founder and medical director of Houston Ketamine Therapeutics. She has extensive expertise using ketamine and is one of the most experienced ketamine psychiatrists in the United States, with her clinical practice focusing on TRD and incorporating transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), sometimes in conjunction with ketamine.

PsychEd Episode 30: Anti-black Racism and Mental Health with Dr. Kwame McKenzie

PsychEd Episode 30: Anti-black Racism and Mental Health with Dr. Kwame McKenzie

This episode covers anti-black racism and mental health with Dr. Kwame McKenzie. Dr. McKenzie is an international expert on the social causes of illness, suicide, and the development of effective, equitable health systems. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a staff psychiatrist and Director of Health Equity at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

PsychEd Episode 29: Cultural Psychiatry with Dr. Eric Jarvis

PsychEd Episode 29: Cultural Psychiatry with Dr. Eric Jarvis

This episode covers the topic of cultural psychiatry with expert guest Dr. Eric Jarvis, Staff Psychiatrist and Director of the Cultural Consultation Service and the First Episode Psychosis Program at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Quebec and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University.