PsychEd: Educational Psychiatry Podcast

Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners.
This episode covers interventional psychiatry with Dr. Sean Nestor, an interventional psychiatrist and clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto, where he serves as Assistant Director of the Psychiatry Program and oversees the Clinician Researcher Track (CResT) residency within the Department of Psychiatry. His research program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre focuses on advancing the clinical application of neuromodulation therapies to improve outcomes across a wide range of psychiatric disorders.
The learning objectives for this episode are as follows
Define interventional psychiatry and distinguish it from traditional pharmacologic and psychotherapy-based approaches
Describe the role of interventional psychiatry in clinical practice, including identifying patient populations most likely to benefit from neuromodulation treatment
Identify pathways to become involved in research and scholarly work within the field of interventional psychiatry

Guest: Dr. Sean Nestor

Hosts: Dr. Pooja Sankar (PGY1), Michael Wang (MS4), Dr. Kate Braithwaite

Audio editing: Dr. Kate Braithwaite

Time Stamps:
(2:25) - Defining Interventional Psychiatry (IP) and its role in Psychiatric practice
(4:20) - Evolution of Interventional Psychiatry (IP)
(8:40) - Patients who will benefit from IP modalities
(12:35) - Other factors to consider when assessing a patient for IP 
(15:30) - rTMS
(19:15) - Description of a typical rTMS session
(23:50) - ECT
(26:45) - Ketamine
(29:05) - Other Investigational Modalities
(30:45) - Maintenance treatment
(35:30) - Medication and IP
(37:55) - Addressing stigma of ECT
(43:15) - Discussion on place of IP in Depression management decision tree
(47:00) - How to get involved in IP
(50:10) - Rewarding aspects of working in IP
(52:25) - Challenges of working in IP
(53:40) - Future of the field 

Resources:
⁠Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy (SAINT) | Stanford Health Care⁠
⁠CTMSS | International medical society dedicated to optimizing clinical practice, supporting research, and increasing access to high quality, evidence-based Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
⁠The Interventional Psychiatry Consortium⁠

References:
Andrade, J. & Brito, M.. (2023). When the SAINT goes marching in – A novel transcranial magnetic stimulation protocol shows miraculous promise. European Psychiatry. 66. S835-S835. 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.1768. 
⁠Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) 2023 Update on Clinical Guidelines for Management of Major Depressive Disorder in Adults | CANMAT⁠
Conway, C. R., & Sackeim, H. A. (2022). Interventional Psychiatry: The revolution has arrived. Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry. ⁠https://doi.org/10.47626/1516-4446-2022-0046⁠ 
Rakesh, G., Cordero, P., Khanal, R., Himelhoch, S. S., & Rush, C. R. (2024). Optimally combining transcranial magnetic stimulation with antidepressants in major depressive disorder: A systematic review and Meta-analysis. Journal of affective disorders, 358, 432–439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.05.037
Yavi, M., Lee, H., Henter, I. D., Park, L. T., & Zarate, C. A., Jr (2022). Ketamine treatment for depression: a review. Discover mental health, 2(1), 9. ⁠https://doi.org/10.1007/s44192-022-00012-3⁠
Zaidi, A., Shami, R., Sewell, I. J., Cao, X., Giacobbe, P., Rabin, J. S., Goubran, M., Hamani, C., Swardfager, W., Davidson, B., Lipsman, N., & Nestor, S. M. (2024). Antidepressant class and concurrent rTMS outcomes in major depressive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. EClinicalMedicine, 75, 102760. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102760 

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Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the basics of neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
Hosts: 
Eric Yu (MS3)
Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
Dr. Shaoyuan Wang (PGY5)
Audio Editing: 
Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)

References:
1. Park, J., Tan, J., Krzeminski, S., Hazeghazam, M., Bandlamuri, M., & Carlson, R. W. (2017). Malignant catatonia warrants early psychiatric‐critical care collaborative management: two cases and literature review. Case Reports in Critical Care, 2017(1), 1951965.
2. Simon, L. V., Hashmi, M. F., & Callahan, A. L. (2023). Neuroleptic malignant syndrome. In StatPearls 
[Internet]. StatPearls Publishing.
2. Tan, C. M., & Kumachev, A. (2023). Neuroleptic malignant syndrome. CMAJ, 195(43), E1481-E1481.
4. Trollor, J. N., & Sachdev, P. S. (1999). Electroconvulsive treatment of neuroleptic malignant syndrome: a review and report of cases. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 33(5), 650-659.
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Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners.
This episode covers Working with Borderline Personality Disorder in the Emergency Department with Dr. Bruce Fage, a psychiatrist in Toronto working in emergency and acute care psychiatry, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. His interests include the relational and systems issues that shape psychiatric care in crisis settings. He is also a former founding member of PsychEd!
The learning objectives for this episode are as follows:
Explain how the emergency department environment influences presentations of borderline personality disorder

Know when to apply the diagnosis of borderline personality in the emergency setting

Demonstrate effective management strategies for patients with BPD in the ED

Evaluate appropriate use of emergency and inpatient care for BPD presentations

Guest:
Dr. Bruce Fage
Hosts:
Sara Abrahamson (MS3)
Shelly Palchik (MS4)
Angad Singh (PGY2)
Audio editing:
Angad Singh (PGY2)
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Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the basics of serotonin syndrome.
Hosts: 
Eric Yu (MS3)
Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
Dr. Shaoyuan Wang (PGY5)
Audio Editing: 
Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)
References:
1. Boyer, E. W. (2024). Serotonin syndrome (serotonin toxicity). In UpToDate.
2. Buckley, N. A., Dawson, A. H., & Isbister, G. K. (2014). Serotonin syndrome. Bmj, 348.
3. Dunkley, E. J. C., Isbister, G. K., Sibbritt, D., Dawson, A. H., & Whyte, I. M. (2003). The Hunter Serotonin Toxicity Criteria: simple and accurate diagnostic decision rules for serotonin toxicity. Qjm, 96(9), 635-642.
4. Foong, A. L., Grindrod, K. A., Patel, T., & Kellar, J. (2018). Demystifying serotonin syndrome (or serotonin toxicity). Canadian Family Physician, 64(10), 720-727.
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Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This is our second book club episode centered around the novel Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health by Thomas Insel, MD.
This book is a part memoir / part manifesto written by one of our generation’s most important leaders in neuroscience and psychiatry, Dr. Thomas Insel. Dr. Insel served as the director of the NIMH for 13 years from 2002-2015. Healing is replete with his reflections on personal and clinical experiences as well as epidemiological data, research, and policies related to mental health. Dr. Insel argues that medicine’s failure to significantly reduce the mortality and morbidity of psychiatric illnesses is less due to a lack of scientific progress, and more a result of poor implementation of existing interventions that are already well supported by the evidence.
Guest: Dr. Thomas Insel
Hosts: Dr. Gaurav Sharma - Staff psychiatrist working in Nunavut, Canada
Dr. Kate Braithwaite - Family doctor from South Africa
Ahmad Khan - MS4 at Western University
Dr. Sophie Gregoire-Mitha - PGY1 Psychiatry resident in Manitoba
Audio editing: Dr. Gaurav Sharma
Episode Evaluation: Dr. Angad Singh
Our discussion is divided into 3 main sections:
(2:48): Main themes from the book
(15:58): Clinical application of strategies discussed in the book
(41:30): Reflections on the book in the current Psychiatric landscape
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