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This Is Your Brain On Drugs Psychiatry Podcast
Hosted by Cody Armstrong, MD · EN
Join Cody Armstrong as he takes you on an adventure through psychiatric medications and beyond, breaking down these oft misunderstood drugs into easy, concise, and digestible pearls with his patented punk rock flare and a healthy dose of real science. Come explore these drugs like never before in fascinating detail whether you are a student, nurse, doc, patient, or just want to learn more. Listen to episodes on the podcast platform of your choice, follow along on YouTube with ease with slides and audio, or download slides at no cost at www.punkrockpsychiatrist.com. This Is Your Brain on Drugs Psychiatry Podcast will never charge you, show you an ad, or take sponsorship dollars from anyone because that just wouldn't be punk rock!
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E79: ADHD: Stimulants: Adverse (Side) Effects Part 3: Substance Abuse Risk
Mar 600:45:57Tap to summarizeToday I will wrap up the last episode on adverse effects of stimulant medications used to treat ADHD. I will be discussing the black box warning regarding abuse, misuse, and addiction. This risk is very much overstated, and it leads to providers withholding potentially life changing medication from a lot of patients, so today I will be going over the scientific research on how risky these medications are, when to worry about it, and what to do when actual concern exists, so you won't want to miss this one!
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E33: Antidepressant Efficacy Part 3: The Case for Antidepressants
Mar 400:48:33Tap to summarizeSo we had two episodes on the efficacy of antidepressants and I think I may have been a little hard on them, so I decided to make a part 3 where I instill some hope in these medications. They work great for so many people, yet so many people hate them as well. How can that be? And why do their effectiveness numbers look so abysmal? Find out on this episode!
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E31: Psychogenomic Testing (RePublish for Spotify)
Mar 400:46:35Tap to summarizeI bet a lot of you have heard of psychogenomic testing or at least seen one. Maybe you are a patient and you got one or are thinking about getting one. Are these things worse the time and money? Listen to this episode to learn about them and get my 2 cents on the topic!
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E30: Improving Efficacy of Medications (RePublish for Spotify)
Mar 401:10:52Tap to summarizeOn the last episode on antidepressant efficacy we discussed effect size and placebo. On today's episode I will cover a topic called psychodynamic prescribing. I'll be giving you tips on how to become a prescriber that gets max effect from medications. There's a lot of things that you can to maximize the effect, so tune in to find out what they are.
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E29: Efficacy of Antidepressants (RePublish for Spotify)
Mar 400:52:58Tap to summarizeOK, so we've learned about the antidepressants, how to pick one, and how to dose. Well, how well do they work? I'll be discussing the efficacy of antidepressants on this episode, and I will be exploring the idea of placebo as it relates to these medications. It's more than what you would like, so tune in to find out all about it!
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E78: Obesity Medicine: Lifestyle Medicine: Physical Fitness
Mar 100:52:06Tap to summarizeSo we've finally gone through the massive topic of nutrition, and today I'll just have this one episode on physical fitness. That's not because it isn't as important, but I think it's just a lot easier. With nutrition there's so much false information out there, but with physical fitness, it's basically just make sure you are moving around and not sedentary, so I will go over the research that ties physical fitness to improved mental health outcomes, I'll go over how much physical fitness you should strive for, and I'll give some tips on things you can do to get you started and how to break through the barriers that are stopping you from maintaining your fitness level, so there's a lot packed in to this one episode. Enjoy!
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Quick Take #8: February Updates!: New Ketogenic Diet Studies for Mental Health Disorders, ProlivRX for Depression, New Blood Test for Alzheimers, and MORE!!!
Feb 1800:40:58Tap to summarizeIt's been a few months since my last update episode, and I have several updates in the world of psychiatry. A couple studies of the ketogenic diet for depression and anxiety, a newly approved device for depression, a blood test for Alzheimers, ibogaine in Colorado, pregnancy risk with benzodiazepines and sleep medications like Ambien, a new study on the non-link between Tylenol and autism, and many more. I hope you enjoy these updates of real time information that has come out since November!
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E77: ADHD: Stimulants: Adverse (Side) Effects Part 2: Cardiac and Pregnancy
Feb 1100:54:48Tap to summarizeToday I will continue talking about potential adverse effects of stimulant medications. Last time I discussed several adverse effects, but today I will mostly be focusing on cardiac (heart) effects because those have gotten a lot of press, especially with a previous black box warning for this. I will also talk about use in pregnancy in this episode. Next time I will discuss substance abuse issues which will round out all of our potential adverse effects.
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E76 Obesity Medicine: How Deception Works, How I've Been Deceived, and Corrections I'm Making
Feb 400:58:35Tap to summarizeSo today I wanted to do an episode about deception in health information. How do these deceptions work and how to detect them. We don't all have the knowledge or time to go through the literature with a fine toothed comb, and even those like me that do have more knowledge and more time can still be misled, and we are often misled by well intentioned folks that think they have correctly interpreted the data and are revealing some kind of new controversial truth to us. I mean governments and businesses have an incentive to mislead us and have in the past, so it isn't surprising to think that they are doing it again. However, we can also be misled by those that are making these accusations against governments and businesses. How confusing! Today I will talk about this and I will also make some corrections of things that I have said during this series on nutrition and some of them are big ones!
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QT7: Quick Take #7: Why Is Adderall A Mixture of Salts?
Jan 2800:36:22Tap to summarizeToday I do a deep, deep dive on Adderall, aka Mixed Amphetamine Salts, and I attempt to answer my own questions, "Why are there 4 different salts in Adderall?" I mean I get that there is a mixture of levo and dextro, but why the sulfate, aspartate monohydrate, etc.? Well, for those of you that are wondering this is well, I think I have the answer. This is not stated anywhere that I could find, it is my best guess hypothesis. It's interesting because as far as I am aware, other than Xywav, there is no other medication that is a mixture of salts of the same active drug, and in the case of Xywav, the purpose is to minimize sodium intake. For Adderall, there is no sodium, so the explanation is completely different and actually pretty fascinating. Have a listen!
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