The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast

Recent Episodes

Lithium and Cognition: The Largest Study to Date [60 Sec Psych]

Posted August 12, 2020 • 00:02:49

This study is the largest longitudinal study of cognition in lithium to date. Katherine Burdick and colleagues started with 262 patients with bipolar...

What Works for Treatment Resistant Anxiety?

Posted August 10, 2020 • 00:26:02

Silexan, an extract from Lavender with pharmaceutical properties, is one of only two treatments with a large effect size in generalized anxiety disorder....

Topiramate and Adderall Reduce Cocaine Use [60 Sec Psych]

Posted August 8, 2020 • 00:02:16

We always say that single positive studies need replication, and here comes one. In 2012 a randomized trial found that the combination of topiramate...

Borderline Personality Disorder: Listen with Care [60 Sec Psych]

Posted August 5, 2020 • 00:02:27

Dialectical Behavior Therapy ─ DBT ─ has become the gold standard for borderline personality disorder, and other therapies are starting to go...

The Best SSRI Part 2

Posted August 3, 2020 • 00:19:13

Are the SSRIs really that different? If a patient doesn't respond to one will they respond to another? We sift through three decades of research to...