ADHD Undone: The Stimulant Conspiracy
Done paid clinicians by the refill, not the visit. We trace how a telehealth company built its business model around stimulant prescriptions...
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The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast
Clear, engaging, and practical updates on clinical psychiatry. Hosted by Chris Aiken, MD, and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP. Earn CME for listening at
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20 of 120 episodesADHD Undone: A Telehealth Tale
A Silicon Valley founder built a telehealth company to make ADHD treatment as easy as ordering takeout, until federal prosecutors traced 37...
Medication or Therapy? A Clinical Framework for Substance Use Disorders
Today, we’re tackling a deceptively simple question that comes up all the time in clinical practice: When should we prioritize medication, w...
CBT-I: The First-Line Treatment for Chronic Insomnia with Dr. Donn Posner (Part 2 of 2)
Dr. Donn Posner is a leading expert in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), founder and president of Sleepwell Consultants, an...
CBT-I: The First-Line Treatment for Chronic Insomnia with Dr. Donn Posner (Part 1 of 2)
Dr. Donn Posner is one of the most active educators in CBT-I. He's founder and president of Sleepwell Consultants, adjunct clinical associat...
Adult ADHD 4: Other Causes
How to separate adult ADHD from other causes of cognitive problems like bipolar disorder, sleep apnea, medication effects, brain injury, tem...
Adult ADHD 3: The Missing Page in DSM
The modern DSM began as a short list of 12 well-validated diagnoses. But the list expanded as the authors changed the goals from validity to...
Adult ADHD 2: The Late-Onset Controversy
Nine studies have tried to find out whether ADHD can start in adulthood, we dig into the data and find some answers to the controversy. CME:...
Adult ADHD 1: The Child Grows Up
DSM-5 loosened the criteria for adult ADHD, but did it get too lose? We look at what recent prosecutions of telehealth companies mean for th...
BPD Series, Episode 3: Dialectical Behavior Therapy — Balancing Acceptance and Change
Dr. Shireen Rizvi provides an overview of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.
14 Reasons Why Psychopharmacology Differs in Women, Part 4
Women clear some psychiatric medications more slowly, lose bone density at higher rates, and face greater medical consequences from alcohol...
14 Reasons Why Psychopharmacology Differs in Women, Part 3
Estrogen shapes nearly every neurotransmitter system in the brain, and when it starts to fall, psychiatric disorders often follow. This epis...
14 Reasons Why Psychopharmacology Differs in Women, Part 2
Premenstrual hormones can destabilize mood, worsen ADHD, trigger psychosis, and drive binge eating. This episode walks through the tools to...
14 Reasons Why Psychopharmacology Differs in Women, Part 1
Women and men respond to psychiatric medications differently. In this first of a four-part series, Chris Aiken and Kellie Newsome walk throu...
Psilocybin: What You Need to Know
Psilocybin is going mainstream: Trump has signed an executive order opening psychedelics to patients with severe mental illness, and one in...
EMDR in Practice: A Clinician's Guide to Trauma Reprocessing with Roger Solomon, PhD
Dr. Roger Solomon provides a comprehensive introduction to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), explaining the adaptive inf...
Why We Miss Suicide Risk in Autistic Youth
What if the patients we assume are safest from suicide are actually the ones we miss? Today we're talking about suicide risk in autistic you...
Gender Affirming Care in Exile: Origins
It's 1979, and Johns Hopkins has just shut down the first gender surgery clinic in the US. But investigations into the biological roots of g...
Gender Affirming Care: Fall of the House of Hopkins
In 1966, Johns Hopkins opened the first gender surgery clinic in the US. Thirteen years later, a single study shut it down. We examine what...
Gender Affirming Care in Exile: Targeting the Leader
The president of the US branch of WPATH built one of the largest youth gender clinics in the country, then watched it close under political...