Psychiatry Advances

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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder 23.10.2025 31min

  Jessica Gannon MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry.This Podcast describes this mental disorder, updating its definitional descriptive characteristics, noting variation, advances in treatment, e.g. long- lasting drug maintenance, reduction of unneeded components of drug RX, early intervention, team RX and the introduction of genuinely new treatments with a different mechanism of action than the traditional approach to Rx of psychosis by anti-dopamine agents. EG. Cobenfy.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Dopamine In and Out Of The Brain | Zachery Freyberg MD,PHD 14.08.2024 39min

  Dr. Zachery Freyberg MD,PHD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an expert in Cellular Biology as well as being an outstanding psychiatric clinician. This podcast discusses the role of Dopamine transmission across the brain and within other organ systems of the body e.g. that of the pancreas. Weight gain is discussed as this relates to metabolic disturbance in patients taking anti-psychotic medications that affect insulin control and diabetes.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | ADHD: Diagnosis/Treatment Course/Adult Presentations 01.07.2024 21min

  Brooke S. G. Molina, PhD, is a professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Pediatrics at University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. She directs clinical research at the ADHD Across the Lifespan Program. This long-time longitudinal clinical research involves youth/adolescents and adult patients. This episode presents information on lifetime course prediction, drug misuse, and primary care-based strategies for the management of ADHD.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | The Challenges of working with Adolescents in the In-Patient Setting 14.02.2025 50min

  Dr. Daniel Bender is the Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit at Western Psychiatric Hospital. His clinical work was recently featured in the New York Times (Reference included).
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in Children and Adolescents 19.06.2024 37min

  Boris Birmaher MD. is Endowed Chair- Early Onset Bipolar Disease/Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. This Podcast addresses two research questions: 1) Who among Children and Adolescents are at Risk to develop Bipolar Spectrum Disorder: 2) among patients who develop this disorder who is at risk for recurrence? This is a controlled prospective twenty year duration research study of children at higher risk because at least one of their parents has this disorder.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Medical Marijuana 01.07.2024 28min

  Antoine Douaihy, MD, is professor of Psychiatry and Medicine and senior academic director of Addiction Medical Services at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Medical marijuana is now approved for distribution in Pennsylvania, but it’s absent of controlled clinical trials. Marijuana use requires careful monitoring, including marijuana growing, physician recommendations, and distribution. This episode explores controversies about today’s prescription of medical marijuana.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Transcranial Focused Ultrasound | Fabio Ferrarelli, MD, PhD and Marta Pecina, MD, PhD 10.12.2025 39min
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | The Whole Child Wellness Clinic: Integrating Physical, Behavioral and Family Support into One Clinic 05.02.2025 40min

  Justin Schreiber DO, MPH is a Tripple Boarded Assistant Professor of Medicine. Nafessah Wynn is an experienced credentialed Family Peer Specialist Coordinator. Working together they treat families in the Whole Child Wellness Clinic. This podcast explores the procedures and advantages of treating families in an integrated care setting involving both medical expertise and family peer support. This setting, comparatively unusual, is particularly relevant for training both psychiatrists and other care givers.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Clarifying Subtypes of Depression: From Neural Circuits to Behavior 06.02.2024 33min

  Neil P. Jones Ph.D. is an expert on the spectrum of Depressions, including their diverse manifestations and impact on cognitive-behavioral processes, for example accompanying rumination, stress-related anxiety, and anhedonia. This podcast focuses on subtypes of depression relating to brain pathways.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Psycho-Oncology Center for Counseling and Cancer Support 06.02.2024 38min

  A cancer diagnosis and treatment can be difficult on both patients and their families emotionally. But support is available for people who need it. In this podcast, Robin Valpey, MD, medical director, Center for Counseling and Support, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, and Elizabeth Hale, MD, clinical assistant professor, Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, discuss the mental health care available for cancer patients and their loved ones from the beginning of treatment onward. They also discuss the role of psychiatrists in the comprehensive cancer care that UPMC provides.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | The Placebo Effect 01.07.2024 28min

  Marta Pecina MD PhD. is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Translational Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Lab of the Department of Psychiatry and the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. This Podcast focuses on the Neurobiological basis of placebo effects. Placebos have great power. We explain how both expectation and conditioning generate strong placebo effects relevant to research and their therapeutic use. Ethical issues about placebo use are furthermore addressed.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Restoring the Brain to its Previous Neurophysiology | Greg Siegel, PhD and Kym Young, PhD | 05.08.2025 33min
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Mental Health and Suicide in Autistic Teens and Adults 25.07.2024 37min

  Carla Mazevsky PHD, is the Nancy J Minshew Endowed Chair in Autism Research, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and Translational Research at the University of Pittsburgh. She is an expert in key emotional aspects of Autistic people at all ages. This Podcast presents and focusses upon the challenges of overcoming/treating this unifying concept/reality among autistic people relating to “emotional dysregulation”. This is a fundamental/measurable concept and is characteristic of autistic people.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Sleep Disturbances in Schizophrenia and Psychosis 19.06.2024 39min

  Fabio Ferrarelli MD PHD, Director of the Sleep and Schizophrenia Program is Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focusses on how sleep spindles and slow waves differ among patients with chronic schizophrenia and/or acute psychosis relative to healthy individuals. These sleep-specific oscillatory activities may represent potential biomarkers and/or endophenotypes for schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. NOTE: This video has trouble loading on site
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Severe Anxiety in Older Adults and its Effects on Brain and Body Aging 17.07.2024 37min

  Carmen Andreescu is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. This podcast focusses on severe worry and anxiety in aged persons. Not all worry in aged persons is pathological. Severe worry includes dramatic effects on patient’s psychology, brain, and aging. These are characterized here as well as appropriate intervention/treatment noted. The value of Transcranial Stimulation(TMS) is noted.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Psychosocial Treatment for youth with Bi-Polar Spectrum disorders and their Families 17.12.2024 41min

  Tina R Goldstein PHD is the Endowed Pittsburgh Foundation Professor of Psychiatry. This Podcast focusses upon DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Treatment) for children and youth, a cognitive therapy, with special consideration of teaching skills for everyday life with patients and their families. This is an excellent example of deploying evidence- based therapy and intervention for psychiatric and psychological disorders that potentially include suicidal behavior.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Treating Behavioral Manifestations Of Neurological Illness 06.02.2024 44min

  This Podcast describes integrated care at UPMC/PITT between the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology. Psychiatric manifestations/treatment of Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Epilepsy, and Migraine are discussed with Morgan Faeder MD, PHD. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Medical Director of Neuropsychiatry and Director of the Consultation- Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship, and Alex Israel MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychiatrist /UPMC Epilepsy and Headache Centers.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | The Etiology and Treatment of Weight Related Disorders in Youth 25.07.2024 31min

  Andrea Goldschmidt PHD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry. This Podcast focusses upon the causes and treatment of excessive weight gain, loss of control of eating in youth and adolescents. The major topic of discussion relates to “binge eating “, the emotional and environmental causes of such eating disorders, such as uncontrolled urges, eating without feeling hungry, particularly after school. This is translational research. Gaps in present knowledge about these disorders are noted.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Body Clocks and Bipolar Disorder: A Novel Treatment Approach 13.11.2024 38min

  Holly Swartz MD. Is Professor of Psychiatry. Following an explanation of Chronobiology (Body Rhythms) as relevant to Health, this podcast focuses on five daily rhythms likely altered in patients with bipolar disorders. Changing these rhythms fully focuses and engages patients in their own beneficial treatment. The Podcast reviews a new workbook, “The Social Rhythm Therapy” relevant for both trainees and patients.
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  Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Mindfulness, Mood Lability, and The Brain in Youth at Risk: Neural and Behavioral Mechanisms 06.02.2024 33min

  Dr. Danella Hafeman MD, PHD is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Principal Investigator of a NIMH Sponsored Clinical Trial titled “Neurobehavior Targets of Mindfulness in Youth at Risk for Mood-Disorders.” This podcast focuses on research methodology, manifestations, instruction and mindfulness interventions to reduce stress and mood lability among at risk middle school youth, thereby affecting key brain connectivity related to potential Bi-Polar outcomes among youth at risk.