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Dr. Sameer Jauhar discusses schizophrenia, exploring core clinical features, neuroscience, treatment approaches, and his humanistic approach. Topics include understanding symptoms, outcomes, comorbidities, genetic, and environmental factors. Emphasizes tailored treatments, patient-centered care, and positive patient relationships.

A clinical psychologist explains PTSD's impact on daily life, conditioning aspects, and evidence-based treatments. Topics include symptoms, coping mechanisms, arousal symptoms, neurobiological aspects, and psychotherapies. Comorbidities like mood and anxiety disorders are explored, with a focus on therapeutic approaches and cultural considerations in treating PTSD patients.

Dr. Walkup discusses normal vs. pathological anxiety, therapeutic alliance with anxious patients, genetic influences on anxiety, importance of early intervention in children, benefits of CBT over benzodiazepines in treatment, and recognizing anxiety in young patients.

Dr. Roger McIntyre, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, discusses the differentiation of normal 'low mood' from psychiatric conditions. The podcast covers historical subtypes of depression, DSM specifiers for major depressive disorder, epidemiology, neurophysiology, and treatment options.

Dr. Lois Choi-Kain discusses the prevalence, naturalistic course, and treatments for borderline personality disorder (BPD) and introduces the "Good Psychiatric Management" (GPM) model. The topics covered include challenges faced by BPD patients, the need for sustainable treatment approaches, the significance of listening and understanding patients, and the use of an interpersonal hypersensitivity model in treatment.

Dr. McIntyre discusses the key clinical features of bipolar disorders, including the relationship with circadian rhythm and the difference between type I and type II bipolar disorder. He also explores the pathogenesis of bipolar disorders and the first-line treatment options. The podcast emphasizes the importance of early recognition and treatment, evidence-based psychotherapies, and screening for accurate diagnosis.

Dr. Steve Delisi, Chief Medical Officer at YourPath Inc., Co-Associate Director at UC-Irvine School of Medicine's 'Train New Trainers' Primary Care - Training and Education in Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Adjunct Professor at Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies, discusses the fundamentals of substance use disorder, the neurobiology and clinical use of translational neuroscience, the relationship between trauma and substance use, best practices for building a therapeutic alliance, and future research on substance use disorders.

Dr. Mark Oldham, an expert in psychiatry, discusses delirium, its dangerousness, prevention strategies, and ties it to validated assessment tools and treatment approaches. The episode explores the nature of delirium, its classification, and the importance of inattention in diagnosis. Tools and methods for screening and assessing delirium are highlighted, as well as optimizing brain function and preventing delirium. The challenges of navigating hospitals and advocating for patients with delirium are discussed. The chapter also delves into the pharmacological management of delirium and clarifies the relationship between delirium and encephalopathy. The significance of humor and lightheartedness in psychiatry is explored.

Dr. Erick Messias, Chair of Psychiatry at Saint Louis University, discusses psychiatric epidemiology, including the derivation of epidemiological figures and the naturalistic course of psychiatric illness. He also explores the history of diagnostic systems and important findings in psychiatric epidemiology. Dr. Messias emphasizes approaching situations as a 2 by 2 table and finding meaning in daily psychiatric practice.