Insight In Psych

Why is America's healthcare system so expensive? How is the Affordable Care Act helping (or not)? Is there any way we can reduce costs and improve outcomes? Why is care so difficult to access?We've had so much fun making this podcast and bringing inspiring psychiatrists to your feed. As we're moving forward in our careers, this will be our last episode. Thank you for listening. Host: Dr. Lauren Williams, MDGuest: Dr. Patrick Runnels, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

Did you know acupuncture can help with detoxing from opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines, etc. and help decrease anxiety and cravings? Dr. Marsh informs us western docs what she's learned from the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA), reviews the research, and a lifetime as a family physician treating addictions. NADA Website: https://acudetox.com/Host: Dr. Layne Gritti, DOGuest: Dr. Sybil Marsh, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

We're told "work-life balance" is something to strive for, but can it really offer fulfillment and happiness? How does the culture of medicine contribute to dissatisfaction? Can we find balance in residency? What should we actually be striving for?Article Discussed: "The Fallacy Chasing After of Work-Life Balance" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261765525_The_Fallacy_Of_Chasing_After_Work-Life_Balance/fulltext/54913f320cf214269f27e4e4/261765525_The_Fallacy_Of_Chasing_After_Work-Life_Balance.pdf?origin=publication_detailHost: Dr. Layne Gritti, DOGuest: Dr. Jeanne Lackamp, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

When do we use ECT to treat psychiatric disorders? Is it a safe procedure? Is it better than current medications we have? Dr. Kimmel has been doing the procedure for more than 30 years and gives us insight into it.Host: Dr. Ramona Bhat, DOGuest: Dr. Susan Kimmel, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

What is physician wellness? Why are we so bad at it? Why do we need it? How can we get it?Ohio Physicians Health Program: https://www.ophp.org/One Bite Program: https://www.ophp.org/one-bite-programHost: Dr. Layne Gritti, DOGuest: Dr. Christina Delos-Reyes, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

What are characteristics of mass shooters? Can these attacks be prevented? Are they mentally ill? How can we predict these attacks and intervene? Dr. Resnick calls upon his lifetime of work as a Forensic Psychiatrist to give us answers. Specific cases discussed include Columbine, Stoneman Douglas, and Chardon.Host: Dr. Layne Gritti, DOGuest: Dr. Phillip Resnick, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

How did psychedelics go from being researched to demonized and now again considered a potential treatment for mental illness? What does the research say? Who can they help? What are the risks? What does the future of psychedelics look like?Host: Dr. Lauren Williams, MDGuest: Dr. Brian Barnett, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

Please help us improve the pod by giving us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X9535ZROriginally aired Originally aired 3-24-19Why does it seem like we have so many mass murders in the United States? Is it psychosis? Is it society? An interview with expert and living legend Dr. Resnick on his lifetime of experience interviewing mass murderers.Host: Dr. Layne Gritti, DOGuest: Dr. Phillip Resnick, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

Please help us improve the pod by giving us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X9535ZROriginally aired 5-6-19What does depression in teenagers look like? How can we identify them so we can get them treatment? How can we help prevent suicide in teenagers? LifeAct's CEO describes how they reach out to high school and middle school students to provide awareness and education thereby eliciting the help of students to identify concerning behavior early on. We're also given some pro-tips on how to talk to kids about mental health.LifeAct Website: http://lifeact.org/Crisis Text Line: 741-741FrontLine Service for Mental Health Help in Northeast Ohio: 1-216-623-6888National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Call 1-800-273-8255Host: Dr. Ramona Bhatt, DOGuests: Dr. John Hertzer, MD and Jack Binder, Executive Director & CEO of LifeActContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

Please help us improve the pod by giving us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X9535ZROriginally aired 5-13-19If technology is the future of medicine, why isn't telemedicine being more utilized in psychiatry? At the Ohio Psychiatry Physician's Advocacy Day 2019 in Columbus, OH, Dr. Resch tells us how telepsychiatry could address the opioid epidemic and give people in underserved and rural areas access to care. He also teaches us how being a good psychiatrist also involves advocating for our patients with public servants.Join the American Psychiatric Association: https://www.psychiatry.org/join-apaHost: Dr. Lauren Williams, MDGuests: Dr. William Resch, DOContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

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Part 2 of Our Season FinaleMaster storyteller and forensic psychiatrist talks about his experiences as Medical Director for the County of Summit Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services Board before and during the opioid epidemic. From identifying pill mills in Painesville, OH and an "opiate problem" before it became an epidemic to his efforts to provide evidence-based treatment. He tells us about the biological processes that drive addiction that anyone who has tried to lose weight can relate to.Website Referenced: Summit County ADM Board https://www.admboard.org/Book Referenced: "Dreamland" by Sam Quinones https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B00U19DTS0Host: Dr. Layne A. Gritti, DOGuest: Dr. Doug Smith, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.Thanks for tuning into our first season! More to come!

Part 1 of Our Season FinaleMaster storyteller and forensic psychiatrist talks about his experiences as Medical Director for the County of Summit Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services Board before and during the opioid epidemic. From identifying pill mills in Painesville, OH and an "opiate problem" before it became an epidemic to his efforts to provide evidence-based treatment. He tells us about the biological processes that drive addiction that anyone who has tried to lose weight can relate to.Website Referenced: Summit County ADM Board https://www.admboard.org/Book Referenced: "Dreamland" by Sam Quinones https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B00U19DTS0Host: Dr. Layne A. Gritti, DOGuest: Dr. Doug Smith, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

What was it like to grow up when marijuana became available? How can someone learn to be fulfilled out of treating those with addiction? How can psychologists help patients with addiction? At what point does drinking alcohol become higher risk? Dr. Duff-Boehm teaches us the importance of collaborative care and having a multi-faceted approach.Podcast Referenced: "The Tim Ferriss Show – Dr. Andrew Weil on Optimal Health, Plant Medicine, and More" https://podcastnotes.org/2018/12/08/weil/Websites Referenced: "Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)" https://www.samhsa.gov/sbirtAmerican Society of Addiction Medicine https://www.asam.org/Find Treatment SAMHSA https://www.samhsa.gov/find-treatmentAlcoholics Anonymous https://www.aa.org/Al-Anon https://al-anon.org/Host: Dr. Lauren Williams, MDGuest: Dr. Nancy Duff-Boehm, PhDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

What makes physicians go into addiction? Does addiction only apply to substances or to behaviors as well? What does being a workaholic have to do with addiction? How does the Dopamine Reward Pathway cause addiction? What about the role of genetics? Why is there hope for patients with addiction?Articles Referenced: "Couples are already blaming ‘Fortnite’ for their divorces" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/18/divorce-online-survey-couples-now-blaming-fortnite-for-divorce.html"Community now a model for how to address opioid crisis" https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/dayton-cut-overdose-deaths-half-now-model-for-addressing-addiction/siwxOxBukiAYmKPA51NbTO/"An Opioid Crisis Foretold"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/opinion/an-opioid-crisis-foretold.htmlHost: Dr. Lauren Williams, MDGuest: Dr. Gregory Boehm, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

What is the difference between CBD and THC? How do they affect psychiatric illness? What are the consequences of increased THC in cannabis products like edibles and hash oil extracts? Which users of cannabis are at risk for psychosis? How does cannabis affect cognition? If we did want to prescribe cannabis to a patient, what considerations should we think about?Article Referenced: "Risks of increasingly potent Cannabis: The joint effects of potency and frequency" https://mdedge-files-live.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/files/s3fs-public/CP01602014.PDFHost: Dr. Layne A. Gritti, DOGuests: Dr. David Hahn, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

If technology is the future of medicine, why isn't telemedicine being more utilized in psychiatry? At the Ohio Psychiatry Physician's Advocacy Day 2019 in Columbus, OH, Dr. Resch tells us how telepsychiatry could address the opioid epidemic and give people in underserved and rural areas access to care. He also teaches us how being a good psychiatrist also involves advocating for our patients with public servants.Join the American Psychiatric Association: https://www.psychiatry.org/join-apaHost: Dr. Lauren Williams, MDGuests: Dr. William Resch, DOContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

What does depression in teenagers look like? How can we identify them so we can get them treatment? How can we help prevent suicide in teenagers? LifeAct's CEO describes how they reach out to high school and middle school students to provide awareness and education thereby eliciting the help of students to identify concerning behavior early on. We're also given some pro-tips on how to talk to kids about mental health.LifeAct Website: http://lifeact.org/Crisis Text Line: 741-741FrontLine Service for Mental Health Help in Northeast Ohio: 1-216-623-6888National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Call 1-800-273-8255Host: Dr. Ramona Bhatt, DOGuests: Dr. John Hertzer, MD and Jack Binder, Executive Director & CEO of LifeActContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

Is psychosis in schizophrenia or bipolar is caused by increased dopamine synthesis? Take a deep dive into a recent JAMA article testing the dopamine hypothesis of psychosis. Additionally, how did they complete this research? What were the study's strengths and weaknesses? Dr. Jaskiw helps us break it down.Article Referenced: "A Test of the Transdiagnostic Dopamine Hypothesis of Psychosis Using Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging in Bipolar Affective Disorder and Schizophrenia." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29049482Host: Dr. Layne Gritti, DOGuest: Dr. George Jaskiw, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

Why don't we all learn about reproductive psychiatry during psychiatry residency? How do you treat someone with a pregnancy psychiatrically? How do you decide if and which medication to use? How do you do a risk-risk analysis?Article Referenced: "Reproductive Psychiatry: The Gap Between Clinical Need and Education."https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26423479MotherToBaby: https://mothertobaby.org/MGH Women's Mental Health Website: https://womensmentalhealth.org/LactMed: https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/newtoxnet/lactmed.htmHost: Dr. Layne Gritti, DOGuest: Dr. Sarah Nagle-Yang, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

Psychopaths? Antisocial Personality Disorder? What's the difference? How does the media portray them? Do these characters have something to teach us or are they just stigmatizing?Article Referenced: "Television's "crazy lady" trope: female psychopathic traits, teaching, and influence of popular culture." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24574097Host: Dr. Ramona Bhatt, DOGuest: Dr. Cathleen Cerny-Suelzer, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

Is someone with mental illness equally as punishable for capital punishment as someone without mental illness? Dr. Testa, a forensic psychiatrist, gives us insights on legislation, society, morality, and psychiatry.Host: Dr. Lauren Williams, MDGuest: Dr. Megan Testa, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.

Why does it seem like we have so many mass murders in the United States? Is it psychosis? Is it society? An interview with expert and living legend Dr. Resnick on his lifetime of experience interviewing mass murderers.Host: Dr. Layne Gritti, DOGuest: Dr. Phillip Resnick, MDContact: InsightInPsych@gmail.comIf you're a fan of the show, please leave us a five star review to help others gain more insight into psychiatry.