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AUDIO: Psychiatry’s Darwinian moment


 

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM THE NPA ANNUAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY UPDATE

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LAS VEGAS – A more-specific nomenclature of depression would help in the prescribing of better treatments or might prevent it altogether, according to Dr. Vladimir Maletic, a psychiatrist who spoke at this year’s Nevada Psychiatric Association’s annual Psychopharmacology update meeting.

But to do so requires psychiatry to find its own Darwinian moment, where the etiology of depression is made clear. In the conversation with Dr. Maletic, recorded at the meeting, hear his thoughts on the differences between existential and biological depression, how allowing patients to choose their treatment can double their response rate, and the lasting, negative effects on cognition post depression.

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