by Nassir Ghaemi | Aug 17, 2022 | Blog posts
One of my former residents, who I supervised regularly, recently graduated & now is an attending physician herself. Now no longer the student, but the teacher, she asked me to advise her on my approach to teaching and mentoring. Here’s what I wrote to her: My...
by Nassir Ghaemi | Mar 23, 2022 | Blog posts
Here is a reading list that I’ve prepared for advanced psychiatric residents who have done rotations with me. I would recommend it for those interested in psychiatry either during medical school or during psychiatry residency or in the first 5-10 years after...
by Nassir Ghaemi | Mar 13, 2022 | Blog posts
Some time ago, on a prior blog, I began transcribing some of my residency notes from my years at McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in 1991-1994. A transfer of websites led to loss of the original blog posts, but here I will begin to rewrite parts of...
by Nassir Ghaemi | Feb 2, 2022 | Blog posts
Summary of the canon of psychopharmacology So what does the canon of psychopharmacology teach us? An important lesson is that even though the studies were conducted outside the realm of the pharmaceutical industry, by academic centers and with government funding, in...
by Nassir Ghaemi | Feb 2, 2022 | Blog posts
The conventional wisdom: STEP-BD for bipolar depression CATIE was the largest (about 1500 patients) and most ambitious of the three canons of psychopharmacology; it failed to show that most patients even stay on their medications for a year in schizophrenia. STAR*D...
by Nassir Ghaemi | Jan 21, 2022 | Blog posts
The conventional wisdom: STAR*D for depression The second large canon of psychopharmacology is the STAR*D study, a large sequential large randomized clinical trial (RCT) of over 1000 patients with an acute depressive episode of so-called major depressive disorder...
