The Frontier Psychiatrists

Thank you to everyone who tuned into our live video! Join Jeremy the therapist and I for our next live video in the app. As a brief aside, I have found that social media, when actually used to be Social, used to be a wonderful tool. I met Jeremy on Clubhouse, and we've never actually gotten to spend time together in person. I do think the synchronous communication allowed by Clubhouse, and by Subs...

Hi. I haven’t done a podcast in too long, so here is one! I’m introducing Brain Medicine. I’ve written about its ascendancy in the news this week. For those who’d like to read something today, I suggest t his article about understanding Narcissistic Personality Disorder , in Prevention magazine, also published this week. For those about to listen to a quick podcast to start out their run, I offer...

One of the things I like about being on the Internet is that I get to meet the actual humans! There are people I've had real relationships with over many years, and some of them I've just never gotten to see in person yet. Making content on the Internet helps connect you to other people making content on the Internet, and if you're good at making friends, sometimes you can make a new friend. One s...

Schizophrenia is a really challenging illness. There's been a lot of progress made recently, I will note. I've already written about novel treatments like Cobenfy , and using accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation for negative symptoms and positive symptoms in schizophrenia . One of the most bothersome of those “positive symptoms”—things that shouldn't be there, in someone's mind, but are—a...

I wrote an article about this research before, available here. However, I also made a podcast for my audience about the topic! Antisocial Personality Disorder is usually considered untreatable. A new study from the Anna Freud Centre’s MBT program demonstrates a remarkably effective treatment. At Radial , this is the modality of therapy we specialize in providing . It is also effective in borderlin...

This is the podcast version of yesterday’s article. Yes, I Know It Has A Different Title. Thanks for listening. And if you are looking for care for yourself or a loved one…join us at Radial —where I work—we focus on next-generation treatments. They include Spravato , Nightware, eTNS, PRISM Neurofeedback, soon, eCOT-AS by Neurolief, TMS , Accelerated TMS, and fMRI-guided SAINT TMS. Radial offers th...

I was invited, thanks to the magnificent and only-ever-positive internet , to give a lecture to colleagues in Nigeria. I’m kidding, a little—the internet can be rough. Ask a comment section of a YouTube video! However, it is also a technology that has brought the world closer together. One of those less absurd corners of the internet is LinkedIn —it’s like the world’s most boring dad and his boss...

One of my great joys as a psychiatrist is the ability to collaborate with excellent colleagues. Irfan Handoo, M.D., of Kansas City Psychiatric Partners , is one such human. In this interview, we learn about how Dr. Handoo went from psychopharmacologist to interventional psychiatrist, why Kansas City is the best city in the world, and why being South Asian is the ultimate hack to get your patients...

Every once in a while, science authors will crank out a paper that answers some questions, but asks so many more. I’ve been talking, writing, and podcasting about physician suicide longer than most other topics in my creative life. I did a whole award-winning series as a Rudin Master Scholar in Ethics and Humanities, which no one noticed. Including podcasts like these: and this… and this… Today’s...

Author’s Note: This writing was adapted from a series of conversations around race in America and edited as audio, recorded in 2020, right after George Floyd was lynched.. The podcast of this writing is the real thing, as it were.  What follows is edited text to clarify the narrators, absent the audio.  Please consider following the podcast associated with this newsletter and leaving a 5-star revi...

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Oh my. The irony is thick with this one. Your author, and sometimes scientist, Owen Scott Muir, M.D. has been doing research on Tardive Dyskinesia. And…he might have the disorder. The search function lets you search for other articles on the topic. If you are interested in treatments for psychiatric disorders that don't cause this adverse effect—a permanent movement disorder—they exist. The care w...

The frontier Psychiatrists breaks down a publication on the topic of immune modulation of TMS response in depression. And Dr. Owen Muir explains what inflammation is for mental health conditions in the process. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com/subscribe

I’ve been obsessed with the Peloponnesian War as a historical event for 20 years now. I wrote an article about it recently , and also recorded a song about it many years back. Enjoy the listen! If you like the music, there is more of it on Spotify… The Frontier Psychiatrists is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Th...

This podcast was edited on a plane ride to Japan, and the intro was recorded in a bathroom while my kids slept off the jet lag. It’s still good. I recently went down with Ben Greenzweig, the Executive Director of the non-profit Living Water Brain Treatment Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. We are—right now—providing TMS treatment and, soon to be more, in a local community in Ben’s beloved ho...

My readers and listeners know that this project, The Frontier Psychiatrists, is daily . Sometimes, I don't get the thing done till the end of the day. Today is one of those days. I was running on empty when it came to narrative this morning, so I decided to try to make a podcast. One of the tricky things about these more experimental days is that I don't know if the story is going to work. It's li...

Today, The Frontier Psychatrists welcomes back my friend Ben Spielberg. He's been a reader for a long time and has contributed to the newsletter in the past. It was on Clinical Trial design, a perennial favorite around these parts. With only light edits, what follows is his work, narrated by me, for the Audio Version. I would invite you to the live class today on working as an out-of-network provi...

The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily-enough health-themed publication. But sometimes, I just want to make a podcast. Today is one such day. Enjoy! The Frontier Psychiatrists is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus e...

Today is a day of mourning. In broad daylight, in the city I love, Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare’s insurance subsidiary, was murdered. According to CNN: Brian Thompson was walking toward the New York Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, dressed in a suit and tie, to attend UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor conference being held in the ballroom. A gunman, who investigators tell CNN was...

Synopsis: Bobby, alone on the side of the road driving back to Manhattan after loading a bear carcass into his Cybertruck, reveals his intention to play the villain. He then pretends to console Donald, the first victim of this villainy. After Donald is led off toward the White House, Bobby greets Elon, who tells him that someone is very ill from an infectious disease. Bobby, once again alone onsta...

The path from xanomeline to the brand name treatment named Cobenfy was a long one. Cobenfy is FDA-approved for the treatment of Schizophrenia. Here is the literal label : COBENFY is a combination of xanomeline, a muscarinic agonist, and trospium chloride, a muscarinic antagonist, indicated for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults. To people who haven't yet read my book Inessential Pharmacology...

I was at AACAP and sat down with Dr. Sood, a colleague, and we had a chat about investing, goal setting, venture scaleable businesses, and private equity, and we had some fun at the expense of Red Lobster in the process. I hope my colleagues enjoy the listen! Prior articles on the topic include What If We Didn’t Blow The Horn , Private Equity Sucks at Running Business of Medicine , and more. Thank...

This Podcast is a recording of departmental grand rounds presented at the Medical University of South Alabama pre-pandemic on burnout. It references a long legal back and forth I’d put up with. That has led to, last year, our legal team filing a defamation lawsuit and, this week, a request for an injunction . It’s more burnout than when I did the talk. I hope it’s still a source of sassy wisdom ab...

The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily health-themed newsletter. My dear friend Courtny — who recently penned an awesome guest post — reminded me that Fall is here. And with it, seasonal changes in mood for those with Bipolar Disorder. I’ve written about having bipolar disorder before, in a letter to that disorder. I’ve written about how important sleep is to not die. I’ve even written about this s...

This newsletter is quite the multi-media shop. It gave me a new tool here on Substack, and I’ll use it less-than-polishedly. I wrote a column earlier this week on infidelity , which seemed to strike a chord. This video experiment was created in response to reader feedback on that piece of writing. It’s a new format for me and far from perfect. Let me know if you dig it anyway. Remember— I’ve got m...