In the April edition of The Psych Review, the registrars review recent developments in Australian Psychiatry.This month we delve into how being aware of adverse childhood experiences may help to manage and prevent mental health disorders, how using different language could overhaul the way we use safety plans, whether or not community treatment orders are helpful, and finally we touch on recent media attention regarding electro-convulsive therapy.If you enjoyed the cast we would love you to subscribe, rate, and/or review us on iTunes. The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a new telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery.

S1E4 - Coping Planning, Early Trauma, and Community Orders

The Psych Review is a podcast reviewing recent developments in Australian psychiatry. The cast is hosted by four psychiatric doctors: Alanna, Shakira, Mazz, and Dave.We realise how hard it can be to stay on top of the latest research, so we created this cast to help our colleagues (and ourselves) keep up to date, in quick summary shows of less than 30 minutes.Disclaimer: The Psych Review is not affiliated in any way with The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) nor either of the RANZCP journals, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (ANZJP) or Australasian Psychiatry.

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In the second episode of 2024 Dave and Mazz discuss interesting novel psychiatric interventions. Dave guides us through the promising and cost-effective arts-literacy intervention Pre-Texts in the Kenyan context, and Mazz takes us on a roller-coaster ride through the twists and turns of the development of the novel antipsychotic medication Ulotaront.The references for this episode are:Dave: Osborn TL, Ndetei DM, Sacco PL, Mutiso V, Sommer D. An arts-literacy intervention for adolescent depression and anxiety symptoms: outcomes of a randomised controlled trial of Pre-Texts with Kenyan adolescents. EClinicalMedicine. 2023 Nov 15;66:102288. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102288. PMID: 38192586; PMCID: PMC10772152.Mazz: Norman, TR, Olver JS. A challenge to the dopamine orthodoxy in schizophrenia? Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2023, 57(9), 1198-1199. doi: 10.1177/00048674231177958.The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

S7E2 - Novel Psychiatric Interventions

The Psych Review is back in 2024 and the whole gang is back together - but just not for this episode. Join Shakira, Alanna, and Dave as they get stuck into two new pieces of research. Dave holds our hand through a dense paper covering potential benefits of the suppression of unwanted thoughts, and Alanna explores an unexpected link between psychosis and cats.The references for this episode are:Dave: Mamat Z, Anderson MC. Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts. Sci Adv. 2023 Sep 22;9(38):eadh5292. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh5292. Epub 2023 Sep 20. PMID: 37729415; PMCID: PMC10511195.Alanna: McGrath, J. J., Lim, C. C. W., & Saha, S. (2023). Cat Ownership and Schizophrenia-Related Disorders and Psychotic-Like Experiences: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Schizophrenia bulletin, sbad168. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbad168.The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

S7E1 - Thought Suppression and Cat Related Psychosis

In the seventh episode of this season of The Psych Review the team dig into two papers. Dave reviews recent evidence that compares ketamine and ECT in the treatment of depression, and Alanna investigates the link between prolactin elevating antipsychotics and breast cancer.The references for this episode are:Dave: Anand. A et al. Ketamine versus ECT for nonpsychotic treatment-resistant major depression. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2023 June; 388(25):2315:2324.Alanna: Hope JD, Keks NA, Copolov DL. Association between long-term use of prolactin-elevating antipsychotics in women and the risk of breast cancer: What are the clinical implications? Australas Psychiatry. 2023 Apr;31(2):205-208. doi: 10.1177/10398562231158925. Epub 2023 Mar 17. PMID: 36927059; PMCID: PMC10088343.The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

S6E7 - Prolactin and Ketamine

It's episode six of season six of The Psych Review and this month we take a very special trip back in time to look at some classic psychiatric papers. Alanna's is authored by Australia's very own John Cade, and describes his historic discovery of the psychiatric uses of lithium. Dave covers The Rosenham Experiment, by reviewing an incredible article that might just be a bit too good to be true.The references for this episode are:Alanna: CADE J. F. (1949). Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement. The Medical journal of Australia, 2(10), 349–352. https://doi.org/10.1080/j.1440-1614.1999.06241.xDave: Rosenhan, D. L. (1973). On being sane in insane places. Science, 179(4070), 250-258The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

S6E6 - Classic Psychiatric Literature Special

In episode five of season six The Psych Review hosts explore two very different topics. Alanna guides us down a very interesting (but very complicated) pathway to learn about Atypical Anorexia, and Dave looks into the methodology underpinning the recent Australian ADHD guidelines.The references for this episode are:Alanna: to be updated.Dave: May T, Birch E, Chaves K, et al. The Australian evidence-based clinical practice guideline for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2023;57(8):1101-1116. doi:10.1177/00048674231166329.The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

S1E4 - Coping Planning, Early Trauma, and Community Orders

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