Psychiatry Advances:

Dr. Daniel Bender is the Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit at Western Psychiatric Hospital. His clinical work was recently featured in the New York Times (Reference included).

Justin Schreiber DO, MPH is a Tripple Boarded Assistant Professor of Medicine.

Nafessah Wynn is an experienced credentialed Family Peer Specialist Coordinator. Working together they treat families in the Whole Child Wellness Clinic.

This podcast explores the procedures and advantages of treating families in an integrated care setting involving both medical expertise and family peer support. This setting, comparatively unusual, is particularly relevant for training both psychiatrists and other care givers.

Tina R Goldstein PHD is the Endowed Pittsburgh Foundation Professor of Psychiatry. This Podcast focusses upon DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Treatment) for children and youth, a cognitive therapy, with special consideration of teaching skills for everyday life with patients and their families. This is an excellent example of deploying evidence- based therapy and intervention for psychiatric and psychological disorders that potentially include suicidal behavior.

Holly Swartz MD. Is Professor of Psychiatry. Following an explanation of Chronobiology (Body Rhythms) as relevant to Health, this podcast focuses on five daily rhythms likely altered in patients with bipolar disorders. Changing these rhythms fully focuses and engages patients in their own beneficial treatment. The Podcast reviews a new workbook, “The Social Rhythm Therapy” relevant for both trainees and patients.

Dr. Zachery Freyberg MD,PHD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an expert in Cellular Biology as well as being an outstanding psychiatric clinician. This podcast discusses the role of Dopamine transmission across the brain and within other organ systems of the body e.g. that of the pancreas. Weight gain is discussed as this relates to metabolic disturbance in patients taking anti-psychotic medications that affect insulin control and diabetes.

Andrea Goldschmidt PHD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry. This Podcast focusses upon the causes and treatment of excessive weight gain, loss of control of eating in youth and adolescents. The major topic of discussion relates to “binge eating “, the emotional and environmental causes of such eating disorders, such as uncontrolled urges, eating without feeling hungry, particularly after school. This is translational research. Gaps in present knowledge about these disorders are noted.

Carla Mazevsky PHD, is the Nancy J Minshew Endowed Chair in Autism Research, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and Translational Research at the University of Pittsburgh. She is an expert in key emotional aspects of Autistic people at all ages. This Podcast presents and focusses upon the challenges of overcoming/treating this unifying concept/reality among autistic people relating to “emotional dysregulation”. This is a fundamental/measurable concept and is characteristic of autistic people.

Annie Cohen PHD is Associative Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. This Podcast updates ongoing research and manifestation of Alzheimer’s Disease, its diagnosis (Amyloid, Tau deposition), biomarkers that may influence severity and early detection/diagnosis, also how social determinants of health affects early detection, e.g. access, extent of cardiovascular disease, residence, neighborhoods.