Psychiatry and Mental Health

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD

Guest: William Hall, MD

Dr. William Hall, director of the Center for Healthy Aging at Highland Hospital in Rochester, New York, discusses with host Dr. Maurice Pickard the unprecedented increase in members of our population age 85 and older, and the role this may play in exceptional longevity. We know more today than we ever have before about disease factors that cause disability and frailty, such as depression, neuromuscular stability, cognitive status and urinary incontinence. How will these factors help to support older patients?

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Sue Ann Thomas, PhD, RN

What is the psychological impact of having an ICD? Dr. Sue Thomas, assistant dean for PhD studies and professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, shares her research as principal investigator on the PRHAT trial, in which she investigated long-term changes in anxiety and depression amongst patients post-MI. Dr. Thomas also outlines a holistic model of cardiovascular health. Susan Dolan hosts.

Host: Bruce Japsen

Guest: Maureen Corry, Ms.

New data suggests that nearly one in five women suffers postraumatic stress following labor and delivery; however, the postpartum experience of new mothers runs the gamut, oftentimes meaning little or no support. Maureen Corry, executive director of the Childbirth Connection, tells host Bruce Japsen of the Chicago Tribune about issues facing these women and their medical care providers.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD

Guest: Helen Mayberg, MD

Standard treatments for depression are effective in providing relief in most cases. However, some individuals suffer from depression that does not diminish despite adequate trials of antidepressants, psychotherapy and even electroconvulsive therapy. There is new hope for those suffering from treatment-resistant depression in the form of deep brain stimulation. Electrodes implanted in the brain that provide continuous current to a specific area of the brain has provided relief to subjects in groundbreaking new studies . Dr.Helen S. Mayberg, professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine joins host, Dr. Cathleen Margolin to discuss deep brain stimulation for depression. Dr. Mayberg's studies over the past 20 years in neural network models of mood regulation in health and disease have led to the recent development of a new intervention for treatment resistant patients using deep brain stimulation.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD

Guest: Helen Mayberg, MD

Dr. Helen Mayberg, professor of psychiatry and neurology at Emory University School of Medicine, joins host Dr. Cathleen Margolin to discuss neural network models of depression. Sharing more than two decades of work in this area, Dr. Mayberg explains how models of mood regulation have led to the development of a new intervention for treatment-resistant patients using deep brain stimulation.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Lisa Gibbs

Dr. Lisa Gibbs, associate professor in the department of family medicine at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, describes the different types of elder abuse and who is most vulnerable. She explains how physicians evaluate mental capacity and the difference between capacity and competency. She also discusses the latest research in elder abuse. Hosted by Susan Dolan.

Host: Lauren Streicher, MD

Guest: Marianne Legato, MD

Women account for 85 percent of the people in the industrialized world who have reached 100 years of age. What accounts for the longer lifespan of women? Dr. Marianne Legato, founder of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, talks with host Dr. Lauren Streicher about the significance of gender on life span. They discuss the roles that biology, lifestyle, and social factors play in longevity, and probe whether social changes in the industrialized world may be closing the gap.

Host: Lauren Streicher, MD

Guest: Coleen Kelly, MD

More than 150,000 obese American people undergo bariatric surgery annually. Many of these patients are women who will become pregnant. Dr. Colleen Kelly, a gastroenterologist at Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, joins host Dr. Lauren Streicher to discuss this growing patient population. The two discuss which surgical option is best for a woman who wants to conceive, along with nutritional guidlines, complications, and of course the health of the baby.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD

Guest: Stephen Ross, MD

Ketamine is a schedule III drug with a long history as an anesthetic. It also is a well-known club drug in the party circuit. How can it be that it has anti-addictive properties and might it be useful to treat alcoholism? Dr. Stephen Ross, director of the Division of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse at Bellevue Hospital in New York, joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to discuss the latest research into ketamine and addiction treatment.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD

Guest: Marc Galanter, MD

Medicine and spirituality have always been linked, we have struggled as a profession with how to introduce spirituality and religion into the general hospital setting. Host Dr. Leslie Lundt discusses such a program with Dr. Mark Galanter, professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, and author of Spirituality and the Healthy Mind: Science, Therapy and the Need for Personal Meaning.