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Thank you very much Dr. Patrizia Casaccia MD, PhD for taking time out of your schedule to help us better understand myelin and how pathological changes to myelin relate to the conditions we treat in psychiatry. Thank you Valentina Bonnefil, OMS III for inviting your mother to the podcast. Thank you Steven Doyle, OMS III and Gio Montesano, OMS III for participating in this podcast as well.

This podcast is incredibly interesting, but does not focus on board/shelf material. Dr. Casaccia has an amazing way of teaching medical students and you will find the time well spent, we think.

Thank you Giovanni Montesano, OMS III, for developing this podcast. Thank you Valentina Bonnefil, OMS III, and Steven Doyel, OMS III for participating.

This is a fairly high yield podcast for recognizing principles that might be tested in borderline personality disorder. The highest yield is within the first half of the podcast. We note that the biology that is discussed is still very rudimentary, but may be fascinating to many.

We apologize in advance for the multiple phone calls and pages (yes, I still have a pager) that came through during the recording.

Thank you Valentina Bonnefil, OMS III, Giovanni Montesano, OMS III, Colby Harris, PMHNP-S, RN and Steven Doyel, OMS III for participating in this podcast.

This is a fairly high yield podcast for understanding Panic Disorder. It appears that Panic Disorder is usually tested once per exam, but is not highly tested on exams so the time spent may not be as useful. We feel comfortable that this podcast will get you that question!

We note that the information about the Humors has some errors (Yellow Bile is associated with the Gall Bladder, not the liver).

Thank you Valentina Bonnefil, OMS III for developing this topic. Thank you Giovanni Montesano, OMS III and Steven Doyel, OMS III for participating in this podcast.

This is a fairly high yield podcast for many important principles tested in schizophrenia. That high yield loses some of the benefit due to the time of the podcast. 

Of note, there is a challenging component to this podcast where we attempted to tackle some aspects of EBM with Odds ratios. To be clear, Valentina is right!! The equation for Odds ratios are as follows for this topic:***

(# of people with schizophrenia and with IgG antibodies/# of people without schizophrenia and IgG antibodies) / (# people with schizophrenia without IgG antibodies/# with people without schizophrenia without IgG antibodies)

Thank you Rhett Dotson, OMS III for generating a discussion about hallucinogens. Thank you Angelo Garcia, OMS III, for joining us for the discussion.

This podcast initially was intended to discuss the treatment of PTSD with hallucinogens. The topic and reading led us a different direction. This podcast focuses on the history of hallucinogen use/studies and where research seems to be headed.

Jennifer Bleyer article in Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201705/radical-new-approach-beating-addiction

Ed: 9/24/2020 to include the link to the article above.

Thank you Angelo Garcia, OMS III for developing this topic. Thank you Rhett Dotson, OMS III and Cam Mecham, OMS IV for participating in the discussion.

This podcast describes our viewpoint on the origins and current diagnosis of Atypical Depression. This contains high yield principles that are tested regarding this topic. This podcast is overall low yield in terms of time to listen for testing yield. 

Thank you Rhett Dotson, OMS III for developing this topic. Thank you Angelo Garcia OMS III for participating.

This podcast is moderate yield for developing an understanding of principles tested regarding PTSD.

This podcast if for students preparing for their rotation at the Utah State Hospital with Dr. Roundy.

Thank you Angelo Garcia, OMS III, Rhett Dotson, OMS III and Cam Mecham, OMS IV for participating in this podcast designed to help students prepare for their rotations with me.

Thank you Cam Mecham, OMS IV for developing this topic. Thank you Angelo Garcia, OMS III and Rhett Dotson, OMS III for participating in this discussion. This topic does not address principles tested in the psychiatry shelf exam. It does tackle strategies that may help students during their third year have better experiences on their rotations.

Thank you Cam Mecham, OMS IV, for developing this topic. In terms of test preparation, this is very low yield. This presentation describes how bath salts appeared, the effect on neurotransmitters and why this may create such a variable presentation. This was a fascinating topic to develop and fits in well with the presentations Cam developed for recognizing and treating patients in the Emergency Department that arrive with intoxication syndromes.

The following articles are available freely on the internet and were found to be very helpful in understanding these compounds:

De Felice article (Remarkable description of the origin and understanding of these molecules): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3944897/pdf/nihms-547873.pdf

Simmons article (Comprehensive review of bath salts): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6197900/pdf/nihms967366.pdf 

Prosser article (An early description of bath salts): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3550219/

National Forensics Laboratory home page: https://www.nflis.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/NFLISHome.aspx