Word: psychopharmacologist
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...someone has a genuine past history of suicidal thoughts and is started on an anti-depressant and then a second anti-depressant is added, having appointments several weeks apart with no scheduled interim contact and no review apparently by a psychopharmacologist, this sounds like substandard care,” Fogel said...
...Almost no one could disagree that a psychopharmacologist should have been overseeing all of this,” Bear said...
...took awhile for Lawless to find the right practitioner. She lucked upon psychopharmacologist Winthrop Burr. “I credit him with saving my life,” she says. “He never quit...
...psychoanalyst can easily run you $125, if not twice that amount. Few insurance companies will pay for a treatment that costs $30,000 a year and has hardly any clinical outcome studies to back it up. Insurers would rather pay for a cognitive therapist--or for that matter, a psychopharmacologist, especially since the introduction of Prozac in 1987. Prozac and the other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are widely used to treat disorders like depression and anxiety, which were once the bread and butter of psychoanalysis. Of the 14 million patients treated for depression in the U.S. every year, around...
Biochemically, hypericum has some interesting properties. For starters, says University of Frankfurt psychopharmacologist Walter Muller, it appears to affect the brain in the same way Prozac does--by prolonging the activity of the mood-enhancing brain chemical serotonin. This is the same neurotransmitter acted on by the controversial diet pills fen-phen and Redux (see following story). But hypericum has much broader activity. In rats and mice, at least, it extends the action of at least two other powerful brain chemicals that are thought to play a role in depression: dopamine and norepinephrine. In each case, hypericum appears to work...