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Summer School Psychopharmacology 2018 in Berlin

DGPPN Summer School “Psychopharmacology” 2018 in Berlin

11. April 2018/0 Comments/in Education, Psychopharmacology /by Gerhard Gründer

On June 28 and 29, 2018, the Summer School “Psychopharmacology”, organized by the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neuroscience (DGPPN), will be held in Berlin.

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Mental Health Crisis

The Mental Health Crisis in Graduate Education

9. April 2018/0 Comments/in Anxiety, Depression, Education /by Gerhard Gründer

In the March issue of Nature Biotechnology, Teresa Evans of the University of San Antonio, Texas, and co-authors point out that there is “Evidence for a mental health crisis in graduate education”.

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antipsychotics long-term treatment

Antipsychotics for long-term treatment – when to stop? Or better not?

2. April 2018/1 Comment/in Antipsychotics, Schizophrenia /by Gerhard Gründer

A new publication in the prestigious Lancet Psychiatry seems to provide new evidence for the benefits of long-term antipsychotic maintenance treatment in schizophrenia (Hui et al., Lancet Psychiatry 2018). On closer inspection, however, the paper confuses more than it provides new insights.

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Gerhard Gründer at "Frag-den-Professor"

"Langzeittherapie mit Psychopharmaka" bei Frag-den-Professor

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28. March 2018
My presentation on "long-term treatment with psychotropic drugs" ("Langzeittherapie mit Psychopharmaka") on the web platform "Frag-den-Professor".
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Antipressants Metaanalysis

How effective are antidepressants?

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13. March 2018
Andrea Cipriani from the University of Oxford and colleagues have recently published the largest and most comprehensive meta-analysis of the efficacy of antidepressants in the Lancet. The paper is worth dealing with more intensively.
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Video on Pharmacokinetics (in German)

A lecture on polypharmacy and pharmacokinetics

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3. March 2018
A video of my lecture on "Polypharmacy and Pharmacokinetics", which I gave at the "Psychiatrie-Akademie" in Brugg, Switzerland on January 11th, 2018. This talk was given in German.
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Job Offer Central Institute of Mental Health

Join me me at the Central Institute of Mental Health

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10. February 2018
Work with me at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim and build with me the future of psychiatry.
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ACNP 2017 Palm Springs

A brief report from the 56th ACNP annual meeting

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19. December 2017
The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology held its annual meeting between December 3rd and 7th, 2017, in Palm Springs, California. Here is a brief report of some of the meeting highlights.
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Mindme Drinks

Brainfoods has launched its first products: Mindme Drinks

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19. November 2017
The company, which I founded with my sons Nikolaj and Philipp, Brainfoods GmbH, has just launched pre sales of our first three products, Mindme® Drinks.
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Thanks for a great time together!

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12. November 2017
The staff of my unit at the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics at RWTH Aachen University organized a farewell party for me.
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Robots as "Conversational Agents"

Would you talk to a machine therapist?

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1. November 2017
Miner and colleagues from Stanford University believe that machine psychotherapists based on artificial intelligence could revolutionize mental health care.
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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl on the Power of “Meaning” and the Conception of Psychiatry

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24. October 2017
Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl on the power of "meaning" man has to find in life and his conception of a rehumanized psychiatry.
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The foggy new paths of psychiatry

"The new paths of psychiatry" in WDR

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15. October 2017
The Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) on October 8th and 9th, 2017, broadcasted an interesting feature on the "new paths of psychiatry", which contains many statements I made during an interview on the future of psychopharmacology.
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How digital is man?

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7. October 2017
The former NIMH director Tom Insel believes that "digital phenotyping" moves psychiatry in a new direction.
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Hurdle

Cariprazine: the next touchstone for the German AMNOG

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1. October 2017
The interesting new antipsychotic compound cariprazine was recently approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Its launch in Germany will be a new touchstone for the German Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicinal Products (AMNOG).
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Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Neuropsychopharmacology

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26. September 2017
The new "Consensus Guidelines for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Neuropsychopharmacology: Update 2017" were just published.
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How do you treat delirium?

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24. September 2017
In patients with cancer and agitated delirium in palliative care, haloperidol + lorazepam was significantly more efficacious than haloperidol + placebo.
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"Mind and Brain Blog" becomes "Mind and Brain Institute"

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17. September 2017
My "Mind and Brain Blog" becomes "Mind and Brain Institute", where I will develop the utopia of a better world in the future.
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Spirituality for Health

Does your life have purpose?

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19. August 2017
Two recent articles in the prestigious JAMA journals highlight the importance of spirituality for medicine.
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Top 50 Neurology Blog

Mind and Brain Blog belongs to the Top 50 Blogs in Neurology

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One third of all cases of dementia is preventable

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12. August 2017
The Lancet Commission "Dementia Prevention, Intervention and Care" suggests that one third of dementia cases can be prevented through change of lifestyle.
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Nutrition: a Mega Theme for Psychiatry of the Future

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1. August 2017
A brief report from the first congress of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR), which emphasizes the importance of nutrition.
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How medical education creates its own patients

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28. May 2017
Two overviews in JAMA show that medical students and residents are suffering terrifyingly frequently from depression and depressive symptoms.
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