Hosted by Editor in Chief Lorenzo Norris, MD, Psychcast features mental health care professionals discussing the issues that most affect psychiatry.
Feb 5, 2020
George T. Grossberg, MD, conducts a Masterclass on treating mood disorders in geriatric patients from the CP/AACP Psychiatry Update 2019 meeting in Las Vegas. The meeting was sponsored by Global Academy for Medical Education and Current Psychiatry.
Dr. Grossberg is the Samuel W. Fordyce professor and director of geriatric psychiatry at St. Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Later, Renee Kohanski, MD, discusses the first thing psychiatrists can do for patients.
Take-home points from Dr. Grossberg:
References
Birer RB et al. Depression in later life: A diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Am Fam Physician. 2004 May 15;69(10):2375-82.
Sjoberg L et al. Prevalence of depression: Comparisons of different depression definitions in population-based samples of older adults. J Affect Disord. 2017 Oct 15;221:123-31.
Grossberg GT et al. Rapid depression assessment in geriatric patients. Clin Geriatr Med. 2017 Aug;33(3):383-91.
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