Dr Miller is Medical Director, Brain Health, Exeter, New Hampshire; Editor in Chief, Psychiatric Times; Staff Psychiatrist, Seacoast Mental Health Center, Exeter; and Consulting Psychiatrist, Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts.
Reframing Our Relationship With Pharma
March 19th 2020It can be disheartening to hear about the pervasive culture at many medical centers and health care systems to ostracize the pharmaceutical industry, and not uncommonly, to threaten to fire employed physicians and clinicians who would like to attend educational programs about new medications on their own free time.
Major Depressive Episode: Is It Bipolar I or Unipolar Depression?
July 31st 2018Since the choice of treatments for a primary bipolar I disorder major depressive episode versus a unipolar major depressive episode are significantly different, this information will help guide clinicians in how to proceed.
Antidepressants, Part 2: Kinetics, Dynamics, Mechanisms of Action, and the Future
November 20th 2017The author explores the significant pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic heterogeneity of current antidepressants and reviews the many potential drug targets that exist-with a focus on the serotonin system.