Curated Video
Are Antidepressants Addictive?
Antidepressants are not addictive in the way that we think of or define addiction. This video addresses the following questions: If your symptoms return after you stop an antidepressant does that mean you’re addicted? What is the...
Curated Video
Bipolar Disorder – What Does It Mean To Have a Predominant Polarity?
Did you know that about half the people with bipolar disorder, spend more time in one phase over the other and which phase that is can make a difference in how well you do? This video explains this pattern and how it can make a...
Curated Video
Bipolar Disorder - When Not To Take Antidepressants
We generally do not use antidepressants in bipolar 1 disorder, because antidepressants are more likely to cause you to switch from depression into mania thereby triggering mania. Or it can cause you to rapid cycle. That is, you can have...
Curated Video
Emotional Blunting with Antidepressants
Emotional Blunting with antidepressants. Many people who take antidepressants will say they feel flat, numb or like they can't experience normal emotions. In this video I discuss why that happens and what can help it.
Curated Video
Can Antidepressants Stop Working?
It’s estimated that 25% of people develop tolerance to their antidepressant medications. This medication tolerance issue was first noticed in the early 1980’s when we were using Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors, called MAOis. These were very...
Curated Video
Can a Depressed Person Have Good Days? - Atypical Depression
Usually we think of someone who is moderately to severely depressed as being very sad and unresponsive to things. Maybe even zombie like. But that isn’t always how it looks. But when it does look like this, we call it having melancholic...
Curated Video
ADHD And Relationship Issues – 11 Ways to Fix Them
ADHD and relationships issues: 11 tips to fix them. When you look at ADHD and marriage and ADHD and dating problems, you see that the disorder can cause many problems on both sides. Many of the problems stem from ADHD and forgetfulness,...
Curated Video
Bipolar Disorder - When we use Lithium
Lithium is the first recommended treatment for bipolar disorder, but only when you have classic bipolar disorder. Classic bipolar disorder is when you have a clean separation between depressive episodes and manic episodes. I've defined...
Curated Video
Autism Spectrum Disorder - Understanding the Sensory Crisis
In this video I define autism spectrum disorder and specifically focus on the what you can do about the sensory crisis. The way we define autism has changed over the years. It began as infantile autism in 1980 and then in 1987 it became...
Curated Video
Alternative Medicine for Anxiety
Alternative medicine for anxiety. That’s what I talk about in this video. Here are 5 drugs that are known to be used for anxiety. 1. Chamomile 2. Kava 3. L-theonine 4. Valerian 5. GABA
Curated Video
Let’s Talk About Drugs
Dr. Algae talks about the differences between good (legal) drugs and bad (illegal) drugs. He then explains the adverse effects bad drugs can have on the body and encourages your student to make a pledge not to use illegal drugs.
Curated Video
The Subtleties of Medication
UC Berkeley psychologist Stephen Hinshaw describes how the practice of taking medication for ADHD and other conditions is far more subtle and complicated than most of us appreciate.
Neuro Transmissions
The fad diet that cures epilepsy
This may surprise you, but the ketogenic diet was not originally intended to trim your waist or help you get shredded. Rather, the keto diet was created over a hundred years ago as a way to treat...epilepsy. That's right, this fad diet...
Curated Video
Deforestation
Deforestation explains how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence the environment and daily lives of people by analyzing the causes and effects of and solutions for deforestation.
Vlogbrothers
My Physicalmental Illness
In which John discusses labyrinthitis, OCD, categories, the body in thought, and the body in pain.
Vlogbrothers
The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone
In which John visits the Kissy Psychiatric Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the only dedicated mental health facility in the nation, and learns about the extraordinary changes that have taken place there in the last two years with...
Visual Learning Systems
Healthy Circulatory and Respiratory Systems: Problems of the Circulatory System
This video program explores the role of the body's circulatory and respiratory systems, emphasizing things we can do to maintain these important systems. Regular exercise, healthy eating habits, and not smoking are just a few of the...
Healthcare Triage
When Drug Costs Are High, Patients Skip Doses
The idea behind cost-sharing in healthcare costs goes something like this: If the patient is responsible for some part of the cost of their care, they'll be more judicious in their choices of treatment, and healthcare spending will...
Healthcare Triage
Trying to Control Blood Pressure Isn't Always the Right Move for the Elderly
I read a study a few weeks ago on blood pressure treatment for nursing home residents, and I almost ignored it. There are so many like it. But it's just ridiculous that this kind of stuff continues, and that we can't seem to do anything...
Neuro Transmissions
The Neuroscience of Tourette Syndrome
Oh sh**, time to find out more about Tourette Syndrome! It's often portrayed in media with lots of swearing, but that's not the whole picture. Today, we're gonna find out a little more about what goes on in the brain. We have In_s Dawson...
Curated Video
Could a cure for cancer be hiding in your medicine cabinet?
A combination of drugs, including aspirin and statins, are being tested to treat cancer and other illnesses. There is mounting clinical evidence that the "repurposing" of existing drugs could offer effective new treatments.
Healthcare Triage
Overestimation of Benefit
In previous episodes of Healthcare Triage, we've discussed how people often misunderstand risk and how it affects them. We've also talked about how you can calculate the explicit metrics of numbers needed to treat and harm. But people...
Catalyst University
Mechanisms of β1-blockers, Calcium-channel Blockers, & α-blockers
In this video, we will be exploring the mechanisms of action of several antihypertensive drugs that act in the cardiovascular system and on the heart: β-blockers, calcium-channel blocker's, and α-blockers.
Catalyst University
Pharmacology of Parkinson's Disease
In this video, we explore the basic pharmacology of Parkinon's disease.