Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Psychiatric Terminology: Cross-Titration
In an idyllic world, a patient who requires psychiatric medications would only need one medication and it would be very easy to determine...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Mar 8, 20222 min read
Psychiatric Terminology: Prosody
When reviewing a person's history and their symptoms, a psychiatrist not only listens to the words a person is saying as they tell their...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Feb 15, 20223 min read
Innovations in Psychiatry: Fluoxetine
Psychiatry as a field is still attempting to determine why some people develop depression and others don't. However, for over 50 years,...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Feb 14, 20222 min read
Psychiatric Terminology: Euthymia
Euthymia is a frequently used term in psychiatry that, in my experience, is just not used in everyday conversation. As a result, when it...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Feb 11, 20222 min read
Innovations in Psychiatry: Clozapine
Clozapine is an antipsychotic medication that was first synthesized in 1956, but didn't reach clinical recognition for its ability to...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Feb 10, 20222 min read
Psychiatric Terminology: Mood
In US culture, it's very common to greet a person by asking, "Hey! How are you?" The goal is not so much to stop and begin an intensive...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Feb 3, 20223 min read
Innovations in Psychiatry: Chlorpromazine
Patients with long-standing mental illness have been around for far longer than the medical specialty of psychiatry. I'd feel...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Jan 31, 20221 min read
New Series: Innovations in Psychiatry
So far on the blog we've covered introductions to psychotherapy, psychiatric clinics, emergency psychiatry, psychiatric hospitalization,...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Jan 28, 20221 min read
Outpatient Child Psychiatry: Age versus Developmentally Appropriate
Psychiatrists can learn an incredible amount about a child's history, average day, and past treatments by engaging in imaginative play...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Jan 21, 20222 min read
Outpatient Child Psychiatry: Structured Informative Play
Caregivers will often ask why a physician completing an assessment will often seem to stop the formal evaluation and begin what looks...
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