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Welcome to the Bullet Psych Curriculum Page. This curriculum is designed to be read in order. After you read the welcome post we highly encourage you to start with Day # 1 as the topics naturally build on each other.
Below you will find all of the blog posts with the most recent at the top. See the curriculum page for all of the content organized by theme and chronological order.
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Day # 41: Nutraceuticals / Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Today is our last day of our current theme of depressive disorders. Today we are going to be discussing neutraceuticals and complimentary...
Marcus Hunt
Sep 10, 20203 min read
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Day # 40: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
In our last post we discussed electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Today we will cover another interventional treatment in psychiatry called...
Marcus Hunt
Sep 9, 20204 min read
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Day # 39: Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
You've probably heard this before, but due to reader feedback this post and all future posts will be shorter (less than five minutes). We...
Marcus Hunt
Sep 8, 20203 min read
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Day # 38: Review Quiz -> Depression Part 3
Today will be our third review quiz for the depressive disorder theme. Due to reader feedback I am going to try to make all future...
Marcus Hunt
Sep 7, 20202 min read
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Day # 37: Treatment Resistant Depression
Now that we have discussed the different classes of antidepressant medications it will be helpful to take one day to discuss...
Marcus Hunt
Sep 4, 20205 min read
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Day # 36: Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOI's)
Today we will discuss the monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) which include tranylcypromine, phenelzine, selegiline, and isocarboxazid....
Marcus Hunt
Sep 3, 20204 min read
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Day # 35: Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCAs)
Today we will be discussing the heterocyclic antidepressant medications which include tricyclic and tetracyclic antidepressants. We will...
Marcus Hunt
Sep 1, 20204 min read
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Day # 34: Atypical and Novel Antidepressants
Welcome back to our current theme of depressive disorders. From a pharmacology perspective we have now covered a broad overview of...
Marcus Hunt
Aug 31, 20206 min read
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Day # 33: Serotonin Syndrome
Today we are going to continue our discussion on antidepressant medications and cover serotonin syndrome. Serotonin syndrome is a...
Marcus Hunt
Aug 29, 20204 min read
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Day # 32: Review Quiz -> Depression Part 2
Today will be our second review quiz for the depressive disorder theme. Remember now that we have switched to a M, W, F posting schedule...
Marcus Hunt
Aug 27, 20204 min read
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Day # 31: SSRI's and SNRI's
Now that we have covered a broad overview of antidepressant medications we can start discussing each drug class separately. Today we are...
Marcus Hunt
Aug 26, 20206 min read
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Day # 30: Antidepressant Medications
Today will kick off our discussion of antidepressant medications. We will discuss different classes of antidepressants, the STAR-D trial,...
Marcus Hunt
Aug 22, 20204 min read
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Day # 29: Psychotherapy for Depression
In our last lesson we covered an overview of talk therapy and its' proven effectiveness. Remember that multiple meta-analyses show...
Marcus Hunt
Aug 21, 20205 min read
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Day # 28: How to Treat Depression Without Medications
Before we get into next lessons discussion about psychotherapy I thought it would be helpful to provide an overview of the...
Marcus Hunt
Aug 20, 20203 min read
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Day # 27: Medical Workup for Depression
Welcome back to our current theme of depressive disorders. Today we will round out some additional clinical pearls to include what...
Marcus Hunt
Aug 18, 20204 min read
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Day # 26: Review Quiz -> Depression Part 1
Today will be our first review quiz for the depressive disorder theme. These quizzes will occur about once every other week. Spaced...
Marcus Hunt
Aug 17, 20203 min read
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Day # 25: Mental Status Exam in Depression
Today we will cover elements of the mental status exam that are particularly important in depressive disorders. These are important clues...
Marcus Hunt
Aug 16, 20204 min read
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Day # 24: Clinical Pearls for Depression
Welcome back to our current theme of depressive disorders. Up to this point we have covered core features of depressive disorders,...
Marcus Hunt
Aug 15, 20206 min read
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Day # 23: Depression - The "who" and the "why"
Welcome to day two of our depressive disorders theme. Today we are going to go one level deeper and overview some epidemiology and...
Marcus Hunt
Aug 11, 20204 min read
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Day # 22: Intro to Depressive Disorders
Now that we have finished our first theme (psychotic disorders) we can jump right into our next theme in the curriculum which is...
Marcus Hunt
Aug 10, 20204 min read
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