Living Legends in Psychopharmacology: From Evidence Base to Advances in Treatment

This comprehensive guide focuses on the treatment of usual psychiatric patients, with emphasis on the difficult to treat or treatment-resistant. Continuing medical education lectures will enhance your ability to choose treatments as you gain an understanding of the interface between psychiatric, neurological, and medical illness.

Legendary Faculty and Their Expertise

Our legendary faculty review new antipsychotic medications and treatment augmentation, potential new uses for mood stabilizers, the neurobiologic mechanisms of depression and the role of inflammation, the importance of a therapeutic alliance when prescribing psychotropic medications, and more.

Explore Current Evidence-Based and Emerging Treatments

With this online CME program, you’ll explore current evidence-based and emerging treatments for:

• Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
• Bipolar and treatment-resistant depression
• TMS and ECT
• Anxiety spectrum and sleep disorders
• PTSD
• Alcohol and substance abuse disorders
• Women’s mental health issues
• Child, adolescent, and geriatric psychopharmacology

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Describe lessons learned from genomic sequencing of patients with psychiatric illnesses
• Identify unsolved problems regarding the pharmacologic treatment of schizophrenia and learning more effective treatments
• Describe emerging theories and treatments of bipolar disorder, difficult-to-treat depression, bipolar depression, and anxiety disorder
• Outline the perils and possibilities of psychedelics and ketamine
• Recognize when to utilize ECT and TMS for treatment-resistant depression
• Illustrate emerging treatments for PTSD
• Review sleep disorders commonly comorbid with psychiatric illness, and appropriate use of medications and treatment
• Review the interface of medicine and psychiatry with a focus on cancer, cardiovascular disease
• Review the interface of neurology and psychiatry with an emphasis on functional neurological disease, hysteria, movement disorders, pain, OCD and others
• Summarize the use of genetic tests, serum level measurements, and drug combinations in treatment-resistant depression
• Identify the current role of pharmacotherapy in the treatment of substance use disorders including alcohol, opioids, and cannabis
• Review the role of pharmacotherapy in the treatment of psychiatric disorders throughout women’s reproductive lifespan, with a focus on the premenstrual, prenatal, postpartum, and perimenopausal periods
• Examine the latest advances and problems associated with treatment approaches in the child, adolescent, and geriatric populations

Topics and Speakers

Our esteemed speakers include:

• Daniel Weinberger, MD – Lessons Learned from the DNA of Patients with Psychiatric Disorders
• Martin Samuels, MD, DSc (hon) – Neurology and Psychiatry Interface
• Charles Nemeroff, MD, PhD – The Interface of Medical and Psychiatric Disorders Focus on Cancer and Heart Disease
• Philip Harvey, PhD – Tackling Unsolved Problems in the Pharmacological Treatment of Schizophrenia Cognitive Impairment, Negative Symptoms, and Partial Treatment Response
• Ross Baldessarini, MD, DSc (hon) – Pharmacological Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
• Stephen Stahl, MD, PhD, DSc (hon) – Anxiety Treat the Symptom or Treat the Disorder When First Line Therapies Fail
• Alan Schatzberg, MD – Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Sleep Disorders
• Ariadna Forray, MD – Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Current Treatment for Best Practices
• Elizabeth Crocco, MD – Geriatric Psychopharmacology
• Barbara Coffey, MD, MS – Psychopharmacology Across the Reproductive Lifespan From Menarche to Menopause
• Roger Weiss, MD – Pharmacotherapy of Substance Use Disorders

Date of Original Release: June 1, 2023