PsychiaLove

Hello all, It's a new academic year? I'm mostly typing this to keep the blog active, though I don't have much to say. Working on a couple of talks and considering some curriculum changes. For the residents (which should be the biggest percentage of people reading this) - remember to check the Dropbox. I'm also now at the Associate Professor level, which doesn't really change much but seems like an accomplishment. Seems like the most appropriate thing to do is post my book (though these are only the ones in my work office): https://bsky.app/profile/psychialove.com/post/3lt66cvo6ms2j I have some thoughts on the…

I wanted to start this entry a bit ago, but I dragged my feet due to not being sure how to do it - mostly because I've avoiding doing book reviews or recommendations except in specific cases -  but decided that I would be best to just do a normal post that I can update later. I also wanted to do this at the end of May for Military Appreciation Month, but by the time I got to it that was over. I've had a couple of recent incidents of trainees not being as aware of military and veteran culture,…

This entry is mostly just a placeholder / reminder to the residents that the following book is highly recommended for "Brain and Behavior" - ideally earlier in training. https://shop.lww.com/The-Neuroscience-of-Clinical-Psychiatry/p/9781975212223

I'm still trying to figure out how to use the combination of the blog, Padlet, and Bluesky - considering that this is mostly for trainees and colleagues, and that I don't have much time to do much else with it, I'm not sure what is best? The website / blog is the "anchor" but the Padlet is more casual and requires less time to post interesting things (as long as I remember to do so?) Anyway, as a placeholder in the likely case that I forget to post again before the beginning of PGY-2 lectures: (1) For trainees and some…

ANPA 2025 is over - just got home so still transitioning back to "real life," but the conference was great and Montreal was great. Good topics, great people at ANPA, and Montreal itself was great in terms of people, food, music, and general vibes. I'm posting a few things on the Padlet about some neuromodulation stuff and maybe some other things. Looking forward - hopefully will be motivated and able to work on grand rounds, also upcoming PGY-2 and then PGY-4 lectures, and otherwise working through / advocating during these weird political times.

I haven't been posting much due to distraction from some personal and professional things, as well as my lectures being delayed until May. That being said - (1) I'm excited for the annual ANPA meeting in Montreal this year (2) For trainees and colleagues - I'm adding a bunch of files to the Dropbox, and will likely expand it's overall use and range. Also do the aforementioned distraction - there's been a bunch of stuff that in retrospect I should have put on the Padlet. I'll work on that! Thank you for reading this boring update post!

I apologize for the somewhat "LinkedIn Inspirational Post" title - but I do anticipate some personal and professional issues/stress as well as positive events this year. My lecture series are both pushed back this year - not sure if that will mean I post more or less on the site. I am continuing to work on a couple of projects but I'm not 100% sure which one will become next academic year's grand rounds topic. In the meantime, I'm trying out having my talks on a separate page - may end up causing issues with my Dropbox account, but for…

Updated the website. Pros include: not looking like a professional site from the 1990s. Floating shapes? More functional? Cons: still kind of boring. Still tweaking settings.  

The agenda for the 2025 American Neuropsychiatric Association Annual Meeting is Toronto has been released: https://anpaonline.org/ Interesting change for this year is that there are two talks going on at once for Thursday / Friday.

I'm having some Wordpress woes, but this is hopefully working - a PPT of my recent talk: I typically try to have most of the information I say somewhere on the slides - always a delicate balance between a boring "reading from the slides but useful reference slides" vs. more flavorful "more minimal slides but then the slides are useless, but I feel like I'm pretty decent at it usually - but this topic had a lot more sidenotes / anecdotes during the actual presentation, so I also tried to put some of them on a notes PDF: