PsychiatryCourse recording2023
Harvard Psychopharmacology Master Class 2023 — two days on hard-to-treat psychiatric patients
Recorded on 28–29 April 2023, Harvard Psychopharmacology: A Master Class 2023 was the 13th edition of this course for clinicians, researchers and trainees. Faculty including Carl Salzman, Alan Schatzberg, Stephen Stahl, Matcheri Keshavan and John Torous focus on treatment-resistant illness: neurobiology and new antidepressants, schizophrenia from prodrome to relapse, bipolar depression, brain inflammation, blood levels and drug combinations, benzodiazepines, borderline personality, OCD, eating disorders, substance use, reproductive psychiatry and older adults. Supplied as videos with PDFs.
- 19sessions
- 2days
- Videos + PDFformat
- 2023course
What you’ll be able to do
- Manage treatment-resistant depression, bipolar and psychosis
- Use blood levels and combinations rationally
- Prescribe safely across the reproductive life cycle
- Adapt treatment for children and older adults
Inside the course
Lectures plus panels
Each half-day ends with a faculty panel discussing difficult cases and audience questions.
Built for
- Psychiatrists and psychiatric NPsAdvanced prescribing.
- Primary care clinicians, pharmacists and psychologistsPsychopharmacology update.
Programme
Friday 10 sessions
- Matcheri Keshavan, MD — Neurobiology for the Practicing Clinician: Understanding Brain Function and its Relevance to Drug Treatment in Psychiatry
- Alan Schatzberg, MD — Mechanisms of Action and the Development of New Antidepressants
- Karen Dineen Wagner, MD, PhD — Psychopharmacology of Childhood and Adolescent Depression
- Matcheri Keshavan, MD — Current Treatment for Schizophrenia: Prodrome First Episode, Relapse and New Treatment Possibilities
- Roscoe Brady, MD — What You Should Really Know About the Treatment of Mania and Bipolar Depression
- Roscoe Brady, MD, Matcheri Keshavan, MD, Carl Salzman, MD, Alan Schatzberg, MD, Karen Dineen Wagner, MD, PhD — Panel Discussion
- Paulo Lizano, MD — Brain Inflammation in Neuropsychiatry
- Roscoe Brady, MD — Neural Circuitry Based Treatments in Psychiatry
- Stephen Stahl, MD — Decision Making in the Treatment of Resistant Psychiatric Disorders: From Blood Levels to Dosing to Treatment Combinations
- Roscoe Brady, MD, Paulo Lizano, MD, Stephen Stahl, MD — Panel Discussion
Saturday 9 sessions
- Carl Salzman, MD — Rational Use of Benzodiazepines in Anxiety Spectrum Disorders
- Robert Stickgold, PhD, Anthony (Tony) Cunningham, PhD — Sleep in Psychiatric Disorders:
- John Torous, MD — Digital Phenotyping in Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology
- Carl Salzman, MD — Difficult to Treatment Patients: Borderline Personality Disorder, OCD, and Eating Disorders
- Carl Salzman, MD, John Torous, MD, Robert Stickgold, PhD, Anthony (Tony) Cunningham, PhD — Panel Discussion
- Kevin Hill, MD — Effective Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
- Catherine Lager, MD, Marcela Almeida, MD — The Psychopharmacology of the Reproductive Life Cycle: Premenstrual, Pregnancy, Lactation, and Menopause
- Carl Salzman, MD — Older People Are Not All the Same: Differing Approaches for Younger Old and Older Old
- Carl Salzman, MD, Catherine Lager, MD, Marcela Almeida,MD, Kevin Hill, MD — Panel Discussion
Before you buy
Do I get CME credit or a certificate?
No. Clinicapedia provides the educational content only — no CME or CE credits, MOC points or certificates of completion are included with this product.
Specifications
| Format | Videos + PDF |
|---|---|
| Recorded | 28–29 April 2023 |
| Publisher | Harvard Medical School |
| Department | Neurology |
| Delivery | Instant download · lifetime re-download |


