Chapter
The Importance of Anticipation in Psychiatry
08:55 - 19:00 (10:05)
The psychiatrist speaks on the challenges of understanding patients' internal emotions, particularly in the context of anxiety and depression. They discuss the role of anticipation and hope in psychiatry and how it can be utilized to improve patient care.
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Neurology deals with disorders that have measurable physical anomalies while psychiatry focuses on disorders that do not.
08:55 - 10:19 (01:24)
Summary
Neurology deals with disorders that have measurable physical anomalies while psychiatry focuses on disorders that do not. Neurology has measurable tools to diagnose and treat disorders, while psychiatry mostly relies on words and rating scales.
ChapterThe Importance of Anticipation in Psychiatry
EpisodeDr. Karl Deisseroth: Understanding & Healing the Mind
PodcastHuberman Lab
In psychiatry, verbal communication is the only method of diagnosis, making it challenging when a patient is non-verbal.
10:19 - 11:28 (01:08)
Summary
In psychiatry, verbal communication is the only method of diagnosis, making it challenging when a patient is non-verbal. Reduced speech can also be a symptom and sometimes, patients with depression might not speak at all, which makes it difficult to distinguish from other reasons.
ChapterThe Importance of Anticipation in Psychiatry
EpisodeDr. Karl Deisseroth: Understanding & Healing the Mind
PodcastHuberman Lab
Patients with comorbidities that overlap between psychiatry and neurology, such as Parkinson's disease, often have severe depression.
11:29 - 12:39 (01:10)
Summary
Patients with comorbidities that overlap between psychiatry and neurology, such as Parkinson's disease, often have severe depression. Depression is a commonly seen symptom in Parkinson's disease due to the loss of dopamine neurons in the midbrain.
ChapterThe Importance of Anticipation in Psychiatry
EpisodeDr. Karl Deisseroth: Understanding & Healing the Mind
PodcastHuberman Lab
There is a strong stigma surrounding psychiatric illness which can prevent patients from seeking treatment.
12:39 - 15:24 (02:44)
Summary
There is a strong stigma surrounding psychiatric illness which can prevent patients from seeking treatment. Efforts are being made to use external EEGs to study brain rhythms, and untreated anxiety issues can lead to depression.
ChapterThe Importance of Anticipation in Psychiatry
EpisodeDr. Karl Deisseroth: Understanding & Healing the Mind
PodcastHuberman Lab
A psychiatrist discusses the difficulty of understanding what goes on in other people's minds or even our own, especially when it comes to anticipation and hope, and how they can navigate that in their work.
15:25 - 19:00 (03:35)
Summary
A psychiatrist discusses the difficulty of understanding what goes on in other people's minds or even our own, especially when it comes to anticipation and hope, and how they can navigate that in their work.