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The prescription of psychedelic therapies in Australia and New Zealand: A brief survey of psychiatrists - Joshua J Berger, Paul B Fitzgerald 2023
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Paul Fitzgerald is a Professor of Psychiatry specializing in brain stimulation and neuroscience applications to depression, schizophrenia & other disorders
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Amazing tour of the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) facility and supercomputer on campus at #ANU yesterday. Like a sci fi movie but with better art work!
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Our latest restatement of the clear evidence supporting the use of #rTMS in #depression is out this week in the #ANZJP
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Research by second year medical student April Thompson has found that TikTok's algorithm targets anti-vaccine content to people with an interest in politics. bit.ly/3EA0zej
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If you are an early – midcareer researcher with expertise in brain stimulation & significant emerging track record and an interest in working in the wonderful ‘bush capital’ of Australia surrounded by Kangaroos, Cockatoos (and the occasional politician) please reach out to me.
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Congratulations Dr Nathan Oates, named ACT Clinical Educator of the Year by . Nathan is an ANU medical school alum, lecturer for the Rural Clinical School in Bega, and is an Anaesthetist at South East Regional Hospital. Pictured teaching clinical skills to students.
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Psychiatrist is developing a personalised at-home treatment for depression based on transcranial alternating-current stimulation of the brain – but is his pill & therapy-focused profession ready for it? psyche.co/ideas/a-person
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A form of personalised, at-home, brain-based treatment for #depression is getting close – but is psychiatry ready for it? bit.ly/3EyXzhg
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Great article out today by Marie-Claire Davis, one of our really outstanding PhD students
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Thanks to the communities of Cooma and Bombala for welcoming our medical students. They had a wonderful time meeting the locals and learning about rural living. There is no doubt some will be back to undertake a year-long clinical placement in the region.
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We have a fantastic new opportunity for an innovative leader to join the #ANU School of #Medicine and Psychology to head up the great team in our #Rural Clinical School
seek.com.au/job/58787612?t
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More evidence - this time from an analysis of 232 clinical #antidepressant trials - of the limited effectiveness of these medications for #depression and the pressing need for alternatives such as #rTMS.
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Post doc opportunity for an ECR to join our new program in Canberra, working on exciting projects with TMS and tACS, apply as follows or reach out directly
jobs.anu.edu.au/en/job/546800/
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Our latest rebuttal to some of the ridiculous claims published in the #ANZJP about #rTMS treatment of #depression has just been published
doi.org/10.1177/000486
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Clinical Associate Professor Louise Stone is a medical educator for the ANU Doctor of Medicine and Surgery program. She is also a general practitioner. In this beautifully written piece she eloquently reveals the often untold and unknown role of a general practitioner.
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In all this talk of Medicare & diagnoses & evidence & AI it's easy to forget what MH is about.People come to us because they hurt & they need us to hear their story & help them find meaning in it. This is what it is like for me in GP. An everyday privilege bjgp.org/content/71/713
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Great to see our new #TMS book out this week, was a pleasure working with Dan and Robert on this, hope many find it useful.
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The ANU Medical School TELT team hosted the inaugural Show and TEL event titled Virtual Reality in Health Education. VR enthusiasts from around ANU came to discuss how VR can be used for medical education. Read more about using VR in teaching: bit.ly/3bhm1ZO
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Really pleased our paper is out in the #ANZJP laying out clearly the overwhelming evidence supporting the use of #rTMS therapy in #depression.
Looking forward to continuing to work on improving this treatment and making it more accessible.
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The #ANZJP have published another completely inacccurate anti-#rTMS in #depression article by its former editor. The "Five Facts about rTMS" are all misleading and unsupported (except by self-citation). A summary of the actual evidence can be found here:
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Our position for a clinical trial coordinator #CTC on an exciting new study of #psychedelicassistedtherapy in depression is closing very soon, reach out for information
jobs.anu.edu.au/en/job/545524/
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There are some great new level B, C and D positions for academic and teaching staff in psychology just open at ANU
jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/search/?
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Looking for a clinical trials coordinator to work on an exciting MRFF funded trial of psilocybin assisted psychotherapy based at ANU in our new School of Medicine and Psychology
jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/5455
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As we posted last week, this is *already* a problem. Hiring saw its first substantial hit since the initial Covid-19 downturn in Q1-20 in ’s April data. Job growth fell across the board. We’ll see how the May numbers fare…
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Looking forward to an interesting #neurotech in #Mentalhealth forum after the upcoming RANZCP congress in Sydney
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Really looking forward to getting to ANU next week to start a great new challenge. I will be looking to recruit a ECR / post doc with some experience in brain stim +/- EEG research: if you know anyone who might be interested in an exciting opportunity, get them to reach out to me
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Really pleased to see that a fully revised and updated second edition of our clincal guide to #rTMS treatment of #depression is out now. rTMS changes lives - read this to see how and why
tinyurl.com/ycnzcs34
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We are looking for psychiatrists to participate in a brief confidential (and ethics approved) survey of attitudes towards psychedelic therapies. All psychiatrists, please consider this invitation and sharing it with your psychiatry colleagues.
surveymonkey.com/r/92RLFCH
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Had the pleasure of being interviewed for this interesting podcast recently
PsychCentral: Inside the Hallucinations of Schizophrenia psychcentral.com/blog/podcast-i via
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Pleased that our article refutting the ongoing illogical and downright nutty statements against rTMS that keep getting published in the ANZJP is out now: Revisiting the effectiveness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment in depression,
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Interesting to see how inaccurately the #RANZCP college depression guidelines address #psychotherapy of #depression (lnkd.in/gRK9Cwv8). Coupled with how misleadingly the guidlelines address #rTMS (lnkd.in/gzAB6kiM), it is time for the to act and fix this!
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Pleased to share our new paper addressing challenges in the pathway to clinical translation of #psychedelictherapy, this was a great group to work with
doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.
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Interesting article - #ANZJP on #antidepressants: core take away only ~ 1/5th of patients respond if they don't show improvement early. Pity they included an out of date characterisation of #rTMS as 4th line - clearly it is highly useful much earlier tinyurl.com/sfvpe5ry
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2/3 of trial participants for continuation magnetic #seizure therapy in TRD #Bipolar depression sustained improvements in depressive symptoms without any adverse cognitive effects. bit.ly/3pv5Tc5
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Great to see the new comprehensive and really well put together German #rTMS #depression guidelines. A really nice change after some of the nonsense being repeatedly published about rTMS here in Australia
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Thank-you to on for having me on to discuss our research investigating TMS as a treatment for OCD.
More info about the study can be found here (landing.epworth.org.au/ocd) and a recording of the program here (abc.net.au/radio/melbourn) (segment at 2h44m).
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I just published Public funding of rTMS treatment in Australia: a long and winding road, to where?
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Great to see our new article on #rTMS in #depression is out in the #ANZJP. Hopefully this will dispell some of the misleading ideas propogated in the journal about what is actually overwhelming evidence for the effectiveness of #rTMS therapy.
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It's nothing short of contemptuous for politicians to ignore the #IPCCReport.
The future of public health is at stake.
#auspol
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