The Psych Review

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The Psych Review is a podcast reviewing recent developments in Australian psychiatry. The cast is hosted by four psychiatric doctors: Alanna, Shakira, Mazz, and Dave.

We realise how hard it can be to stay on top of the latest research, so we created this cast to help our colleagues (and ourselves) keep up to date, in quick summary shows of less than 30 minutes.

Disclaimer: The Psych Review is not affiliated in any way with The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) nor either of the RANZCP journals, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (ANZJP) or Australasian Psychiatry.

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S7E2 - Novel Psychiatric Interventions

Apr 25 2024 28 mins  
In the second episode of 2024 Dave and Mazz discuss interesting novel psychiatric interventions. Dave guides us through the promising and cost-effective arts-literacy intervention Pre-Texts in the Kenyan context, and Mazz takes us on a roller-coaster ride through the twists and turns of the development of the novel antipsychotic medication Ulotaront.The references for this episode

S7E1 - Thought Suppression and Cat Related Psychosis

Mar 07 2024 32 mins  
The Psych Review is back in 2024 and the whole gang is back together - but just not for this episode. Join Shakira, Alanna, and Dave as they get stuck into two new pieces of research. Dave holds our hand through a dense paper covering potential benefits of the suppression of unwanted thoughts, and Alanna explores an unexpected link between psychosis and cats.The references for this

S6E7 - Prolactin and Ketamine

Nov 20 2023 30 mins  
In the seventh episode of this season of The Psych Review the team dig into two papers. Dave reviews recent evidence that compares ketamine and ECT in the treatment of depression, and Alanna investigates the link between prolactin elevating antipsychotics and breast cancer.The references for this episode are:Dave: Anand. A et al. Ketamine versus ECT for nonpsychotic treatment-resis

S6E6 - Classic Psychiatric Literature Special

Oct 07 2023 33 mins  
It's episode six of season six of The Psych Review and this month we take a very special trip back in time to look at some classic psychiatric papers. Alanna's is authored by Australia's very own John Cade, and describes his historic discovery of the psychiatric uses of lithium. Dave covers The Rosenham Experiment, by reviewing an incredible article that might just be a bit too goo

S6E5 - Atypical Anorexia and Australian ADHD Guidelines

Sep 10 2023 32 mins  
In episode five of season six The Psych Review hosts explore two very different topics. Alanna guides us down a very interesting (but very complicated) pathway to learn about Atypical Anorexia, and Dave looks into the methodology underpinning the recent Australian ADHD guidelines.The references for this episode are:Alanna: to be updated.Dave: May T, Birch E, Chaves K, et al. The Au

S6E4 - The Australian Child Maltreatment Study

Aug 20 2023 32 mins  
This important episode of The Psych Review shines a sobering spotlight on the recent Australian Child Maltreatment Study. The team looks at the study as a whole including the reasons as to why study was created, as well as the individual papers that have used the study data to investigate more specific associations. This episode contains some very concerning statistics related to c

S6E3 - Eco-Anxiety and the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act

Jun 28 2023 30 mins  
It's the third episode of season six and The Psych Review is thinking about the future. Dave is looking ahead as he talks about climate change and it's potential impacts on mental health, and Mazz is focussing on an impending deadline as he walks us through the new Mental Health and Wellbeing Act that is due to become active later this year.The references for this episode are:Dave:

S6E2 - 2023 RANZCP Congress Special

May 31 2023 30 mins  
The Psych Review has recorded this very special episode at the 2023 RANZCP Congress on Whadjuk country in Perth, Western Australia. Dave and Mazz hide in a vacant seminar room to discuss their impressions of the congress, and Mazz takes us through some important learnings from a workshop on Good Psychiatric Management of borderline personality disorder.The workshop covered in this

S6E1 - Genetics of Depression and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy

Apr 27 2023 29 mins  
The Psych Review is back in force in 2023, with the entire cast returning for what is shaping up to be an epic season six. In the first episode of this season Dave digs into the largest ever depression focussed genome wide association study and discovers some new significant genetic loci for depression, and Alanna talks us through the recent Therapeutic Goods Administration approva

S5E3 - Forensic Polypharmacy and Functional Neurological Biomarkers in Children

Jan 09 2023 30 mins  
It's episode 3 of season 5! We're finishing off the season with a discussion about polypharmacy in the forensic setting and biomarkers for FND in children. The references for this episode are: Farrell, C., & Brink, J. (2020). The Prevalence and Factors Associated With Antipsychotic Polypharmacy in a Forensic Psychiatric Sample. Frontiers in psychiatry, 11, 263. https://doi.org/