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THROWBACK: Heart of Psychiatry (Season 2 Episode 1)

July 13, 2026

We're pulling a throwback from season two for this one, and it's the episode I will go to the mat for as one of the most clinically useful hours of psychiatry content we've ever put out. Margaret literally calculates QTc off this episode every time she's on call and her CL attending called her out for it the other day, like, "Look at her recalculating." So when she said we should bring this one back, I didn't argue. If you're a resident, an attending who consults psych in the hospital, or a...

ADHD may be more of a reward problem than an attention problem

July 06, 2026

Today we'll talk through this one study from 2010 out of the Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology, "Task-related default mode network modulation and inhibitory control in ADHD: effects of motivation and methylphenidate", that I want to walk you through, because the way it reframed ADHD for me as a resident is one of the more useful brain-flips I've had this year. References: Liddle, E.B., Hollis, C., Batty, M.J., Groom, M.J., Totman, J.J., Liotti, M., Scerif, G. and Liddle, P.F....

THROWBACK: Motivational Interviewing (Season 1 Episode 8)

June 29, 2026

We're going back to one of our oldies but besties. This is our motivational interviewing episode from season one, which Margaret and I both agree is probably the best episode we made that whole first run. And it holds up, maybe even better now that we're further along in training and have actually used a lot of these tools in real clinical work. If you're a trainee, an educator, or just someone who's ever tried to gently move a person you love toward a change they keep half-saying they want,...