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  • 17 December

Psychiatric Medications and Heart Health: What Patients with Cardiac Conditions Need to Know

This guide focuses purely on the medical side of psychiatric medications and cardiac risk, so you can see how our psychiatrists across California think about […]
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  • 17 December

Geriatric Psychiatry & Medications: Safer Prescribing for Seniors with Depression, Anxiety, and Memory Loss

our psychiatrists work with seniors and their families to manage depression, anxiety, and memory loss with a sharp focus on safety: lower doses, fewer side effects, and fewer dangerous interactions with heart, blood pressure, and diabetes medications. […]
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  • 17 December

Psychiatric Medication in Pregnancy & Breastfeeding: How Our California Psychiatrists Balance Risks and Benefits

We use perinatal psychiatry medication principles and current guidelines to weigh: Risk of untreated illness vs. risk of medication exposure for your diagnosis, your history, and this pregnancy. […]
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  • 17 December

Insomnia Under a Psychiatrist’s Lens: When Sleep Medications Make Sense and When They Don’t

At Advanced Psychiatry Associates in California, we don’t start with Which pill? We start with: What’s really breaking your sleep? And then: Will prescription sleep meds actually help, or just mask a deeper problem? […]
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  • 17 December

Sleep and Psychiatry: Pharmacologic Approaches to Insomnia in Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and ADHD

This article is a psychiatry guide to insomnia treatment with medications: when we treat sleep directly, how choices change with depression, bipolar disorder, and ADHD, and what to know about the main agents, doxepin, trazodone, mirtazapine, Z-drugs, and orexin antagonists. […]
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  • 03 December

The Medical Risk-Benefit Framework for Medication in Pregnancy and Postpartum

This article walks through the risk-balancing framework, the medication data, and what patients should expect from psychiatric care during pregnancy and breastfeeding. […]
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