Psychiatry: Depression: DBS and ECT (Audio-Digest Foundation Psychiatry Continuing Medical Education (CME). Book 38)

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Psychiatry is specifically designed to provide the participant with useful and up-to-date information on accurate diagnosis and appropriate management in all types of psychiatric disorders, including, but not limited to:

Anxiety disorders
Dementia, delirium, amnesia, and other cognitive disorders
Geriatric psychiatry
Mental disorders in childhood and adolescence
Mood disorders
Multiaxial illnesses
Personality disorders
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Sexual disorders and paraphilias
Sleep disorders
Substance-related disorders

The goal of this program is to provide updated information about the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the treatment of depression. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Recognize that many people with depression do not respond to medication or psychotherapy.

2: Describe the most recent advances in DBS for treating depression.

3: Refer patients with depression for inclusion in studies of DBS.

4: Discuss the indications and contraindications for ECT.

5: Help patients decide whether to try ECT as treatment for their depression.