The Psych Review

The Psych Review is back with the first episode of 2026 and the first episode of Season 9! The crew is lead by Greg through a deep dive into potential side effects that can occur in relation to stimulant use. We discuss changes in ADHD assessment and management over the years, and potential consequences related to the increasing use of stimulant medications (including psychosis).The reference for this episode is:Greg: Salazar de Pablo, Gonzalo et al. Occurence of Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder in Individuals with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment with Stimulants - a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JAMA Psychiatry. 2025 ;82(11):1103-1112.The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

The Psych Review team are proud to introduce our second new host of 2025 in this episode - Milla! Milla has joined the cast in time for a very important exploration of involuntary psychiatric treatment. Alanna begins with an international perspective comparing different approaches to involuntary treatment worldwide, and Milla follows up with a local perspective from clinicians in Queensland.The references for this episode are:Alanna: Harvery, Madeleine, et al. “Community Treatment Orders in Australia in the Context of International Literature: A Narrative Review of Consumers, Families and Health Professionals’ Perspectives.” International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, vol. 34, no. 3, 9 May 2025, https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.70061. Accessed 16 May 2025. Milla: Wild, K., Sawhney, J., Wyder, M., Sebar, B., & Gill, N. (2024). Reasons behind the rise in involuntary psychiatric treatment under mental health act 2016, Queensland, Australia – Clinician perspectives. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 98, 102061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2024.102061The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

As we move further into the year, 2025 brings further changes to The Psych Review team. This special episode is Shakira's last with the podcast, and we try to mark the occasion with a couple of very interesting and novel articles. Greg walks us through some exciting developments around the potential for GLP-1 receptor antagonists to treat psychosis, and Alanna digs into the complexity of delusions in psychosis and how things may be more complex than they seem. Goodbye Shakira, the team won't be the same without you!The references for this episode are:Greg: Yan Xie, Taeyoung Choi & Ziyad Al-Aly. Mapping the effectiveness and risks of GLP-1 receptor agonists. Nature Medicine (2025). Published online on 20 January 2025Alanna: Pappa, E., Baah, F., Lynch, J., Shiel, L., Blackman, G., Raihani, N., & Bell, V. (2025). Delusional Themes are More Varied Than Previously Assumed: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Schizophrenia bulletin, sbae225. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbae225The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

It's December and as 2024 draws to a close so does year mark the moving on of on one of our founding hosts. It's Dave's last ever episode (for real this time) and we have the whole crew together to send him off. Dave's final article considers the often overlooked importance of exercise in treating psychiatric conditions, and with her article Alanna brings us up to speed on alternate approaches to defining personality disorders. We miss you already Dave!The references for this episode are:Dave: Antidepressants or Running Therapy: Comparing Effects on Mental and Physical Health in Patients with Depression and Anxiety Disorders; This study evaluates the impact of two treatment modalities: antidepressant medication (specifically escitalopram or sertraline) and running therapy. Published in Journal of Affective Disorders, July 2023 https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbae058Alanna: Bach, B., Kramer, U., Doering, S., di Giacomo, E., Hutsebaut, J., Kaera, A., De Panfilis, C., Schmahl, C., Swales, M., Taubner, S., & Renneberg, B. (2022). The ICD-11 classification of personality disorders: a European perspective on challenges and opportunities. Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation, 9(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40479-022-00182-0The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

It's August, and Dave, Shakira, and Mazz got together to record the latest episode of The Psych Review. Dave attempts to answer the question: Does moving house damage your children? Shakira's article asks the question: What drives violence in patients in forensic settings? Mazz doesn't ask any intelligent questions, but he does manage to quote Spider-Man.The references for this episode are:Dave: Sabel, C. E., Pedersen, C. B., Antonsen, S., Webb, R. T., & Horsdal, H. T. (2024). Changing Neighborhood Income Deprivation Over Time, Moving in Childhood, and Adult Risk of Depression. JAMA psychiatry.Shakira: Lambe, S., Cooper, K., Fazel, S., & Freeman, D. (2024). Psychological framework to understand interpersonal violence by forensic patients with psychosis. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 224(2), 47–54. doi:10.1192/bjp.2023.132The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

In May The Psych Review attended the 2024 RANZCP Congress in Canberra and presented a live and interactive episode direct from Ngunnawal Country. Alanna explores the nuance of the digital therapeutic alliance, Shakira broadens our understanding of the impact of racism in the clinical setting, and Dave guides us through a session covering the benefits of heated yoga.The references for this episode are:Alanna: Tong, F., Lederman, R., D'Alfonso, S., Berry, K., & Bucci, S. (2023). Conceptualizing the digital therapeutic alliance in the context of fully automated mental health apps: A thematic analysis. Clinical psychology & psychotherapy, 30(5), 998–1012. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2851Shakira: Wijeratne C, Sharma S, Large M. Understanding and addressing racism in clinical encounters. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2024;58(4):297-299. doi:10.1177/00048674231219854Dave: Nyer, M. B., Hopkins, L. B., Nagaswami, M., Norton, R., Streeter, C. C., Hoeppner, B. B., ... & Mischoulon, D. (2023). A Randomized Controlled Trial of Community-Delivered Heated Hatha Yoga for Moderate-to-Severe Depression. The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 84(6), 49607.The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

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 episode are:Dave: Mamat Z, Anderson MC. Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts. Sci Adv. 2023 Sep 22;9(38):eadh5292. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh5292. Epub 2023 Sep 20. PMID: 37729415; PMCID: PMC10511195.Alanna: McGrath, J. J., Lim, C. C. W., & Saha, S. (2023). Cat Ownership and Schizophrenia-Related Disorders and Psychotic-Like Experiences: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Schizophrenia bulletin, sbad168. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbad168.The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

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 good to be true.The references for this episode are:Alanna: CADE J. F. (1949). Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement. The Medical journal of Australia, 2(10), 349–352. https://doi.org/10.1080/j.1440-1614.1999.06241.xDave: Rosenhan, D. L. (1973). On being sane in insane places. Science, 179(4070), 250-258The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

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 child maltreatment in Australia which some listeners may understandably find distressing. To learn more about the Australian Child Maltreatment Study you can follow this link: https://www.acms.au The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

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 episode was:Good psychiatric management: an evidence-based treatment for borderline personality disorder. This session was presented by Catherine Ludbrook and Laura Cooke-O'Connor from the Borderline Personality Disorder Collaborative.The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

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/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00263Chung, J., Mukerji, S., & Kozlowska, K. (2023). Cortisol and α-amylase awakening response in children and adolescents with functional neurological (conversion) disorder. The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry, 57(1), 115–129. https://doi.org/10.1177/00048674221082520The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

It's the (long awaited, we're sure!) first episode of season 5. Alanna talks about the evidence of the use of LAIs in the old age population and Shakira walks us through pathways to care in first generation migrants. The references for this episode are: Doolabh, U., & Yeap, S. (2022). Examining long-acting injectable antipsychotic (depot) medication in the elderly: a five-year retrospective cross-sectional study evaluating depot use in an Australian psychogeriatric service. Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 30(1), 31–36. https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562211029951Waxmann, A., Thompson, A., McGorry, P., & O'Donoghue, B. (2022). Pathways to care for first-generation migrants with first episode psychosis in northwestern metropolitan Melbourne. The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry, 48674221075980. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00048674221075980The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.

It's episode four of season four, and our first 'non-special' episode of the season. Mazz looks into the rationale behind routine prolactin monitoring, Shakira talks to us about the evidence behind psychosocial interventions in Schizophrenia, and Alanna takes us for a walk down the intestinal tract to look at different types of gut microbes.The references for this episode are:- Mazz: Jones, A. et al. Prolactin ordering patterns in psychiatric inpatients and the impact this has on patient management. Australasian Psychiatry, 2021. Vol 29 (3), pp 282-285.- Shakira: Psychosocial and psychological interventions for relapse prevention in schizophrenia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Bighelli, Irene et al. The Lancet Psychiatry, Volume 8, Issue 11, 969 - 980- Alanna: Nikolova VL, Smith MRB, Hall LJ, Cleare AJ, Stone JM, Young AH. Perturbations in Gut Microbiota Composition in Psychiatric Disorders: A Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry. Published online September 15, 2021. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.2573The Psych Review was brought to you by Call to Mind, a telepsychiatry service that you can learn more about at www.calltomind.com.au. The original music in our podcast was provided by the very talented John Badgery, and our logo was designed by the creative genius of Naz.