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
Educational Objectives
The goal of this program is to improve the management of migraine headaches, with emphasis on those that occur in individuals with mood disorders. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1. Identify etiologic factors shared among mood disorders, migraines, and chronic pain disorder.
2. Distinguish patients with depressive traits due to bipolar disorder from those with unipolar depression.
3. Explain mechanisms responsible for analgesic effects associated with multiple classes of psychiatric medications.
4. Recognize neurologic traits that predispose patients to the development of migraine headaches.
5. Educate patients about risk factors and protective influences that may affect the likelihood of a migraine attack.