MPS 35th Annual Psychopharmacology Update

Via Zoom Video Conference

Each year the psychopharmacology update course chair and cochair review feedback from the previous year including suggestions for topics of interest. Also, the organizers have extensive experience consulting with psychiatrists who have psychopharmacology questions and become aware of prescribing issues that are not well understood by practitioners. From these sources, a set of presentations was developed. The program begins with a discussion on the differential diagnosis and treatment of bipolar depression. A second speaker will focus on truths and fallacies of psychopharmacology. This will be followed by a speaker providing evidence-based approaches on how to deprescribe in older adults. The program continues with a discussion on the treatment of generalized anxiety in older adults. After a lunch break, there is a discussion on what happens when we dose medications beyond their regulatory limits. The final lecture will be on the topic of advances in the treatment of major depressive disorder with psychotic features. The program will end with questions and answers on any topic in psychopharmacology with a panel of the day’s speakers.