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Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

Nortriptyline and the Tricyclic Antidepressants with Dr. Cummings

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Medicine, Science, Health & Fitness

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode of the podcast, we'll be doing a deep-dive into nortriptyline, a lesser-talked about medication in psychopharmacology. We'll cover a little about the history of tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) as well as the characteristics, side-effects, and indications to consider when prescribing this class of medication.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychothermic Podcast.

0:12.2

I'm here to talk about getting rid of burnout, increasing job satisfaction, and feeling

0:16.6

like an expert in what you do.

0:18.6

One thing that created a lot of burnout and angst for me was trying to get continued medical

0:22.0

education right at the last minute.

0:24.2

So why not join the CME membership and do CME while listening to this podcast?

0:28.6

Go to Psychiatrypodcast.com, sign up, sign in, take the test, and the certification

0:32.5

is emailed to you in seconds.

0:35.3

Hi, welcome back to the podcast.

0:36.4

Today, I am joined with Dr. Michael Cummings.

0:39.1

In this episode, we are going to be doing a deep dive into tricyclic antidepressants,

0:44.3

specifically nor tripling.

0:45.8

We'll be going through the history of tricyclic antidepressants and where they fit in the

0:50.3

timeline of the history of psychiatry.

0:53.0

We'll talk about their characteristics, adverse effects, contraindications, and we'll talk

0:57.9

about how they're used, specifically what are their current indications.

1:04.6

We'll talk about treatment-resistant depression, neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, ADHD, smoking

1:11.0

cessation, Parkinson's disease, migraines, and not only is there an audio episode on this,

1:17.6

but you can also find a more full and even more robust article on this on the website.

1:23.1

I think this is a great episode for someone in psychiatry to understand a medication in

1:30.1

depth.

1:31.1

We've had a lot of popularity in the past with other episodes on like close-aping and

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