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. 2014 Apr;38(2):168-76.
doi: 10.1007/s40596-014-0050-x. Epub 2014 Feb 20.

Interventional psychiatry: how should psychiatric educators incorporate neuromodulation into training?

Nolan R Williams  1 , Joseph J Taylor, Jonathan M Snipes, E Baron Short, Edward M Kantor, Mark S George
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Interventional psychiatry: how should psychiatric educators incorporate neuromodulation into training?

Nolan R Williams et al. Acad Psychiatry. 2014 Apr.

Abstract

Objective: Interventional psychiatry is an emerging subspecialty that uses a variety of procedural neuromodulation techniques in the context of an electrocircuit-based view of mental dysfunction as proximal causes for psychiatric diseases.

Methods: The authors propose the development of an interventional psychiatry-training paradigm analogous to those found in cardiology and neurology.

Results: The proposed comprehensive training in interventional psychiatry would include didactics in the theory, proposed mechanisms, and delivery of invasive and noninvasive brain stimulation.

Conclusions: The development and refinement of this subspecialty would facilitate safe, effective growth in the field of brain stimulation by certified and credentialed practitioners within the field of psychiatry while also potentially improving the efficacy of current treatments.

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