Mdedge Psychcast

Andrew Penn, MS, NP, conducts a Masterclass lecture on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy from the Psychopharmacology Update in Cincinnati. The meeting was sponsored by Global Academy for Medical Education and Current Psychiatry. Mr. Penn, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, is associate clinical professor of community health systems in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. Later, Dr. Renee Kohanski is back – this time to discuss the need to call out the truth when we see it. *  *  * Help us make this podcast better! Please take this short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/podcastsurveyOct2019 *  *  * Reemergence of MDMA for PTSD and psilocybin for MDD Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is currently being investigated with 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA) for treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and psilocybin for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). The use of these compounds would be highly regulated. These are not med