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The Frontier Psychiatrists
by Owen Scott Muir, M.D.
The Frontier Psychiatrists Substack has this companion podcast. Owen Scott Muir, M.D. is a writer, physician, scientist, and podcaster, bringing content about healthcare that is personal, weird, and less boring than most of the things you’ve heard. Subscribe at https://thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com/ thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com
Episodes
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EEG + Monarch eTNS for ADHD? Mike Ward From Firefly Neuroscience Joins With News.
I’m a fan of a good interview, especially when there is breaking news to discuss. Ways to measure the brain, including EEG, have been news on this newsletter for some time. We’ve had Universal Brain at our RAMHT events. I gave 256 lead EEG from EGI (part of Magstim) on my head just the other week...
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A Deep Dive into EEG with Firefly Neuroscience's Dave DeCaprio
Dear readers, I’ve been a sceptic for too long. It’s easy to be sceptical as a psychiatrist—the flowers will be lour’d upon you! I’ve been using Graymatter’s Health PRISM EEG-fMRI neurofeedback system for a few years, it’s true. There are EEG leads on there. I saw a lot of EEG-related technology…
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Getting our heads around the manosphere: two health professionals react
Thank you to everyone who tuned into our live video! Join Jeremy the therapist and I for our next live video in the app. As a brief aside, I have found that social media, when actually used to be Social, used to be a wonderful tool. I met Jeremy on Clubhouse, and we've never actually gotten to...
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Introducing Brain Medicine
Hi. I haven’t done a podcast in too long, so here is one! I’m introducing Brain Medicine. I’ve written about its ascendancy in the news this week. For those who’d like to read something today, I suggest this article about understanding Narcissistic Personality Disorder, in Prevention magazine…
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How To Ruin Your Relationships
One of the things I like about being on the Internet is that I get to meet the actual humans! There are people I've had real relationships with over many years, and some of them I've just never gotten to see in person yet. Making content on the Internet helps connect you to other people making...
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Brain Stimulation (TMS) as a Treatment for Auditory Hallucinations
Schizophrenia is a really challenging illness. There's been a lot of progress made recently, I will note. I've already written about novel treatments like Cobenfy, and using accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation for negative symptoms and positive symptoms in schizophrenia. One of the most...
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A Breakthrough in Violence Prevention, by Treating Violent Criminals with MBT Therapy
I wrote an article about this research before, available here. However, I also made a podcast for my audience about the topic! Antisocial Personality Disorder is usually considered untreatable. A new study from the Anna Freud Centre’s MBT program demonstrates a remarkably effective treatment. At...
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How I Wrote 966 Articles and 98 Podcasts in Three Years
This is the podcast version of yesterday’s article. Yes, I Know It Has A Different Title. Thanks for listening. And if you are looking for care for yourself or a loved one…join us at Radial—where I work—we focus on next-generation treatments. They include Spravato, Nightware, eTNS, PRISM...
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How Can We Treat Bipolar Disorder in the Global South?
I was invited, thanks to the magnificent and only-ever-positive internet, to give a lecture to colleagues in Nigeria. I’m kidding, a little—the internet can be rough. Ask a comment section of a YouTube video! However, it is also a technology that has brought the world closer together. One of…
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Ketamine in the Land of Taylor Swift
One of my great joys as a psychiatrist is the ability to collaborate with excellent colleagues. Irfan Handoo, M.D., of Kansas City Psychiatric Partners, is one such human. In this interview, we learn about how Dr. Handoo went from psychopharmacologist to interventional psychiatrist, why Kansas…
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Suicide Among Resident Physicians
Every once in a while, science authors will crank out a paper that answers some questions, but asks so many more. I’ve been talking, writing, and podcasting about physician suicide longer than most other topics in my creative life. I did a whole award-winning series as a Rudin Master Scholar in...
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Say His Name: Five Years Since Mr. George Floyd
Author’s Note: This writing was adapted from a series of conversations around race in America and edited as audio, recorded in 2020, right after George Floyd was lynched.. The podcast of this writing is the real thing, as it were. What follows is edited text to clarify the narrators, absent the...
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The Scalable Depression Solution
Owen Muir, M.D. of The Frontier P This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com/subscribe
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Tardive Dyskinesia: Do I Have It?
Oh my. The irony is thick with this one. Your author, and sometimes scientist, Owen Scott Muir, M.D. has been doing research on Tardive Dyskinesia. And…he might have the disorder. The search function lets you search for other articles on the topic. If you are interested in treatments for...
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Can Inflammation Status Predict Response to Depression Treatment?
The frontier Psychiatrists breaks down a publication on the topic of immune modulation of TMS response in depression. And Dr. Owen Muir explains what inflammation is for mental health conditions in the process. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...
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The Plague Of Athens Podcast
I’ve been obsessed with the Peloponnesian War as a historical event for 20 years now. I wrote an article about it recently, and also recorded a song about it many years back. Enjoy the listen! If you like the music, there is more of it on Spotify… The Frontier Psychiatrists is a reader-supported...
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How Did Rapid Remission from Depression Become the New Standard of Care?
This podcast was edited on a plane ride to Japan, and the intro was recorded in a bathroom while my kids slept off the jet lag. It’s still good. I recently went down with Ben Greenzweig, the Executive Director of the non-profit Living Water Brain Treatment Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.…
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The Mystery of Machine Gun Kelly
My readers and listeners know that this project, The Frontier Psychiatrists, is daily. Sometimes, I don't get the thing done till the end of the day. Today is one of those days. I was running on empty when it came to narrative this morning, so I decided to try to make a podcast. One of the tricky...
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Why Ketamine Clinics Keep Closing
Today, The Frontier Psychatrists welcomes back my friend Ben Spielberg. He's been a reader for a long time and has contributed to the newsletter in the past. It was on Clinical Trial design, a perennial favorite around these parts. With only light edits, what follows is his work, narrated by me,...
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Building Trust In Clinical Trials
The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily-enough health-themed publication. But sometimes, I just want to make a podcast. Today is one such day. Enjoy! The Frontier Psychiatrists is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber....
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THIS IS NOT THE WAY: CEO of UnitedHealthcare Murdered in Midtown Manhattan
Today is a day of mourning. In broad daylight, in the city I love, Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare’s insurance subsidiary, was murdered. According to CNN: Brian Thompson was walking toward the New York Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, dressed in a suit and tie, to attend...
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RFK (the) II Tries Out For Richard (the) III
Synopsis: Bobby, alone on the side of the road driving back to Manhattan after loading a bear carcass into his Cybertruck, reveals his intention to play the villain. He then pretends to console Donald, the first victim of this villainy. After Donald is led off toward the White House, Bobby greets...
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Cobenfy
The path from xanomeline to the brand name treatment named Cobenfy was a long one. Cobenfy is FDA-approved for the treatment of Schizophrenia. Here is the literal label: COBENFY is a combination of xanomeline, a muscarinic agonist, and trospium chloride, a muscarinic antagonist, indicated for the...
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Doctors of Scale
I was at AACAP and sat down with Dr. Sood, a colleague, and we had a chat about investing, goal setting, venture scaleable businesses, and private equity, and we had some fun at the expense of Red Lobster in the process. I hope my colleagues enjoy the listen! Prior articles on the topic include...
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The Culture of Burnout
This Podcast is a recording of departmental grand rounds presented at the Medical University of South Alabama pre-pandemic on burnout. It references a long legal back and forth I’d put up with. That has led to, last year, our legal team filing a defamation lawsuit and, this week, a request for an...
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Why Bipolar Depression Gets Worse In The Fall with Dr. Owen Muir, M.D.
The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily health-themed newsletter. My dear friend Courtny —who recently penned an awesome guest post— reminded me that Fall is here. And with it, seasonal changes in mood for those with Bipolar Disorder. I’ve written about having bipolar disorder before, in a letter…
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Infidelity: A Failure of Mentalizing?
This newsletter is quite the multi-media shop. It gave me a new tool here on Substack, and I’ll use it less-than-polishedly. I wrote a column earlier this week on infidelity, which seemed to strike a chord. This video experiment was created in response to reader feedback on that piece of writing....
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Everything You Ever Wanted Broke My Heart
My mom and dad left a lot unsaid between them, and after his second stroke, the ability to have the conversation that they had put off? It was like visiting a ski slope in the summer. You can see the runs, you can see where the snow would have been, and imagine the speed, the presence, the…
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Don't Lie to Congress: Advice to the Leadership of Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Recently, the leadership of all three big health PBMs testified in front of Congress…and…have now been asked to correct the congressional record. So, I made a podcast instead of an article about it today cause my kids are away, and I love the format. I hope you all enjoy it. The transcript is in...
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The Wizard Of Odds, Ch 1
The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily enough health-themed publication. It’s also a podcast. Sometimes, I need a break from serious coverage of policy. In those cases, I amuse myself with David Foster Wallace-esque fan fiction about health policy, like this first chapter in my Wizard of Oz-themed...
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PRISM: Trauma Treatment You Don't Need to Talk About
I have been writing about PTSD treatments quite a bit in The Frontier Psychiatrists newsletter. One is offered at Fermata, the clinic I co-run in Brooklyn. I recently wrote an article about it. We provide Prism treatment for PTSD at our clinic, much like our colleagues at Homebase in Boston, with...
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Open Comment Outsiders
My friend and RAMHT co-founder, Grady Hannah, had a quick and dirty conversation with two friends today about the thrilling 2025 CMS Physician Fee Schedule. Every year, there is an open comment period on these proposed changes, and this year has some crucial changes for physicians who’d love to…
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Warning Labels For Social Media Are A Terrible Idea...A Podcast with Owen Muir, M.D.
Yesterday’s column was a fine article, but what if you miss my snarky tone while reading it to yourself? Problem? Solved. Dear Readers, here is the podcast version of the aforementioned article! For those hoping for actual solutions? The AACAP Facts for Families series of guides exist! For…
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We Need to Talk About Mental Health*
The Frontier Psychiatrists started as a room in on the clubhouse app. One of the enduring pleasures from that era is my friendship with @Psych Fox (Jeremy Fox, P.C.). He’s a licensed professional counselor, EMDR therapist, and a delight to speak with. This week’s podcast features a discussion of…
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Accelerated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (aTMS), Explained
The Frontier Psychiatrists newsletter and podcast do a lot of cheerleading for brain stimulation—particularly accelerated TMS. However, I’ve recently added many new readers and have not explained my favorite brain stimulation approach. The podcast version and a useful transcript are intended for...
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The Mental Health Crisis
The following is a brief explanation of an overarching point of this newsletter: The Frontier Psychiatrists, for new and old readers alike. It's mostly penned, in the Apple Pencil Pro sense of the word, by Owen Scott Muir, M.D., although I sometimes have guests. We already have a diffusion…
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The Trial of Dr. Alan Emamdee I
The Frontier Psychiatrists is a newsletter and a podcast. Most people assume podcast means “recording a good enough conversation.” Yes, I do those too. I also have a sick fetish for spending way too much time crafting highly produced audio pieces that happen to be podcasts. I think these might…
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The End of Bromance
The Frontier Psychiatrists started as a Creator First show on the ill-fated clubhouse app. One of our favorite guests was the remarkable @Psych Fox (Jeremy Fox, LPC), an EMDR therapist with a passion for working with men around their actual problems. One of those is the loss of normative...
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I Explained The Pandemic to Myself: Episode 5
The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily health-themed publication. Your author’s love of podcasting is well established, and today, another from the vaults, dating back to the pandemic. In this episode, which I called “The Wave,” I started getting a little more ambitious in production, and strange…
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Change (Healthcare) My Mind!
I know how much my readers love my ongoing coverage of Change Healthcare, and sort of kind of promise to keep dissecting drugs or making fun of myself or whatever it is you find compelling about this newsletter and media empire. Today, however, I will publish a podcast. I had a conversation with...
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Magnesium-Ibogaine in Veterans With TBI and PTSD
In this Frontier Psychiatrists Podcast, Jeremy Fox, P.C., And I discuss this remarkable work, as published by Cherian Et. Al. In Nature Medicine. Always love when @Psych Fox can pop in! We discussed the role of understanding the sample in a research trial and the remarkable potency of Ibogaine,...
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Can Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) be an On-Ramp for Help?
The Frontier Psychiatrists started as a “room” on Clubhouse, and in this podcast, I am joined by one of our favorite contributors @Psych Fox ! He joins me today to discuss how employee assistance programs can create the on-ramp to help and what might improve that process. A sampling of prior...
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The Death of My Sister
On weekends, I tend to take a break from health policy to focus on personal writing here on The Frontier Psychiatrists. This one is unfortunate, and it is a fair warning to readers who are in no mood for something like that. My older sister, Alison, was troubled. She was also very gifted. She was...
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Trauma Therapy You Don't Need To Talk About
I checked in with Jeremy Fox, P.C., about a new FDA-cleared device, the PRISM system by GrayMatters Health. This is a treatment modality for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that doesn't require talking about your trauma! @Psych Fox is one of my favorite trauma therapists, so I called him to…
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Reading An Open Letter To My Bipolar Disorder
This article was among my most popular. Here it is, in podcast format. Enjoy! Other articles relevant to bipolar disorder include: Depakote Is Bipolar Disorder a Circadian Rhythm Disorder? Lamotrigine (Lamictal) dosing guide. Does Lithium Prevent Suicide in Bipolar Disorder? Lurasidone (Latuda)...
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First Breaks
The Frontier Psychiatrists didn’t start as a newsletter. It began as a clubhouse room, with friends like @Psych Fox and Michelle Bernabe, RN joining myself and Carlene MacMillan, MD for audio-only conversations. Even before that, I was a bit podcast-obsessed. I won a grant to record podcasts…
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The Remind-er! An Interview with Anthony Sterns of iRxReminder
The Frontier Psychiatrists is a substack-hosted media empire…we have video, newsletter, dumb memes, podcasts, and music—my gosh golly! Today, I bring you a conversation with a colleague who is both humble and brilliant. We first met on Clubhouse—in 2020—when Carlene MacMillan, MD and I were…
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"Can Anxiety Can Be Over?": MM-120, an LSD Analog Phase IIb Data in Generalized Anxiety Disorder Released!
The Frontier Psychiatrists started as a room in Clubhouse, and one of the people who made that awesome was Jeremy Fox, P.C. He joins me today for this video podcast to chat about the groundbreaking phase IIb data released by Mind Med today: MM-120 100 µg – the dose achieving the highest level of...
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Ramon Lizardo, M.D. talks Disability, and Raising Your Kids Right
Ramon Lizardo, M.D., and I met at least two years ago when he was an investor, and I was pitching him… something. We’ve become friends. In this conversation, he reveals that while he was busy building fabulously successful healthcare companies, he was also going deaf. The audio isn’t great…which…
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The Future of Brain Health?
Welcome to the Frontier Psychiatrist…. Podcast. It's a podcast with myself, Dr. Owen Muir, as your host, and it's a companion podcast to FrontierPsychiatrist.com, a sassy Substack about health-related things. This is a conversation between Jazz (Glastra) and me. She is the senior director at…
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