21.2 Dr. Robert Post, MD: Lithium, Dementia, and NIH Research Failures

This week, we're back to give you more information on bipolar illness, lithium, dementia, and the failures of the NIH in their research efforts, with one of the world's leading psychiatric experts, former Chief of the biological psychiatry branch of the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) for 20 years, Dr. Robert Post, MD and psychiatrist. Dr. Post has spent nearly the entirety of his career working in academia and research, and like our last guest, Janusz Rybakowski, MD, is a former recipient of the Mogens Schou Award. In Part 2 of this conversation, we talk about lithium's protective effects against dementia, the role of memantine in dementia and rapid cycling, the latest example of a profit > progress version of snake oil, the failing new class of monoclonal antibodies (-canamabs), and the failures of the NIH to give clinicians good comparative data of available treatments. I almost get Dr. Post to curse, but he stays true to his promise to his wife not to... Hope you enjoy!

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