About this blog
This is the personal blog of a Dutch psychiatrist working in a University hospital. His specialty in psychiatry is the treatment of depression. This explains his interest in electroconvulsive therapy and the development of new forms of neurostimulation for the treatment of depression.
He is also involved in medical education. He does research in the treatment and neuroscience of depression. He mostly writes about these topics on this blog for fun and to keep up with recent developments.
Besides writing about his work he also writes about other subjects that (neuro)stimulates him such as chocolate, computer gaming, gadgets, and Internet. Warning: he has a positive publication bias when it comes to these subjects.
The postings are based on what I want to write about and what I feel will be interesting to read.
About the author
The author of this blog is Walter van den Broek. He is working as a psychiatrist since 1992. His dissertation in 2004 was on “Treatment of depressed inpatients, efficacy and tolerability of a four step treatment algorithm”.
He is an associate professor in psychiatry, and deputy director of psychiatric residency training. He teaches nurses, medical students and residents in psychiatry. He has experience in medical and psychiatric education, training and supervision.
He is a member of educational committees and he participated in the development of different educational programs for medical students and psychiatric residents. He supervises medical students doing their medical traineeships. He educates residents and psychiatrists in the theoretical and practical aspects of Electroconvulsive therapy in The Netherlands.
He doesn’t give advice here nor in the comments. Neither my hospital, partners, university, nor anyone else has approved of anything I write. The information in my posts is not intended as recommendations on how to diagnose or treat illnesses.
My blog posts contain a lot of medical information. As much as possible I will try to write blog posts with sources that can easily be looked up and verified. I write this blog on my own for fun and educational purposes. I seldom respond to questions for links, guest blog posts or commercial purposes.
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