Master the management of major depressive disorder (MDD) with clinical pearls from Dr. Marius Marcel Commodore, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Psychiatry from Temple University Hospital. We cover diagnosis, patient counseling, choice of agent, dose titration, augmentation...and DJ names? For full show notes visit http://thecurbsiders.com/podcast Join our newsletter mailing list. Rate us on iTunes, recommend a guest or topic and give feedback at thecurbsiders@gmail.com. Time Stamps 00:00 Intro 02:08 Rapid fire questions 11:04 Initial diagnosis and screening 13:06 Tools for diagnosis discussed 17:07 Shared decision making in choice of agent 19:40 Monitoring and follow up 21:51 Choice and comparison of agents 27:38 Augmentation and the STAR-D study 31:03 Quick recap 33:52 Cognitive behavior therapy 40:58 Medication titration and duration of therapy 45:18 Bipolar disorder screening 47:38 Screening for suicidality 49:58 Difficulty getting patients into specialty care 53:38 Mood disorders in health care providers 58:31 Listener Questions 60:48 Take home points 64:10 Outro Tags: antidepressant, assistant, care, depression, doctor, education family, foam, foamed, health, hospitalist, hospital, internal, internist, nurse, medicine, medical, mood, physician, practitioner, primary, psychiatry, ssri, snri, resident, student