The role of medication in mental health | Aware Webinar

Ita Fitzgerald is a Senior Mental Health Pharmacist who has worked in mental health for several years now across many fields from psychosis management, to management of anxiety and depression. She attended RCSI for her BSc Pharm and subsequent MPharm. Since this time she has completed an MSc in clinical pharmacy with UCC and due to begin a PhD later this year. Her research interests are focused in the areas of personalised medicine and antipsychotic side-effect management, particularly antipsychotic-induced weight gain.

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Resources mentioned
Choice and Medication: https://www.choiceandmedication.org/i...
Lithium: https://www.theyellowpractice.co.uk/k...
Valproate: https://gpnotebook.com/simplepage.cfm...
Antipsychotics: https://www.cntw.nhs.uk/content/uploa...
Stopping your medicine: benzodiazepines and z-drugs. A guide for patients from the HSE: https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/cspd...

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