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Award-winning researcher Dr. Holly Swartz breaks down the "bipolar clock", and proposes a fresh approach to take charge of your bipolar symptoms by timing your light exposure, temperature, body position, eating, and social contact. Dr. Swartz also discusses the science behind social rhythm therapy (SRT) and Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT), and presents a fresh approach to reset your biological body clock and take charge of your bipolar symptoms. (00:00) Introduction (00:13) About Dr. Holly Swartz (04:00) Circadian Rhythms Are Key for Bipolar Disorder (08:37) Advantages of Having a "Bipolar Clock"? (11:42) Light Disruptions, Season Changes, Blue Light (16:51) Create Consistent Routines (20:51) Time Your Eating, Body Position, Social Contact, Temperature (29:08) Track Your Social Rhythm Metric (SRM) (30:25) Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) (33:33) Social Rhythm Therapy Workbook for Bipolar Disorder (36:00) Strive for a Supranormal Routine
Learn more and share this episode: https://bipolarclock.com Dr. Holly A. Swartz is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and President of the International Society of Bipolar Disorders (ISBD). She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College, medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed her psychiatric residency training at New York Hospital / Cornell University School of Medicine. Dr. Swartz’s research focuses on understanding and optimizing treatments for mood disorders. She is well known for her work evaluating Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) as treatments for depression and bipolar disorder. Her research focuses on the role of IPSRT and pharmacotherapy in the management of bipolar II depression and IPT in the management of maternal depression. She is engaged in collaborative projects to develop computational frameworks to model dyadic interpersonal behaviors in relation to psychotherapy process and outcomes and to understand neural correlates of change in chronotherapeutic behavioral interventions. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.
This episode is hosted by Dr. Erin Michalak and produced by Caden Poh.
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