Managing Psychopharmacology Adverse Events:
A Rapid-Decision Series
Recognize, Prevent, and Manage Medication Side Effects — Drug Class by Drug Class
Point-of-care guidance for the adverse effects of psychiatric medications — built for busy clinicians who need to act fast, avoid the common traps, and keep patients on treatment that works.
Antipsychotics Complete · 21 chapters
Released in five parts — all five are live. The cards below are the parts of this one course.
Movement Disorders
The EPS set, one event at a time — acute dystonia, akathisia, drug-induced parkinsonism, tardive dyskinesia & NMS.
View Course →Metabolic & Endocrine
The slow burdens that shorten lives — weight gain & metabolic syndrome (in two chapters), new-onset diabetes, dyslipidemia & hyperprolactinemia.
View Course →Cardiac & Autonomic
The two numbers that stop a prescription — QTc prolongation and the thresholds that actually apply, plus orthostatic hypotension and the falls it causes.
View Course →The Clozapine Set
Five problems that behave like nothing else in the class — agranulocytosis, myocarditis, the GI complication that outkills it, sialorrhea and seizures.
View Course →Other Systemic & Quick Reference
The effects that cut across every agent — sedation, sexual dysfunction and edema — closing with the quick-reference grid that maps every effect to every drug.
View Course →Antidepressants Releasing Sep 12–30
Thirty-one chapters in seven parts, publishing across September — a new part every three to four days.
Serotonergic & Neuropsychiatric
The emergencies and the misattributions — serotonin syndrome, activation, akathisia, the bipolar switch, tremor, bruxism and the EPS cluster.
View Course →GI, Sleep & Affect
The week-one complaints that make patients quit — nausea, insomnia and vivid dreams, sedation, and emotional blunting.
View Course →Metabolic, Sexual & Long-Term
The effects patients do not volunteer — weight gain, sexual dysfunction and PSSD, and the fracture risk that changes the deprescribing conversation.
View Course →Cardiac, Autonomic & Bleeding
Monitoring thresholds and co-prescribing calls — QTc and conduction, SNRI hypertension, orthostasis, sweating, urinary retention and bleeding risk.
View Course →Laboratory, Stopping & Switching
The result you did not expect, and the two manoeuvres that cause more harm than any single adverse effect — hyponatremia, DILI, hyperbolic tapering and cross-taper safety.
View Course →Agent-Specific Sets
Five agents whose profiles differ enough from the SSRI pattern to need their own chapters — bupropion, mirtazapine, the serotonin modulators, TCAs and MAOIs.
View Course →Uncommon & Quick Reference
The rare events worth recognising, closing with the matrix that maps every adverse effect to every commonly prescribed agent — the answer to "what do I switch to?"
View Course →The Rest of the Series
Coming soon — same rapid-decision format, one course per drug class.
Mood Stabilizers
Lithium toxicity & monitoring, the lamotrigine rash, valproate & thyroid/renal risks.
Releasing SoonAnxiolytics & Hypnotics
Benzodiazepines & Z-drugs — dependence, falls, respiratory depression & complex sleep behaviors.
Releasing SoonStimulants & ADHD Agents
Cardiovascular effects, appetite & growth, misuse & diversion, tics & the emergence of psychosis.
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This clinical series is part of the Psychiatry Education Forum Academy and is available exclusively to enrolled members.
Designed for busy clinicians, the Academy provides structured, high-yield, point-of-care content across psychopharmacology — so you can make faster, more confident decisions in real-world practice.
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