PsyDactic - Residency Podcast
1) Can hooking your head up to a fancy battery (tDCS) cure depression?
In December 2025, the FDA authorized the Flow F100, an innovative at-home wearable headset that utilizes transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to treat major depressive disorder. Unlike trad...Show More
2) Game Theory for Parents and Other Humans with Kevin Zollman
PsyDactic welcomes The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting co-author, Kevin Zollman who discusses game theory as the science of strategic thinking. We explore how mathematical models like the Prisoner’...Show More
3) Childhood Deficit Disorder and the Atrophy of American Childhood
Dr. O'Leary proposes Childhood Deficit Disorder as a way to conceptualize the rise in mental health issues among modern youth, exploring how systemic changes in culture and environment contribute. He ...Show More
4) Clozapine - Beyond the Basics
Dr. O'Leary explores the history of clozapine, highlighting its initial revolutionary impact as the first atypical antipsychotic, followed by a ban on its use, followed by its re-emergences as a stric...Show More
5) Therapeutic Ultrasound with Dr. Michael Canney PhD
This episode includes a fascinating interview with a researcher in ultrasound, Dr. Michael Canney who is an acoustics researcher the chief scientific officer at a French company named Carthera (https:...Show More
6) Pediatric Bipolar vs Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
This PsyDactic podcast episode, hosted by Dr. O'Leary, delves into the complex and often controversial topic of diagnosing Pediatric Bipolar Disorder and its differentiation from other conditions, par...Show More
7) Gambling Disorder - Rarely Diagnosed, Highly Prevalent
Gambling disorder may be the most under-diagnosed disorder in the DSM. This is an exhaustive treatment of the neurobiological, psychological, and societal aspects of gambling addiction, featuring dis...Show More
8) Functional Neurological Disorder, Predictive Processing and Active Inference
Functional Neurological Disorder was previously called Conversion Disorder or psychogenic neurological symptoms and is a condition in which a patient develops any number of neurological symptoms (such...Show More
Functional Neurological Disorder, Predictive Processing and Active Inference
24:37 | Mar 20th, 2025
9) Behaviorism Part 1 - Classical Conditioning
Dr. O'Leary introduces PsyDactic - Child and Adolescent Board Study edition by sharing the first of two episodes on behaviorism, that field of psychology that took the radical stance of completely ign...Show More
10) Nicotinic Receptors, Anxiety, and PTSD - an A.I. generated discussion
-- Dr. O'Leary explores how an artificial intelligence tool summarizes recent data on the use of nicotinic receptor modulators for the treatment of anxiety and PTSD. Please send any comments to feedb...Show More