On this episode of Look Again we’re asking: what’s at the root of the hesitation around using medication to treat mental illness? How do the medications actually work on the brain? And what other treatments work in combination with medications? Host Faydra Aldridge speaks with Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia.

Additional Resources: 

• Non-Invasive Neurostimulation Therapies (NINET) Laboratory (UBC Department of Psychiatry)
• Safety, tolerability, and risks associated with first- and second-generation antipsychotics: a state-of-the-art clinical review
• Electroconvulsive Therapy: A History of Controversy, but Also of Help
• What is Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)? [Centre for Addiction and Mental Health] 
• Medications and Complementary Treatments [BC Schizophrenia Society]