James K. Rustad, MD

Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont; Department of Psychiatry Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire; White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont

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About

James K. Rustad, MD, is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, and White River Junction VA Medical Center. Since 2013, Rustad has published extensively on topics including patient care, neurology, psychiatry, catatonia, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, primary care, and veterans' health. His work covers clinical approaches to managing medical errors, neuromodulatory technologies, complex case documentation, impulsivity, somatic delusions, and collaboration between primary care and mental health providers. Rustad frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Theodore A. Stern and Patrick A. Ho.

Publications

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Diagnosing and Treating Dizziness
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Diagnosing and Treating Dizziness

September 18, 2025

Psychiatric treatment of dizziness includes behavioral therapy to decrease arousal to the identified stimulus and pharmacologic interventions to decrease acute anxiety and prevent onset of downstream anxiety.
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Managing Psychotropic Medication–Induced Priapism
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Managing Psychotropic Medication–Induced Priapism

July 31, 2025

A 30-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder presented to the ED with a prolonged, painful erection of spontaneous onset. His current medications included long-acting injectable paliperidone palmitate, valproic acid, and...
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FND in Active-Duty Military Personnel and Veterans
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FND in Active-Duty Military Personnel and Veterans

July 24, 2025

The most common presentations of functional neurologic disorder are functional seizures and functional movement disorders, including paresis. Other common manifestations are somatosensory or visual symptoms and speech disorders.
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Time-Limited Teaching of Psychiatry to Medical Students
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Time-Limited Teaching of Psychiatry to Medical Students

June 17, 2025

Educational practices such as a “flipped classroom” or “layered learning” can allow the educational experience to be better tailored to the needs of learners.
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Psychosis-Related PTSD
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Psychosis-Related PTSD

February 6, 2025

Frightening psychotic experiences might serve as traumatic events and precipitate development of PTSD, and the first step to successful management is ensuring a proper assessment.
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Management of Insomnia in the General Hospital
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Management of Insomnia in the General Hospital

January 21, 2025

Although the etiology of insomnia is often multi-factorial, both nonpharmacologic and various pharmacologic approaches can provide rapid relief; unfortunately, each is associated with drug-drug interactions and potentially problematic side...
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Neuropsychiatric Complications of Hypervitaminosis D
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Neuropsychiatric Complications of Hypervitaminosis D

June 13, 2024

A 28-year-old man presented to the emergency department with severe agitation, insomnia, weakness, constipation, and muscle jerks after nonsuicidal overdosing of vitamin D.
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Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of Thyroid Dysfunction
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Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of Thyroid Dysfunction

December 26, 2023

Have you ever been uncertain about how to evaluate and treat the neuropsychiatric signs and symptoms of thyroid disease? If you have, then this case vignette and discussion should...
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Catatonia in the Context of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis
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Catatonia in the Context of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis

August 3, 2023

This is the case of an elderly woman who presented with symptoms of catatonia that were refractory to traditional treatment and was found to have a cerebral venous sinus...
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Financial Abuse of Older Adults
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Financial Abuse of Older Adults

June 13, 2023

This case demonstrates some of the vulnerabilities common to older adults, the variety of possible financial scams, and the determination with which criminals can target vulnerable elders.
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COVID Exacerbates Psychosis in Schizophrenia
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COVID Exacerbates Psychosis in Schizophrenia

June 28, 2022

Here, read about a patient with preexisting schizoaffective disorder who experienced an acute worsening of psychosis temporally related to COVID-19.
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