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MindGames: Young, Scrappy, and Hungry

More than 100 resident teams competed for the chance to play in this year’s MindGames program, and in the end three came to San Francisco in pursuit of a chance for glory: Metro Health – Case Western Reserve University, SUNY Upstate Medical University, and Community Health of South Florida.

The psychiatry-focused quiz show offered a lively and challenging first round on Sunday, with a couple of categories proving to be real stumpers. (That said, one can debate if it’s good or bad that none of the residents knew the street names for illicit substances, such as “brown sugar.” If you’re curious about the answer, check out the headline on this article.)

But an amazing rally in the second round put all three teams in positive points, which brought it down to the final question: “Name both components of a newer treatment for schizophrenia that works through muscarinic receptors rather than dopamine blockade and minimizes peripheral side effects.”

All three teams guessed correctly, and in one of the tightest MindGames matches of all time (final scores of 2600, 2500, and 2400), Community Health of South Florida prevailed. Congratulations to the winning team of Tajudeen Basiru, M.D., Vicente Hernandez Reyes, M.D., and Michelle Shlafshteyn, M.D., as well as their program director, Moises Riveroon, M.D.

MindGames Masters: Voices of Experience

Yesterday afternoon, four experienced psychiatrists took the stage for the MindGames Masters event. Among the group was the defending 2025 champion, Vikas Gupta, M.D., founder and CEO of Wellness Psychiatry and vice chair of the 2026 Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee.
Looking to dethrone him were:

• Jimmy He, M.D., a psychiatrist at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts


• Howard Levin, M.D., a psychiatrist at St. Luke's Penn Foundation Psychiatric Associates in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania


• Sudhakar Shenoy, M.D., a psychiatrist in Chicago and APA’s ECP Trustee at Large

After a few moments of furiously pressing the buttons before the first question was even finished, the contestants got down to business through two spirited rounds. Once again, it came down to the final question with three participants still having a chance: “This psychiatrist received the 1927 Nobel Prize for his work on inducing febrile illness to treat psychosis and neurological consequences of syphilis.”

Gupta was in first place entering the final and the only one to correctly guess the answer. And now he’s a two-time MindGames Masters champion.

Will he continue his Ken Jennings–like run next year? To find out, attend APA 2027 in New York City—in person or virtually. ■