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Friday essay: 'black bile', malaria therapy and insulin comas – a brief history of mental illness

Possibly the earliest account of a disturbed mind is recorded in a 3,500-year-old Hindu text that describes a man who is “gluttonous, filthy, walks naked, has lost his memory and moves about in an uneasy manner”.

The Conversation

As the mental health crisis in children and teens worsens, the dire shortage of mental health providers is preventing young people from getting the help they need

The hospital where I practice recently admitted a 14-year-old girl with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, to our outpatient program. She was referred to us six months earlier, in October 2022, but at the time we were at capacity. Although we tried to refer her to several other hospitals, they…

The Conversation

Crystals, tarot and gong baths - are we replacing psychiatry with psychics?

Not long ago, everyone had a psychologist. Now, everyone seems to have a psychic, too. Laura Antonia Jordan finds out how changing perceptions are driving everyday Londoners to embrace the woo-woo

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ADHD meds don't predict drug use: study

New research in JAMA Psychiatry found no association between taking Ritalin and struggling with substance use

Salon

Healing Doesn’t Happen in Private: An Interview with Judith Herman

The pioneer in trauma treatment has a new book that focuses on the need for social justice

The Walrus

Ministers under fire for ‘levelling down’ desperately-needed mental health services for children in London

Government criticised over plans to move doctor training posts in child and adolescent psychiatry from the capital to other parts of the country

Evening Standard

Psychiatry CME organised at SDM

The Department of Psychiatry in SDM Medical College, Dharwad, organised its 17th Annual Psychiatry CME (Continued Medical Education) recently.

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Persons with mental illnesses do well with family support, says expert

Lecture on ‘The Evolution of Psychiatry and its History in India’ held as part of the Keshav Desiraju Memorial Lecture Series, organised by Cognizant Foundation and The Banyan’s partnership for the mental health sector

The Hindu

Five rare and unusual psychiatric syndromes – including one where people believe they are dead

Most people are familiar with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but some conditions are so rare that many psychiatrists won’t come across a single case in their professional lives. Here I present five of the rarest – and strangest – syndromes known to psychiatry.

The Conversation

Study: Schizophrenia patients' symptoms grow by disrupted sleep, wakefulness trends

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and those from Italy described common patterns of sleep disturbances and irregularities in daily rhythms of rest and activity across patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, or SSD, in a paper that was just published in Molecular Psychiatry. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Call for psychosis treatment overhaul after evidence of autoimmune trigger

Patients to be treated with medicines used for arthritis and lupus in relaunch of pioneering UK trial

The Guardian - UK

UK university launches postgraduate course in clinical use of psychedelics

Certificate at Exeter to include teaching about existing therapies and research in psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience

The Guardian - UK

I went behind the scenes of Penguin's psychiatric titles – what I found was women’s hidden labour

Penguin Books brought psychiatric ideas to post-war Britain through their inexpensive paperback list. This eclectic list ranged from general introductions to psychiatry and psychotherapy, to discussions of specific problems like depression and anorexia nervosa, and also large political issues such as propaganda and brainwashing.

The Conversation

Autism is more common among Black and Hispanic kids for the first time ever—but only because screening is better

The increase in diagnoses is from “this rush to catch up,” said David Mandell, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatry professor.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Weed’s impact on teenagers? UIC neuroscientist uses rats to study marijuana’s effects on adolescent brains

Kuei Tseng is a key figure in the emerging field of biological psychiatry. His findings and those of others might give teens and parents pause about marijuana’s effects on developing brains.

Tribune News Service

Seniors with anxiety frequently don’t get help. Here’s why

Anxiety is the most common psychological disorder affecting adults in the U.S. In older people, it’s associated with considerable distress as well as ill health, diminished quality of life, and elevated rates of disability.

Evening Standard

Children and young people with eating disorders face ‘treatment postcode lottery’

Royal College of Psychiatry warns of huge rise in young people seeking treatment since before pandemic

The Conversation

Use of psychedelics to treat PTSD, OCD, depression and chronic pain – a researcher discusses recent trials, possible risks

New research is exploring whether psychedelic drugs, taken under strict medical supervision, might help in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic pain, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. SciLine interviewed Dr. Jennifer Mitchell – a professor in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry Behavioral Science in the School of Medicine at the University…

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Reason

Psychiatrists Do Not Know What They Are Treating

The mysteries of the mind are harder to unravel than psychiatrists pretend.

Inverse

This neuroscientist’s breakthrough experiment could herald a new era of psychiatry

After a transformation of his own, neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca is shifting psychiatric research at large by performing transformations at the cellular level.

Mic

Talkspace offers therapy & psychiatry from the comfort of your home

80% off of people in a study found Talkspace online therapy as effective as in-person sessions

The Guardian - UK

Debra Shulkes obituary

Other lives: Editor, translator and advocate for ex-users and survivors of psychiatry

Reuters

Trauma of South Korea Halloween party tragedy is pervasive, expert says

As South Korea mourns the deaths of more than 150 people in a Halloween party crush, many people - even those not directly involved - are dealing with trauma and a search for answers that has at times blamed the victims, a psychiatry expert says.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Haunted asylums are a Halloween staple. Does the fictional gore undermine psychiatry’s good?

As a holiday of contrasts, Halloween celebrates sweetness and superstition — trick or treat. Traditions range from pumpkin carving and candy eating to the personification of werewolves and ghosts. Yet as adults seek thrills in haunted houses and horror movies, one common and disturbing motif is the “gorification” of the…

Benzinga

Fmr. Deutsche Bank CEO & Real Madrid's Toni Kroos Invest In A Psychedelics Company's $14M Funding Round

US and German-based HMNC Brain Health (HMNC Holding GmbH), a clinical stage biopharma company pioneering precision psychiatry, has raised nearly $14 million (EUR 14.3 million) in the closing of the first of two expected funding series, bringing the total capital raised to date to over $41 million (EUR 42.3 million.)…

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