The Making of Adult ADHD: The Rapid Rise of a Novel Psychiatric Diagnosis
What’s Eating Oregon? Peer Respites, The Lund Report & Beyond
Prenatal Antidepressant Exposure and Offspring Brain Morphologic Trajectory
This research paper has been published in JAMA Psychiatry. Key Points: Question: Is intrauterine exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and prenatal or postnatal depressive symptoms associated with brain morphologic trajectory in offspring? Findings: In this cohort study of 3198 mother-infant…
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Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?
Associations between constructs related to social relationships and mental health conditions and symptoms: an umbrella review
The Psychology of Fairy Tales
The producers (Eternalised) of this 48-minute video say: “Fairy tales fascinate us and give us a sense of warmth and home-coming that comes from the mythical realm of the imagination, a necessary complement to our everyday life. We are fundamentally…
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America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Health Getting Worse?
This article by Jamie Ducharme has been published in Time magazine. It begins: “The U.S. has reached peak therapy. Counseling has become fodder for hit books, podcasts, and movies. Professional athletes, celebrities, and politicians routinely go public with their mental health struggles….
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Some interesting quotes (Part 8)
You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: Dr. Allen Frances (psychiatrist and founding editor of two well-known psychiatric journals): “Main thing we’ve learned from the history of psychiatry is that we learn nothing from it and…
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Acceptability and optimisation of resources to support antidepressant cessation: A qualitative think-aloud study with patients
Wishful thinking: antidepressant drugs in childhood depression
