Meditation training reduces long-term stress, hair analysis shows
They Say You’re Crazy: How The World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal
Introduction of a National Minimum Wage Reduced Depressive Symptoms in Low‐Wage Workers: A Quasi‐Natural Experiment in the UK
Does Pain Always Need a Drug? — Navy Psychologist Mary Vieten, PhD, ABPP
This short video clip, set within an American context, is an excerpt from the film Medicating Normal :
4 activists talk about the campaign for an independent review on ECT
This 36 minute video about ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) comes from the AD4E ( ADisorder4Everyone ) Festival 2021. It features Dr. Lucy Johnstone, Prof. John Read, Dr. Chris Harrop, Sarah Price Hancock, and Dr. Sue Cunliffe. You can watch it below:
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
Higher fruit and veg intake associated with better mental health in secondary school pupils
“Nutritious breakfast and lunch linked to emotional wellbeing in pupils across the age spectrum.” Reviewed by Emily Henderson and published by News Medical, this article (reporting research) begins: “Include good nutrition in public health strategies for kids’ mental health, urge researchers….
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gameChange: virtual reality therapy for mental health issues to be delivered by the NHS
The people at gameChange say that the VR therapy provided “allows a person to practise being in simulations of everyday situations … a café, shop, pub, street, doctor’s surgery, and a bus.” The background to this approach is described as follows:…
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Some interesting quotes (Part 5)
You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: “I cannot be the only person to be sickened by the sight of parties of psychiatrists standing at the airport desk with so many gifts with them that they…
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Abilify commercial: when do possible side-effects greatly outweigh supposed benefits?
Check out this 90-second advert for an atypical antipsychotic (aripiprazole), touted here under the brand name Abilify as an “add-on” to antidepressant medication. Then ask the obvious question – the same one that applies to a great many prescribed psychiatric…
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