What is Akathisia? – The worst side effect of any psychiatric medication
This three-minute video comes from Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring (psychiatrist):
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Mental Health | Simon Baron-Cohen, Lucy Johnstone, David Healy, Caroline Hickman and more
In this 28 minute video from The Institute of Arts and Ideas, “Simon Baron-Cohen, Lucy Johnstone, David Healy, Caroline Hickman, Patricia Casey, Dinesh Bhugra, Havi Carel, Richard Bentall and Ann John discuss the complexities of mental health”:
Expert-by-experience in psychiatric research and abstract science
This 1 hour video come from Sam Fellowes, who says: “‘How the lived experience of experts-by-experience relates to the abstract nature of science’. I consider how we should understand lived experience in psychiatric research given that science involves abstractions which…
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Social Prescribing & Me
The National Academy for Social Prescribing say: “Many things that affect our health can’t be fixed by a medical prescription, such as: loneliness isolation financial stress Find out more about social prescribing and how it can help improve your physical & mental wellbeing” in this…
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Dr. Jason Fung: Financial Conflicts of Interests and the End of Evidence-Based Medicine
The Antidepressant Story
After skool: Mark Horowitz – common misconceptions about depression & antidepressants
Dr. Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist and Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. He has a doctorate in the neurobiology of depression and the action of antidepressants from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s…
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Paddy and Christine McGuinness: Our Family and Autism
The description of this TV programme (from the BBC) says: “Paddy McGuinness and his wife Christine have three children: eight-year-old twins Leo and Penelope, and five-year-old Felicity. All three have been diagnosed with autism. This raw and intimate documentary follows Paddy and…
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A Bit of Fry & Laurie – Psycho Psychiatrists
Something light-hearted, just for a change:
The Biases of Western Medicine | Gabor Maté, MD
This transcript of a talk by Dr. Gabor Maté has been published by Sustainable Human . It begins: “In the realm of child development, I just wish we’d actually look at the evidence. But we don’t. I worked in family practice for…
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