2014 Education Trauma and the brain 
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
We both thought the vulnerability was accentuated when I didn’t take my meds—the longest period of negligence was 10 days when my mother died in 2014 (nothing happened)—but we didn’t know anything about the withdrawal syndrome then. OCD has a strong genetic component and was thought to be incurable.
ADDitude
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Epigenetic tags allow each of these cells to “read” only the parts of the DNA sequence that are relevant to them, in order to become skin cells, liver cells, brain cells, muscle cells, and other unique cells with the right structure and functions for their specific role. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.
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Mad in America
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). It would extend the duration of probate court orders authorizing ECT without a patients informed consent, from the current maximum of 45 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep. Anwar , Rep. Dubey, 2023).
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor). The series is being archived here.
International Society for Interpersonal Psychother
NOVEMBER 24, 2024
Mentalization is an imaginative activity about others or one self, intentional mental states of needs, desires, feelings, beliefs, goals, purposes and reasons (Channon, Crawford, Orlowska, Parikh, & Thoma, 2014; Fonagy & Bateman, 2006). Pending larger studies, we share the following case study, with the consent of those involved.
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