Mad in America

DECEMBER 3, 2024

What if smoking isn’t just about addiction or comfort, but about something deeper—something rooted in how trauma reshapes the brain? Research into Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) has uncovered startling connections between trauma and long-term health behaviors. Trauma seems to have a way of impacting brain function.

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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma 105

Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

New Study Finds Connection Between Childhood Trauma and Psychosis In December, Ashley Bobak wrote about a new study which sheds new light on the profound impact of childhood trauma in the development of psychotic symptoms, particularly in treatment-resistant cases of schizophrenia.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Childhood trauma Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health 144

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense?

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Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A new review published in CNS Drugs analyzes the current available treatment guidelines for monitoring the potential negative side effects of clozapine. Shockingly, based on their inclusion criteria, the authors only found one existing guideline.

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Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Education Hospitality 108

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Psychedelic therapy Childhood trauma 113

Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

We were expected to assimilate a massive amount of information and then to regurgitate it during the end of the year exams. I was still only 17 years old but it was a great relief after the horrendous years I had spent at an all-girls boarding school. I felt humiliated—he had just denied my experience in front of 80 students.

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Trauma and the brain Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Sleep and mental health 145

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In 2018, he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research PTSD treatment in military veterans and continues to teach workshops for people with trauma-affected sleep. O n the Mad in America podcast today, we hear about the potential of lucid dreaming therapy to aid those struggling with post-traumatic stress.

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