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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

Mad in America

The prevailing logic goes: if we can validate biometric tests that are clinically predictive of mental health concerns like in other medical fields, we can more precisely, effectively, and without (solely) subjective clinical observation, treat the malady. Should we give up the search for biomarkers altogether?

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Montana Winters: How to Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) in Billings and Bozeman

Montana Psychiatry

If you’ve been feeling a little down as the days get shorter and darker, you’re definitely not alone. Seasonal changes can really impact our mood, but knowing how they affect your mental healthand getting the right supportcan make a big difference. Your provider can discuss whether this option is right for you.

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Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

Mad in America

You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience. So why do we call schizophrenia a mental disorder, but not believing in conspiracy theories?

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

Mad in America

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In the Bible, atonement, as one online definition states, is the process of fixing relationships that have been broken by wrongdoing.

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Can Creativity Help You Heal Depression? An Interview with Psychiatrist, Dr. Carrie Barron

Lawyers with Depression

I also believe, especially for children, were in a striving, ambitious, productive time mentality for children and adults. Carrie: I think a lot of studies have been done, andtheres a depleted state of serotonin and neurotransmitters, and we need to boost it up with medication or activities that do the same. I think thats part of it.

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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

Mad in America

R ay Moynihan is an accomplished health journalist and author who has won several awards for his work. This applies in the mental illness world and everywhere in medicine. Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products. I started writing books. What was that about?

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Romantic Love and SSRIs

Real Psychiatry

Each item is rated on a scale of 1 (not true) to 9 (definitely true). sometimes my body trembles with excitement at the sight of not at all true 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 definitely true By my inspection the 30 items of this scale are all cognitive and emotional features of love. The PLS-30 is a 30-point scale of descriptors of romantic love.