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UK university launches postgraduate course in clinical use of psychedelics

Certificate at Exeter to include teaching about existing therapies and research in psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience

The Guardian - UK

I went behind the scenes of Penguin's psychiatric titles – what I found was women’s hidden labour

Penguin Books brought psychiatric ideas to post-war Britain through their inexpensive paperback list. This eclectic list ranged from general introductions to psychiatry and psychotherapy, to discussions of specific problems like depression and anorexia nervosa, and also large political issues such as propaganda and brainwashing.

The Conversation

Autism is more common among Black and Hispanic kids for the first time ever—but only because screening is better

The increase in diagnoses is from “this rush to catch up,” said David Mandell, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatry professor.

Fortune

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Weed’s impact on teenagers? UIC neuroscientist uses rats to study marijuana’s effects on adolescent brains

Kuei Tseng is a key figure in the emerging field of biological psychiatry. His findings and those of others might give teens and parents pause about marijuana’s effects on developing brains.

Chicago Sun-Times

Seniors with anxiety frequently don’t get help. Here’s why

Anxiety is the most common psychological disorder affecting adults in the U.S. In older people, it’s associated with considerable distress as well as ill health, diminished quality of life, and elevated rates of disability.

Tribune News Service

Children and young people with eating disorders face ‘treatment postcode lottery’

Royal College of Psychiatry warns of huge rise in young people seeking treatment since before pandemic

Evening Standard

Use of psychedelics to treat PTSD, OCD, depression and chronic pain – a researcher discusses recent trials, possible risks

New research is exploring whether psychedelic drugs, taken under strict medical supervision, might help in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic pain, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. SciLine interviewed Dr. Jennifer Mitchell – a professor in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry Behavioral Science in the School of Medicine at the University…

The Conversation

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Psychiatrists Do Not Know What They Are Treating

The mysteries of the mind are harder to unravel than psychiatrists pretend.

Reason

This neuroscientist’s breakthrough experiment could herald a new era of psychiatry

After a transformation of his own, neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca is shifting psychiatric research at large by performing transformations at the cellular level.

Inverse

Talkspace offers therapy & psychiatry from the comfort of your home

80% off of people in a study found Talkspace online therapy as effective as in-person sessions

Mic

Debra Shulkes obituary

Other lives: Editor, translator and advocate for ex-users and survivors of psychiatry

The Guardian - UK

Trauma of South Korea Halloween party tragedy is pervasive, expert says

As South Korea mourns the deaths of more than 150 people in a Halloween party crush, many people - even those not directly involved - are dealing with trauma and a search for answers that has at times blamed the victims, a psychiatry expert says.

Reuters

Commentary: Haunted asylums are a Halloween staple. Does the fictional gore undermine psychiatry’s good?

As a holiday of contrasts, Halloween celebrates sweetness and superstition — trick or treat. Traditions range from pumpkin carving and candy eating to the personification of werewolves and ghosts. Yet as adults seek thrills in haunted houses and horror movies, one common and disturbing motif is the “gorification” of the…

Tribune News Service

Fmr. Deutsche Bank CEO & Real Madrid's Toni Kroos Invest In A Psychedelics Company's $14M Funding Round

US and German-based HMNC Brain Health (HMNC Holding GmbH), a clinical stage biopharma company pioneering precision psychiatry, has raised nearly $14 million (EUR 14.3 million) in the closing of the first of two expected funding series, bringing the total capital raised to date to over $41 million (EUR 42.3 million.)…

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QIMR Berghofer challenges scientific community to use genetic links to mental health conditions to enhance treatments

Eske Derks of QIMR Berghofer is challenging the scientific community to deliver a new era of precision psychiatry through the "extraordinary genetic discoveries".

Los Angeles Times

LA County's first street psychiatrist treats patients where they live

LOS ANGELES — Before she met Dr. Shayan Rab, Diana Silveria was the daughter of Elvis Presley, hanging out with Lynyrd Skynyrd on a skid row sidewalk.

Inverse

Brain signatures tied to appetite could reveal new treatments for depression

A new study published in "JAMA Psychiatry" found a link between depression, appetite changes, and the brain's reward system.

The Conversation

Wounded souls: 75 years after India's Partition, survivors' trauma has still not been recognized

In his poignant, much-acclaimed short story “Toba Tek Singh,” Pakistani playwright Saadat Hasan Manto describes the plight of Bishan Singh, an inmate of the asylum in Lahore. In the story, set in a post-Partition era, the governments of India and Pakistan decide to exchange inmates: the Muslims among them are…

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Push to increase psychiatrist numbers as patients face lengthy waits to secure appointments

There are calls for an urgent increase to the psychiatry workforce as unprecedented demand forces patients to endure lengthy wait times for specialist treatment.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: I am California’s acting surgeon general. And I have bipolar disorder

In 2011 I was a third-year medical student at Harvard Medical School. I was on my psychiatry rotation — and I had a secret.

Tribune News Service

Faye Flam: Pharma overpromised on antidepressants

The Conversation

The Body Keeps the Score: how a bestselling book helps us understand trauma – but inflates the definition of it

In a new series, we look at books that have become cultural touchstones.

The Conversation

A clinical psychiatrist reveals how Indian women in Australia experience family violence – and how to combat it

Manjula Datta O’Connor is a clinical psychiatrist and chair of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Family Violence Psychiatry Network. She has a particular interest in the mental health experiences of migrant women affected by family violence. She has been supporting women in her clinical practice for…

Axios

The "psychiatrist's bible" is suddenly a surprise bestseller

Amid surging interest in mental health

ABC News

ADHD diagnosis wait times are being blown out by the pandemic, experts say

Despite it affecting one in 10 Australians, experts say there aren't enough specialists who can diagnose ADHD — and the pandemic has made waiting lists even longer.

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