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Phenotypic diversity from dogs to diseases

Real Psychiatry

This tree was constructed looking at 12 exons (8,080 base pairs (bp) and 4 introns (3029 bp). Each cladogram is constructed with Bayesian analysis generating the respective bootstrap values from Markov chain analysis and posterior probabilities (see legend for location). 2008 Jan;82(1):10-8. Indels are insertions-deletions.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

Vital for helping depressed people are therapist “personal characteristics” that produce a collaborative “relationship alliance,” which facilitates healing and energizes and motivates patients to take constructive actions. Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise.

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The Power of Journaling: What Science Says About the Benefits for Mental Health and Well-Being

Child Mind Intitute

Effects of constructive worry, imagery distraction, and gratitude interventions on sleep quality: A pilot trial. Boosted immunity: Writing about traumatic experiences can improve immune function by boosting lymphocyte activity, a key component of the immune system (Pennebaker, Kiecolt-Glaser, & Glaser, 1988; Stanton et al., Digdon, N.

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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

Mad in America

Moncrieff, 2008. It isnt just diagnostic processes that have problems the construction of diagnostic labels themselves has also been roundly criticised for lacking a scientific basis, and this has been acknowledged by many of the people actually involved in the creation of the labels. American Psychiatric Association. link] Masson, J.

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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

Mad in America

Either you must admit that you’re on honest person, weather pending, or you have to be flexible with social constructs like “sick” or “honest.” A 2008 paper pulled together 74 studies for the twelve leading antidepressants. 2008) Rush, John, Thase, Michael. 2008) Turner, Erick, et al. I’ll mention two. It gets worse.

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The Outer Workings of Interacting Minds

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

These bidirectional influences between the team and its individuals add complexity beyond standard individual-centric approaches to cognition but also offer the possibility that psychological scientists will be able to develop more sophisticated accounts of cognition than any of us could possibly have constructed on our own. Barnier, A.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

One of many psychiatrists exposed by 2008 Congressional hearings on psychiatry’s financial relationship with drug companies was Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Biederman—credited with creating pediatric bipolar disorder—who received $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007.