ADDitude

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

An investigation, published in 2021 in the Journal of Affective Disorders , of 5,872 cases and 43,862 controls that examined 22,028 genes, reported that the study “fails to identify genes influencing the probability of developing a mood disorder” and “no gene or gene set produced a statistically significant result.” Genes and depression?

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Mad in America

APRIL 19, 2025

In a recent article, Turkheimer and Greer critiqued the overblown conclusions drawn from a large, long-running, high-profile genetic study, Spit For Science (S4S). They add, Most of the papers ignore the tiny effects, reaching optimistic conclusions about the prospects for future genetic explanations of alcohol use.

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Solara Mental Health

AUGUST 16, 2021

This highly focused mental state is what Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls flow. Retrieved August 16, 2021, from [link] There are many ways to describe the trance-like focus an athlete or an artist goes into during competition: fierce focus, in the zone, locked in, obsessed, complete immersion.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 18, 2025

Studies in Australia and the United States followed individuals with subthreshold psychotic symptoms and functional decline, along with a genetic risk for schizophrenia, over time. The DSM-5 task force concluded that there was not enough evidence to justify incorporating APS as an official mental disorder diagnosis in Section II.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

Shutterstock Generously contributed by Daria and Dmitri Bukhman of Bukhman Philanthropies, the gift will bolster Oxford’s pioneering research and help expand mindfulness-based cognitive therapy – an evidence-based approach that helps people recover from depression, enjoy mental health and flourish.

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Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

Establishment psychiatry does acknowledge that emotional suffering and behavioral disturbanceswhat it calls mental illnesseshave biological-psychological-social roots. medical schools. Worldwide, there are parallels to U.S. Iatrogenesis , which is defined as illness or injury caused by medical treatment.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Searching for the Psychiatric Yeti: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic In January, Peter Simons wrote that the decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. Nor have any new treatments become available from this research.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 24, 2025

Professor Cathy Creswell , from Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology and lead for the NIHR ARC OxTV’s mental health across the life course theme, recently visited Chile to establish the project. In February 2023, it was recommended for use in the NHS by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 19, 2025

I was tremendously excited at the launch to see the latest data in patients with Parkinson’s disease and in children.’ Search NIHR OXFORD HEALTH BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE NEWS Please follow the link below to read the news on the NIHR BRC website.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Within this, some parts of the neurodiversity movement take an uncritical or neutral perspective on the validity of psychiatric diagnoses such as—but not limited to—ASD and ADHD, backed up by unsubstantiated claims about biological and genetic causal factors. This heterogeneity makes it difficult to generalise.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi.

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ADDitude

MARCH 18, 2025

As an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the CDC falls under the jurisdiction of U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. The conversation must shift to the public health issues that actually affect the autism community: access, affordability, and quality of healthcare services. Kennedy, Jr., 6 A study of 3.5

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Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

2 Or you are told you have a lack of insight into your disease, which is a symptom of your mental illness, a catch-22 situation from which there is no escape. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Health issued a licence to kill. Depression and antidepressants in Australia and beyond: a critical public health analysis (PhD thesis).

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

668 A WHO study of 640 depressed patients found that those treated with medication had worse general health and were more likely to still be mentally ill than those who weren’t treated at the end of one year. On Whitaker’s Mad in America website there are two more reviews of Insel’s book. They used the UFO trick.

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Mad in America

JULY 6, 2024

Premise In our information we always emphasize that psychotropic drugs do not have a specific action on mental problems or psychopathology, but only on their symptoms. Essentially, the development of this hypersensitivity can cause abnormal reactions when the same drug or a different drug is reintroduced.

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ADDitude

MAY 18, 2025

Similar results were found in a 2024 systematic review of 55 studies investigating the role of pubertal hormones on mental health conditions. The review concluded that most of the studies that exist on hormones and mental health outcomes were at high risk for bias and involved many confounding factors. J Health Soc Behav.

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Clear Behavioral Health

APRIL 2, 2025

The number of individuals who died from an overdose in the USA in 2021 was a record high of 106,699 [4]. Genetic predisposition, a history of trauma, mental health disorders, and even the accessibility of opioids all contribute to an individuals vulnerability to addiction. What is an Opioid Addiction ?

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. In USA, about 70,000 people were killed in 2021 by an overdose of a synthetic opioid. Deadly medicines and organised crime: How big pharma has corrupted health care. of patients treated for one year.

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ADDitude

APRIL 16, 2025

and suggested that the diagnosis of ADHD was arbitrary because it relies not on a biomarkers or genetic tests, but on a trained clinicians careful review of patients self-reported and observed symptoms in several settings. Tough dismissed the lifelong work of esteemed ADHD researcher Russell Barkley, Ph.D. , None was granted.)

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