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The 2025 Summer Heatwave: Implications for Patients With Psychiatric Disorders

Psychiatric Times

The hypothalamus is our body's thermostat, and a lot of the neurotransmitters that we are touching on and working on in psychiatry affect the hypothalamus.” Psychiatric medications can either make us sweat to excess, reduce our ability to sweat, or even indirectly affect our body's thermostat,” Barbee said she tells patients.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

For instance: “Imagine neurotransmitter particles traversing a synaptic cleft and binding to postsynaptic receptors like boats in the water that then either purposefully or indiscriminately land at one dock versus another. Author(s): Joseph F. Goldberg, MD , Stephen M. Metaphor and anthropomorphism can help.

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Nonstimulant Therapies for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

Atomoxetine and viloxazine function as norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, targeting neurotransmitter systems involved in attention, distractibility, and response inhibition. These medications offer particular benefits for patients with comorbid conditions or those who cannot tolerate stimulant side effects.

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“Feel Good” Chemical Serotonin Signals Future Rewards to Brain: Study

ADDitude

April 23, 2025 Serotonin neurons signal to the brain the expected value of near-future rewards, a discovery that helps to clarify the neurotransmitter’s complex role in regulating mood, learning, and more, according to a new study in Nature. Nature (2025). A prospective code for value in the serotonin system. Bujalski, P.,

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Are Psychiatrists More Mad Than Their Patients?

Mad in America

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. Depressive and bipolar disorders: patients attitudes and beliefs towards depression and antidepressants.

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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

Mad in America

Joanna Moncrieff, Chemically Imbalanced (2025) E stablishment psychiatry has recently switched the biological cause of mental illness from a chemical imbalance to a brain circuitry defect. Establishment psychiatry has shown this same unscientific thinking in its manufacturing of other biological theories of mental illness.

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It's Okay to Need Medication for Mental Health Treatment

Zencare

Published on January 22, 2025 by Zencare Team. There are 298 mental health conditions currently recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition-TR, which is the standard reference for clinical practice among trained, licensed mental health professionals, in the US.