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How the Parasympathetic Nervous System Influences Your Mental Health

Very Well Mind

The parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS) helps you body relax and is essential for recovering from stress. Here's why it's so important and how to activate yours.

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Revenge Bedtime Procrastination: The Silent Epidemic Among Youngsters

Harmony United Psychiatric Care

Midnight has arrived. Even when your body begs for rest, and your eyes are heavy, you’re still scrolling, viewing, or playing gamesanything other than giving in to sleep. You’re not alone if this sounds familiar to you.

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“I Was Weighed Down by My Feelings of Inadequacy”

ADDitude

Actor Busy Philipps, 45, recently shared her ADHD diagnosis a revelation that came as her young daughter was being evaluated and diagnosed. Philipps realized that she checked all the boxes for the condition too. Despite earning the nickname Busy as a child because she rarely stopped moving, she had long dismissed her ADHD symptoms as personal weaknesses.

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Cuomo Says New York Has a Mental Health Crisis. Here’s His Plan.

The New York Times -- Mental Health

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will release a proposal to remove more mentally ill people from the streets to address fears about public safety.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Phenotypic diversity from dogs to diseases

Real Psychiatry

Whether you are trying to keep your neighbors German shepherd out of your yard or avoiding that biting Chihuahua on your way to the mail boxes people have no problem identifying domestic dogs. Most can tell they are not foxes, wolves, or coyotes. There are approximately 400 different domestic dog breeds worldwide but they all have the same taxonomic classification.

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“The Broken Mechanical Wind-up Bird”: A Philosophical Memoir

Psychiatric Times

On the border between philosophy and psychiatry.

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Switching Med Formulations Is Safe—With Caveats

Psychiatry Online

Psychiatric News, Ahead of Print.

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The Complex Relationship Between Sleep and Psychiatric Disorders

Psychiatric Times

What is the nature of the intricate relationship between sleep disorders and psychiatric conditions?

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Exhausted by Expectations? Salt Lake Parents, It’s Time to Breathe

Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

Exhausted by Expectations? Salt Lake Parents, Its Time to Breathe The house is spotless, the school reports are glowing, the holidays are captured in perfect framesbut when the doors close and the lights dim, are you truly okay? If youre a parent living in Salt Lake, Kolkata, juggling your career, your childs future, and the invisible pressure to be everything for everyone, this message is just for you.

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Our Humanitarian Award One Year Later

Psychiatric Times

H. Steven Moffic, MD, explores the intersection of humanitarian needs and mental health, advocating for compassion amidst global crises and personal challenges.

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Feeling Drained or Disconnected? Kolkata’s best Psychiatrist Can Help

Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

Feeling Drained or Disconnected? Kolkatas best Psychiatrist Can Help Salt Lake, Kolkata. Its a name that evokes progress, poise, and purpose. From the thriving technology hubs in Sector V to the graceful homes of professionals and entrepreneurs, this is where dreams are built, businesses flourish, and achievements are the norm. A place where ambition meets elegance.

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Dementia Prevention: Pipe Dream vs Possibility

Psychiatric Times

Explore effective strategies for dementia risk reduction and understand the importance of early cognitive assessments in aging adults.

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Your Brain is Biased to Negativity. Here’s How to be More Positive

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Your co-worker surprised you with a chocolate chip cookie, but a teammate took a dig at your report. As the day goes on, youre more likely to dwell on the criticism than the act of kindness. Negative events feel more psychologically intense than positive ones, thanks to a cognitive tendency called the negativity bias. Thats true even when events are of equal weight. … If youre walking to get water and you encounter a tiger, its a great idea to stay focused on the tiger and not on the prett

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Articles “Syphilis exotique. Comment la médecine a fait de la syphilis une maladie dermatologique «bénigne» durant la colonisation (France, 1900–1940)” by Guillaume Linte & “«Mahomet Implanted a Real Neuropathic State in the Brains of Believers»: North African Masculinities and Colonial Psychiatry in the Writings of Maurice Boigey” by Nina Studer

History Psychiatry

Dear Hmadness readers,Two articles have been published in the journal Schweizerische Zeitschrift fr Geschichte. The first is titled “Exotic Syphilis.… Read more Articles “Syphilis exotique.

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The Hidden Forces Shaping Your Choices

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Every day, we make countless choicesbut are these decisions guided by desire or design? This hour, TED speakers on what shapes the food we eat, how we power our homes, and how we communicate. Guests include food systems expert Sarah Lake, infrastructure engineer Deb Chachra, cross-cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand , urban planner Jeff Speck, and Tempe resident Ignacio Delgadillo.

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Are Psychiatrists More Mad Than Their Patients?

Mad in America

T his question is not a joke. It has come up repeatedly when I discuss how absurdly harmful mainstream psychiatry is with like-minded colleagues, e.g. critical psychiatrists or psychologists. Madness is characterised by delusions. An Oxford dictionary defined delusion as an idiosyncratic belief or impression maintained despite being contradicted by reality or rational argument.

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It’s Time to Prioritize ADHD Research Focusing on Women

ADDitude

Less than 1% of published ADHD research is dedicated to women patients. This inequity is maddening, but less shocking when you consider the fact that ADHD was regarded as a strictly childhood disorder just 20 years ago. ADHD in adults did not exist, according to medical literature published a generation ago. During my psychiatry residency from 1987 to 1991, I only treated one adult with ADHD, a young man who was having difficulty in his medical school classes.

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Quitting Is Strength: Changing the Narrative on Tobacco Use in the Military

National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

What if the greatest threat to our veterans health isnt on the battlefield, but in their pockets? For decades, tobacco companies worked hard to associate their products with military service. They handed out free cigarettes to troops during wartime. They sponsored events on military bases. They sold products at steep discounts in commissaries and exchanges.

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TIFT #124: Psychotherapy's Amazing Superpower

How Psychiatry Works

Recently, I was working with clients searching for the antidotes to their troublesome inner truths. We were struggling to find the flaw in those truths. Each one boiled down to the fear that something really bad could happen. The problem was that, while those bad things from the past were not likely to be repeated, it was not impossible. For these anxious people, present fears might be more intense due to genetics, but they were also fueled by real experiences from childhood.

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Szasz and The Manufacture of Madness Today

Mad in America

From Meer : “In 1970, Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry emeritus at State University of New York, published his seminal work, The Manufacture of Madness. The book traces the 13th-century origins of how the belief in witchcraft led to regrettable social actions and the emergence of the Inquisition (which lasted for four centuries). The stated objective of the organized movement that emerged was to protect society from the harm, danger, and madness that the witch represented.