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Make America Healthy Again—What About Psychiatry?

Psychiatric Times

Daniel Morehead, MD, explores the resurgence of antipsychiatry sentiments and the importance of advocating for mental health amidst rising skepticism.

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Between Diagnoses and Dialogue: The Silent Conflict Between Psychiatry and Psychology

Mad in America

I n recent decades, mental health has become one of the most widely discussed issues in public discourse, health policies, and clinical practice. The explosion of psychiatric diagnoses, the exponential rise in the use of psychotropic medication, and the proliferation of narratives about psychological wellbeing are just some of the symptoms of this new centrality of emotional suffering in contemporary society.

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How to Stop the Intrusive Thought OCD and Anxiety Cycle Naturally

The Anxiety Guy

Today you will discover how to naturally stop the intrusive thought OCD and anxiety cycle. Learn powerful holistic strategies to calm your mind, break mental loops, and find lasting peace through the anxiety guy podcast. Enjoy! Have you ever found yourself stuck in your own head, overthinking, scanning your body for symptoms, and fearing the worst-case scenario before anything even happens?

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When help feels out of reach: mental health and the menstrual cycle

The Mental Elf

KCL MSc student Chiara Roux considers a survey study on help-seeking behaviours and experiences for mental health symptoms related to the menstrual cycle. The post When help feels out of reach: mental health and the menstrual cycle appeared first on National Elf Service.

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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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2025 APS Awards Ceremony: A Celebration of Excellence

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Please log in to view this content. Login APS honors members throughout their careers with the field’s most prestigious awards and recognitions. The 2025 APS Awards Ceremony recognizes recipients of the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship, William James Fellow Award, Mentor Award, and Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions.

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Phones Out, Focus In: Crafting Classroom Policies That Work for Everyone

Child Mind Intitute

By Michael P. Milham, MD, PhD Chief Science Officer, Child Mind Institute Across New York and the nation, schools are confronting a complex challenge: the urgent need for learning recovery, a deepening youth mental health crisis fueled in part by unfiltered social media access, and the constant presence of smartphones. Unchecked use of phones not only pulls students out of the classroom moment and negatively impacts learning, but can elevate stress, fuel social tensions, and expose young people

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ADHD Diagnosis Criteria

Psychiatric Times

Panelists discuss how the DSM-5-TR criteria for ADHD require at least 6 of 9 symptoms in either inattentive or hyperactive-impulsive domains, with inattentive presentations often going unrecognized especially in females and highly intelligent students.

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Is Your Child Showing Signs of Pathological Demand Avoidance?

ADDitude

Pathological demand avoidance (PDA), also known as pervasive or persistent drive for autonomy, is a behavioral profile characterized by intense and extreme resistance to, and avoidance of, everyday demands. In the context of PDA, what counts as a demand extends beyond direct instructions like “clean your room.” The common, trivial requirements and expectations of daily living — from getting dressed for school and responding to a greeting, to following the body’s internal cues to eat and sleep —

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ADHD in Elementary School Age Child: Patient Case 1

Psychiatric Times

Panelists discuss how ADHD presents in a 10-year-old boy with combined presentation symptoms, emphasizing the importance of seeing difficulties across multiple settings and noting the genetic component when family history is present.

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Keynote Address: Developmental Plasticity and Language Reorganization After Pediatric Stroke

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Please log in to view this content. Login Speaker: Elissa Newport , Georgetown University It is well known that the adult brain is highly lateralized for language: The left hemisphere is primarily responsible for sentence processing, the right hemisphere for processing emotion and intonation. However, many have suggested that there is plasticity for language in early life, allowing children to acquire language by using other cortical regions when left hemisphere language areas are damaged.

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Why Social Media Can’t Replace a Real Therapist

Zencare

Published on June 9, 2025 by Zencare Team. Written by Alise Lindsey, LMHC, LPC, MEd, MA Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. It kind of started with WebMD’s symptom checker. You get an ache or pain, so you log in your symptoms and suddenly you are obsessed with the worse case scenarios. I know I’ve diagnosed myself with a rare genetic disease a time or two only to discover it’s just a gas.

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‘A Big Win’: Dubious Statistical Results Are Becoming Less Common In Psychology

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

More than a decade after psychologists began to seriously wrestle with questions about the rigor and reliability of their work, there are signals that the field is improving. A recent analysis of 240,355 psychology papers reports that “fragile” statistical results—a potential marker of poor research practices or samples that are too small—decreased substantially between 2004 and 2024.

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Registrar – Perinatal Psychiatry

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Perinatal Psychiatry Department, Coombe Hospital Job Posted: Monday, 9 June 2025 Deadline: Noon Friday, 20 June 2025 Please note that this job is NOT approved as a College recognised training post at this time. REGISTRAR/ SENIOR REGISTRAR IN PSYCHIATRY This position is within the Perinatal Psychiatry Department reporting to the Consultant Psychiatrists Essential Qualifications Be a Medical Practitioner who is registered other than provisionally in the General Register of Medical Practitioners.

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Psychological Science and Society Plenary Panel Session: Collective Cognition

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Please log in to view this content. Login Chair: APS President Randi C. Martin , Rice University Moderator: Angela Gutchess , Brandeis University Speakers: Suparna Rajaram , Stony Brook University, The State University of New York, Robert L. Goldstone , Indiana University Bloomington, and Nancy J. Cooke , Arizona State University This panel brings together speakers carrying out novel research to address how group interaction influences cognitive processing, going beyond the typical approach of s

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Researchers: “We Do Not Suggest” Antipsychotics for Depression

Mad in America

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved several antipsychotic drugs as an augmentation strategy for “treatment-resistant depression,” including aripiprazole (Abilify), quetiapine (Seroquel), and olanzapine (Zyprexa). But in a new study , researchers found that these drugs were no better than trying another antidepressant—and that they come with increased risk of death.

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APS-David Myers Distinguished Lecture on the Science and Craft of Teaching Psychological Science: Know Thy Impact: Major Findings Relating to the Science and Craft of Teaching Psychological Science

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Please log in to view this content. Login Speaker: John Hattie, University of Melbourne This lecture summarizes findings from over 2,500 meta-analyses, highlighting four key claims: fostering a positive class climate, empowering students to drive their learning, engaging teachers in evaluating their impact, and building collective teacher responsibility for assessing the fidelity and impact of teaching practices.

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Inclusivity Spotlight: The More You Know: Essential Truths for Social Justice Research, Practice, and Policy

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Please log in to view this content. Login Speaker: Charles Barrett , Loudoun County Public Schools Moderator: Kalynda Smith , North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University This session highlights principles to effectively engage in research, practice, and policy that produces equitable outcomes. Informed by his career as a school psychologist, Charles Barrett discusses adopting a systems orientation; challenging ourselves and others; looking beyond quantitative data; centering tho

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Plenary Panel Session: Human Language and Thought in the Era of Large Language Models

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Please log in to view this content. Login Chair: APS President Randi C. Martin , Rice University Moderator : L. Robert Slevc , University of Maryland, College Park Speakers: Alexander Huth , The University of Texas at Austin, Laura Gwilliams , Stanford University, and Anna Ivanova , Georgia Institute of Technology This panel brings together leading early career voices whose work engages with the relationship between human language and LLMs.

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Morning Anxiety Is Real. Here’s What To Do About It.

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Sometimes it can feel like whatever is stressing you out — that deadline, a big meeting, the news cycle — is showing up first thing in the morning. You may wake up with a pit already forming in your stomach and your anxiety high before you even get out of bed. … People who are anxious can also have an increased cortisol waking response but cortisol doesn’t cause morning anxiety, according to Doug Mennin , a professor of clinical psychology at Teachers College Columbia University.

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