Sat.May 31, 2025

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What Are Intrusive Thoughts?

My Psychiatry

Everyone has thoughts that pop into their mind unexpectedly. But when those thoughts are disturbing, unwanted, or feel completely out of character, they can be deeply unsettling. These are known as intrusive thoughts, and while they might feel alarming, they are actually quite common. Why Do People Have Intrusive Thoughts? Intrusive thoughts are sudden, involuntary thoughts or mental images that can be distressing.

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Living with mental illness: An unquenchable yearning | 2

Chipur

That dull, bone-deep ache - the unquenchable yearning - isnt going away without considered intervention. And its crucial that the work determines its genesis and legitimacy before handling acceptance and change. Living with mental illness: An unquenchable yearning - part 2: Lets roll.

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Resting-state functional connectivity of neural circuits associated with primary and secondary rewards linked to positive and negative symptoms of first-episode schizophrenia

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

Publication date: Available online 30 May 2025 Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry Author(s): Jing Shi, Huihui Yang, Hua Guo, Sijia Liua, Fengmei Fan, Hongzhen Fan, Huimei An, Shuping Tan, Fude Yang, Zhiren Wang

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Screen Time for Children Under Three: A Trigger for Virtual Autism?

Mad in America

I n 2017, if you googled the term virtual autism, you would get exactly two hits. One was my blog on Mad in America and the other was a paper (2017) by Romanian psychologist Dr. Marius Zamfir. Zamfir found that a high percentage of young children diagnosed with autism at a Romanian hospital had more than four hours per day of screen time before the age of two and a half.

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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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China’s 2025–2027 Mental Health Service Initiative: A Model for Global Mental Health Equity and Innovation

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

Publication date: Available online 30 May 2025 Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry Author(s): Yiyang Liu, Shanshan Liu, Hongguang Chen

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WPA Global Survey on Psychiatry in WPA Member Societies

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

Publication date: Available online 30 May 2025 Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry Author(s): Joo Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia, NG Roger, Helen Herrman, Afzal Javed

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