Fri.Jul 18, 2025

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Long Term Antipsychotic Use May Be Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Risk in Women With Schizophrenia

Psychiatric Times

Women with schizophrenia face increased breast cancer risks linked to long-term prolactin-raising antipsychotic use, highlighting the need for regular screenings and tailored treatment strategies.

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Starting Middle School  

Child Mind Intitute

My memory of my first day of middle school is visceral. Everything on my person was either from Staples or a frantic Kohl’s run the night before. Clutching my freshly-printed class schedule as a lifeline, I rushed through the double doors to find my locker (no more cubbies for me!) and my friends. I was immediately hit with the smell. An intense mixture of body odor, Axe body spray, Juicy Couture Viva La Juicy perfume, and ammonia.

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FDA Advisory Committee Votes Against Recommending Brexpiprazole Plus Sertraline for PTSD

Psychiatric Times

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The Trouble with Lived Experience: When Peer Support Compounds Trauma by Denying Abuse

Mad in America

A few years ago, before I became a therapist, I entered therapy for the first time. I had never taken psychiatric medication, never been diagnosed, and had never seen myself through a clinical lens. Although I had experienced a difficult and abusive childhood in Somalia, I came to understand that in my culture, trauma and childhood are not spoken about in the same psychological terms used in the West.

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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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Psychiatric Times Experts Weight in on FDA Advisory Decision for PTSD

Psychiatric Times

A trio of practitioners react to the FDA advisory committee's 10-1 vote against recommending approval of brexpiprazole (Rexulti) adjunctive to sertraline for adults with PTSD.

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Social Media as Group Therapy: Why We Confess to Strangers but Not Our Friends

Zencare

Published on July 18, 2025 by Zencare Team. Why Do We Share Our Deepest Secrets with Strangers Online? We’ve all done it — hit “post” on a late-night Reddit confession or typed out a raw TikTok caption that we’d never dare say out loud to our closest friends. So why is it easier to pour our hearts out to strangers on the internet than to the people we love?

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AI Therapy: The Reality of an Instant Therapist 

Clear Behavioral Health

Obtaining professional mental health support can be challenging. Not only is there currently a shortage of mental health professionals, but searching for and finding the right one is often a daunting experience. However, 22 percent of American adults have found some relief by using mental health chatbots as a therapeutic tool. Everyone’s question is why people are turning to AI for therapy, even with the potential drawbacks?

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Avoid These Post-5 PM Activities to Lower Alzheimer's Risk

Very Well Mind

Dementia and Alzheimer's (a form of dementia) are neurodegenerative conditions that are prevalent worldwide. The right prevention strategies, such as avoiding certain things before bedtime, can reduce our risk of developing these conditions. Learn what to avoid and do instead in order to protect your brain health.

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One Face, Many Places: The Development of Different Cortical Regions Responsible for Face Processing

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, columns about teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science offer advice and how-to guidance about teaching a particular area of research or topic in psychological science that has been the focus of an article in the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Science.

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Why You Suddenly Start Seeing the Same Thing Everywhere, According to Psychologists

Very Well Mind

The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, AKA the frequency illusion, happens when we notice something and it suddenly seems to be everywhere. Learn why it happens.

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Overturning Assumptions in Childhood Learning and Cognition

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Quick Take Emerging research is showing just how differently a child’s brain learns compared to an adult brain. Although children’s brains are not as developed as adults, the setback may be adaptive in certain ways. The universality of being able to switch between internal and external memory suggests that, in an educational setting, giving children access to external memory tools may not be detrimental.

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Our psychopathic climate of the times: How did it happen?

Chipur

he climate of the times: political activity, the media, and the verbal, written, and behavioral expressions of Joan and John Q. Public tell the tale. If you sense it, how would you describe it? For my money, it’s psychopathic. And how did it happen? Let’s talk.

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Still I Rise

Psychiatric Times

"Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.