Fri.May 30, 2025

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Alan Cassels: Are We Looking In The Right Place For Answers To Violent Attacks?

Mad in America

From The New Westminster Times : “In the aftermath of one of the worst days in the history of Vancouver, a recent Canadian Press headline stated the obvious: Eby warns against jumping to conclusions about Lapu-Lapu suspect’s care before alleged attack. “ Wise adviceexcept, when it comes to psychiatric medications and acts of violence, silence and denial only fuel dangerous assumptions.

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Singing to babies improves their mood

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

Singing to your infant can significantly boost the baby's mood, according to a recent study. Around the world and across cultures, singing to babies seems to come instinctively to caregivers. Now, new findings support that singing is an easy, safe, and free way to help improve the mental well-being of infants. Because improved mood in infancy is associated with a greater quality of life for both parents and babies, this in turn has benefits for the health of the entire family, the researchers sa

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How the Therapy Generation Chose to Be Childless

The New York Times -- Mental Health

Are millennials fears of failing their children outweighing their desire to have them?

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“As Inclusion Disappears, My Mask Reappears”

ADDitude

May 30, 2025 Many of us with ADHD, autism, and other forms of neurodivergence only started to bring our whole selves to work quite recently. As a result of neurodiversity training and DEI efforts, we began to unmask. We spoke more openly about executive dysfunction and sensory needs. We asked for accommodations, formally and informally. But today, as DEI programs fade and inclusion efforts stall, many of us feel a familiar pressure returning.

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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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When the Body Gets Stuck in Survival Mode

The Anxiety Guy

Sometimes its not that youre unmotivated, lazy, or broken. Sometimes your body is just stuck in survival mode and its doing its best to protect you. This can look like chronic fatigue. That heavy, hard-to-lift fog that no amount of rest seems to fix. It can show up as anxiety, where your heart races without warning, or your chest tightens before youve even gotten out of bed.

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Should You Share Your Location With Your Partner?

Very Well Mind

Location sharing makes it possible to know your partner's every movebut is it a good move for your relationship to have it turned on at all times?

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The Police Can’t Solve Every Problem

The New York Times -- Mental Health

More and more communities have concluded that the police cant be expected to solve every problem and are shifting some of the load to others.

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NIH Autism Database Sparks Concern of Privacy Violations, Discrimination

ADDitude

May 31, 2025 Six weeks ago, the autistic community sounded the alarm when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., called autism a “preventable disease” caused by unknown “environmental toxins,” and vowed to root out its causes within six months. Shortly thereafter, the head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would begin amassing private medical records from commercial and federal databases, including those operated by the

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A Guide for Child Mental Health: New Book Edited by Leaders in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Psychiatric Times

Discover essential insights for diagnosing and treating child mental health issues in the DSM-5-TR Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health, a vital resource for clinicians.

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Why Nutritional Psychiatry Is the Future of Mental Health Treatment: Exploring the Food-Mood Connection

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

In recent years, the growing field of nutritional psychiatry has been gaining serious attention, and for good reason. This emerging discipline explores the powerful relationship between what we eat and how we feel, suggesting that our diets play a far greater role in mental health treatment than previously believed. If youve ever noticed how a sugar crash affects your mood or how a balanced meal makes you feel more alert, youve experienced the food-mood connection firsthand.

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Insights From the 2025 APA Annual Meeting

Psychiatric Times

Discover key insights from the APA Annual Meeting, highlighting advancements in lifestyle psychiatry, ADHD treatment, and innovative suicide prevention models.

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How Young Children’s Play Promotes Healthy Development

Child Mind Intitute

For preschoolers and kindergarteners, play is all about having fun! Play is also a vehicle for learning, and it has tremendous benefits for childrens development. Through play, children develop their cognitive, social, emotional, physical, creative, and language skills. The fun aspect of play is important, too. Happiness, sometimes referred to as subjective well-being, is a key ingredient of childrens overall well-being.

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The Hinge of Spring

Psychiatric Times

"The jackrabbit is a mild herbivore grazing the desert floor, quietly abridging spring.

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Press Statement: College welcomes launch of National Model of Care for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Read the press statement in full below or via PDF here. Read Dr Lorcan Martin’s full address at the launch on 29 May on the College blog here. The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland welcomes todays launch of Irelands first national Model of Care for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (CLP) by Minister for Mental Health, Mary Butler TD. The new model of care marks a vital step forward in the provision of integrated, person-centred mental health care within acute hospital settings.

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The association between fertility gap and depression among Chinese women in the three-child policy era: a national cross-sectional study

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

Publication date: Available online 29 May 2025 Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry Author(s): Xuanjun Li, Lu Gram, Yeqing Zhang, Jie Deng, Yaping Wang, Wenxin Yan, Liyuan Tao, Jue Liu

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DEI Concerns in Psychiatric Organizations

Psychiatric Times

Psychiatric professionals express concern over the impact of federal changes on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in mental health care.

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MPS News: June 2025

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

MPS News: June 2025 In this Issue MOORE Equity 5K MPS Team MPS Member Directory Ad Rate MPS Member Survey Become an APA Fellow Wonodi Award Donations 2025-26 MPS Committee Chairs MPS Orioles Game Maryland News New Bills Signed Into Law MedChi Working with Members Medicare Updates 2025 QPP Exception Application Member Accomplishments

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May in Review: Updates on the Psychiatric Treatment Pipeline

Psychiatric Times

Check out the pipeline updates from May!

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You’re Not Crazy

Mad in America

REQUEST FOR RECEPTION OF PATIENT INTO A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL Please receive Sylvie Raymonde Leber for observation and treatment into the psychiatric hospital of which you are Superintendent for a period of 21 days subject to the provision of the Mental Health Act 1959. Date: 13.4.1972 From documents obtained via F.O.I. on 13/8/2021 I d been wandering around Melbourne for days visiting friends and crashing with them while in a strange and often delusional mental state.