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The 2025 Summer Heatwave: Implications for Patients With Psychiatric Disorders

Psychiatric Times

The hypothalamus is our body's thermostat, and a lot of the neurotransmitters that we are touching on and working on in psychiatry affect the hypothalamus.” Ms Barbee has a passion to reduce the stigma around mental health and promoting increased access to mental health care and education of both clinicians and the general public.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

For instance: “Imagine neurotransmitter particles traversing a synaptic cleft and binding to postsynaptic receptors like boats in the water that then either purposefully or indiscriminately land at one dock versus another. Metaphor and anthropomorphism can help.

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Depression: Biological or Psychological?

Mad in America

These beliefs have been shaped by NIHs National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) and by psychiatrists, whose opinions regarding mental health care are trusted by the public. Put to the test, they were unable to demonstrate that the mental disorders are biological illnesses.

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Nonstimulant Therapies for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

Atomoxetine and viloxazine function as norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, targeting neurotransmitter systems involved in attention, distractibility, and response inhibition. These medications offer particular benefits for patients with comorbid conditions or those who cannot tolerate stimulant side effects.

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Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

Mad in America

You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience. So why do we call schizophrenia a mental disorder, but not believing in conspiracy theories?

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

Mad in America

Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? I embraced mental health support for many years because I found that it made me healthier. When I did manage to taper off a bit, I felt an immediate improvement in my health.