Asking questions about meaning and meaningfulness in psychiatry is important. A new paper by John Krystal et al., "Psychedelics and the neurobiology of meaningfulness." biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S2451-…

Hannah Arendt on the academic "publish or perish." #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #academia

Eiko Fried "The sunlight is just beginning". "This is the most exciting scientific time in the entire history of...psychiatry... We have been operating in..the dark... The sunlight is...just beginning..." - Dr. John Krystal youtube.com/watch?v=1igJRZ…

#Ketamine business story: "It is critical that inventions funded with taxpayer money be fully and timely disclosed to the government..." Yale University and Its Professor Agree to Pay $1.5 Million For Failure to Share Patent Royalties with VA justice.gov/opa/pr/yale-un…

Thank you, Psychiatric Times, for making this article your cover story for the month and raising awareness about the neuropsychiatric impacts of plastics pollution to my colleagues psychiatrictimes.com/view/the-plast…

#GlobalWarming: #Rome -"The #rainfall of this intensity was completely unexpected and had not been predicted by any #weather forecast," bluewin.ch/en/news/severe…

"He began his march to the Kremlin, where he wanted to perform #exorcisms on Vladimir Putin... The last march to Moscow [in 2021] by #Gabyshev ended with him being sent to a closed psychiatric ward..where he reportedly remains to this day." msn.com/en-us/news/wor…

"No clinical trials and safety evaluations have studied #GLP1 agonist use among children, yet data shows that these drugs have been used in children as young as 6 years old...Overprescription has been particularly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry" journals.lww.com/jphmp/citation…

There are two kind of therapists. Those who think they already know how to help you, and those who come to discover, with you, how to help you. Choose wisely.*

America’s New Climate Delusion "The U.S. could sink billions into curbing emissions without altering the fate of the places #climatechange affects most." - great reporting by Zoë Schlanger theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

‘Better than medication’: prescribing nature works, project shows "The prescribing of activities in nature to tackle mental ill health has benefited thousands of people across England, a government-backed project has shown." theguardian.com/environment/ar…

September is the #SuicidePreventionMonth. CNN, in their '5 things you should know about suicide', quoted today my conversation with Kristen Rogers. cnn.com/2024/09/04/hea…

Nature: "What is the hottest temperature humans can survive?...The threshold for survival in heat is lower than thought" nature.com/articles/d4158….

I've seen many kids taking several psychiatric meds at a time. The most common reason for prescribing clinicians to be hesitant to prevent polypharmacy was a lack of knowledge and fear that the patient may "get worse." Safe deprescribing is a part of knowledge about prescribing.

"The father of the [14-year-old] mass shooting suspect accused of killing four people at #ApalacheeHighSchool..., told investigators this week he had purchased the gun used in the killings as a holiday present for his son..." #Parenting in #America 💔 cnn.com/2024/09/05/us/…

"No one is listening to the data."

"#Snapchat is a 'breeding ground' for predators seeking to collect sexually explicit images of children and extort them, the state of New Mexico argues in a lawsuit filed Wednesday evening against the popular social app’s owner, Snap." washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

#ClimateCrisis is a symptom of a more profound problem, #EcologicalOvershoot, and related #OverConsumption. Other symptoms of the overshoot are #BiodiversityLoss, #EnvironmentalPolution, #HabitatLoss, etc. Any #ClimateAction would be partial without addressing the overshoot.

#BiodiversityLoss impacts human health: "Bats..prey on agricultural..pests... Farmers compensated for bat decline by increasing... insecticide use... Increase in insecticide use..adversely affected health—human infant mortality increased by 7.9%." science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

At the core of #PlanetaryCrisis is humanity's crisis, humanity that keeps destroying its environment. "Amid an onslaught of lethal heat, surging disease, and record-breaking storms, global temperatures this summer climbed to the highest levels on record." washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…