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Web-based Parent Training Intervention for Childhood Disruptive Behaviour Successful in Primary Health Care
A programme developed for the early detection of children’s disruptive behaviour and low-threshold digital parent training intervention was successfully transferred to child health clinics in primary health care, shows a new Finnish study. In addition, the programme’s low discontinuation rate implies that parents experienced digitally implemented intervention as both user-friendly and easily accessible. This is the first study on the implementation of an online psychosocial treatment in paediatric primary health care which is based on population screening.
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Can A Biomarker For Childhood Trauma Predict Severe Psychiatric Disease In Adulthood?
A new study in Translational Psychiatry sought to elucidate whether reduced telomere length (TL) is associated with childhood trauma in those with schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). Telomeres are the genetic material at the end of chromosomes that shorten in most human tissues with the wear and tear of aging. When they are excessively minimized, they don’t work as well and adversely impact a tissue’s ability to repair itself. Evidence shows a link between chronic stress and childhood trauma and accelerated TL shortening in otherwise healthy people (HC).
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Chronic Schizophrenia Put Into Remission Without Medication
New research suggests ketogenic diet may play a role in treating schizophrenia.
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Study of 6 Million People With Mental Disorders Reveals a New Health Risk
New studies reveal that most psychiatric illnesses are related to one another. Tracing these connections, like the mapping of a river system, promises to help define the main cause of these disorders and the drugs that could alleviate their symptoms. The Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register is an enormous treasure trove of clinical data documenting every hospitalization for mental illness in Denmark over the course of 16 years.
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Inside The Fragmented Minds of People With Dissociative Identity Disorder
The condition was formerly known as “multiple personality disorder,” and the medical field is still in disagreement on whether it is real. But does ‘real’ matter when a diagnosis can help? By Shayla Love.
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Should Mental Disorders Have Names?
After nearly a century of effort, psychiatry's best diagnoses leave much to be desired
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There Is No Such Thing as Conscious Thought
Philosopher Peter Carruthers insists that conscious thought, judgment and volition are illusions. They arise from processes of which we are forever unaware
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Study: Psychopaths are attracted to other psychopaths
New psychology research suggests that most people do not view psychopathic personality traits as particularly desirable in a romantic partner. But the ...
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Is Your Gut Making You Depressed or Anxious?
Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen goes straight for the gut with three surprising mind-gut connections.
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Sent to a Hospital, But Locked in Prison
They’re not charged with a crime, but these patients still end up in jumpsuits and solitary. By Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge, Ashley Nerbovig.
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What It’s Like to Trip on the Most Potent Magic Mushroom
"I felt as though I were communing directly with a plant for the first time."
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The truth about Hans Asperger’s Nazi collusion
Simon Baron-Cohen absorbs the grave revelations in a study on a paediatrician enmeshed in autism’s history.
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A Mental Disease by Any Other Name
For Frank Russell, reinterpreting his schizophrenia as shamanism helped his symptoms. By Susie Neilson.
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How Psychopaths See the World
It’s not that they can’t consider other people’s perspectives. It’s that they don’t do so automatically.
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We Asked Experts How to Let Go of Grudges
Advice to get you over the hurdles holding you back.
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Goldwater Rule 'gagging' psychiatrists no longer relevant, analysis finds
The rationale for the Goldwater Rule — which prohibits psychiatrists from publicly commenting on the mental health of public figures they have not examined in person — does not hold up to current scientific scrutiny, a new analysis finds.Perspectives on Psychological Science is publishing the analysis, which concludes that the Goldwater Rule is not well-supported scientifically and is outdated in today’s media-saturated environment. A preprint of the article is available online.
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Raped By Carl Jung, Then Murdered by the Nazis
But the theft and erasure of Sabina Spielrein’s intellectual legacy by the psychoanalytic establishment may be an even more troubling crime. By Phyllis Chesler.
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What is bipolar disorder? - Helen M. Farrell
The word bipolar means ‘two extremes.’ For the many millions experiencing bipolar disorder around the world, life is split between two different realities: elation and depression. So what causes this disorder? And can it be treated? Helen M. Farrell describes the root causes and treatments for bipolar disorder. Lesson by Helen M Farrell, animation by Uncle Ginger.
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Neurological syndromes which can be mistaken for psychiatric conditions.
Neurology has an especially close relationship with psychology and psychiatry, as all three disciplines focus on the functions and disorders of a single organ, the brain.
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The Capgras Delusion
Those who experience the Capgras Delusion believe that people in their lives have been substituted by doppelgangers. By Alane Lim.
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