Catherine Malabou's What Should We Do With Our Brain? argues that "we have failed to understand ourselves because we have failed to acknowledge recent scientific discoveries, particularly 'plasticity,' or the brain's ability to change."
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At the end of his career, Dr. Robert L.Spitzer has reached a painful conclusion: “I believe,” he wrote in a letter, “I owe the gay community an apology.”... 
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Psychiatrists have long claimed that gardens hold healing powers for mental illness. Now, scientists are exploring a new field called horticultural therapy for everyone from troubled youth to veterans.
Rosie Mcguire's comment,
March 4, 2013 12:36 AM
Wow, thats new, healing power for mental illness, GREAT!
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As is slowly becoming apparent, work from embodied/embedded cognitive science, strongly suggests that to properly understand cognition, studying the “naked” brain will not suffice. Thus, adopting the metaphysics of reductionism as a theoretical cornerstone of one’s framework, is most likely to lead to problems down the line. I think, that the only way for psychiatry to develop is to firstly abandon neurobiological reductionism and embrace an alternative, more holistic metaphysics. Once this is done, then better sense can be made of psychopharmacology and neuroimaging technologies. Until then, I think they will simply continue to mislead the public.
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A multi-media production with a musical narrative set in the day room of a psychiatric hospital, Inside a Quiet Mind brought together Cambridge Neuroscientists and mental health service users to perform side by side, in this way breaking conventional barriers that exist between the two groups.
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This post is part of a Nature Blog Focus on hallucinogenic drugs in medicine and mental health, inspired by a recent Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper, The neurobiology of psychedelic drugs: implications for the treatment of mood disorders, by...
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Virginia Woolf, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe—teetering on the thin line between madness and genius, they contributed to the world some of the greatest works of literature at the cost of their own mental vitality. Even they suspected a link between the moments of crystal clear lucidity amongst their disordered emotions. Is science finally gaining ground on this dark connection?
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Sexual sadism is a psychiatric disorder in which sexual pleasure is derived from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others. While the psychological and forensic aspects of sexual sadism have been well characterized, little is known about the neurocognitive circuitry associated with the disorder
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Millions of healthy people - including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes - may be wrongly labeled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists complained on Thursday.
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When a patient afflicted with schizophrenia hears inner voices something is taking place inside the brain that prevents the individual from perceiving real voices. A simple electronic application may help the patient learn to shift focus. Via Dimitris Agorastos
jewell Moss's curator insight,
March 10, 2014 8:03 PM
So interesting how the mind works, we are coming so close to discovering the ilnesses of the mind, and how to prevent it. Read on! #Schizophrenia
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These are the “culture-bound syndromes”: mental illnesses that psychiatrists officially acknowledge occur only within a particular society. Depending on whom you ask, the notion that some cultures have their own ways of going crazy is either the ultimate in cultural sensitivity or the ultimate in Western condescension. (...) To these critics, *the very notion of a “culture-bound illness” is an outdated relic from the days of European empires*.
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An operation to control epilepsy leaves Karen Byrne with no control of her left hand, a condition known as Alien Hand Syndrome.
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