Dan Blonigen

Associate Professor, Stanford School of Medicine. Research Career Scientist, VA Palo Alto. Tweets are my personal opinions

[Edge @SomethingEra2]

Vikings fans are easily the most dedicated and driven fans in the league, I dont even think thats bias to say

This is insane

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

Are you depressed? Or are you just [lists symptoms of depression]

[Dan Blonigen @BlonigenDaniel]

@NTFabiano This is patently false. Behavioral activation is a foundational treatment for depression that any therapist would recommend. Exercise is a standard part of behavioral activation. The statement that clinicians aren’t trained in this is completely disingenuous.

[RockyMountain MIRECC @RMIRECC]

New publication in BMC Psychology

Dialectical behavior therapy for justice-involved Veterans: randomized clinical trial protocol comparing treatment approaches for Veterans with criminal-legal involvement

Read the publication for full details
https://t.co/auYfqhie5V

[Huberman Lab Clips @HLPClips]

How to talk to someone about addiction:

"Convey optimism. There are probably 24 million Americans in recovery. We just don't notice them because someone in recovery looks like anybody else."

"It's much much easier to pull out before you've burned your life down around you."

"A good clinician will say, 'Why would you want to do that?' If you don't want to do it, it doesn't matter what I think."

"Hang out with other people who are trying to make the same change. It gives you support, but it also gives you some accountability."

"When these people get sober it's spectacular how the real person seems to emerge. The addiction masks something about who they truly are."

@KeithNHumphreys on @hubermanlab

[Keith Humphreys @KeithNHumphreys]

Hard truths about the effect of political monoculture on the quality of public health research and policy by @haroldpollack

[Tyler Black, MD @tylerblack32]

"Believe patients" here conflates two things: their experience (always valid data) and their causal attribution (a hypothesis). We have empathy for the first, and need evidence for the second. Collapsing both into "believing" them isn't humility, it's an error.

/1

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"In 2021...Oregon and Washington both effectively decriminalized the possession of small amounts of all controlled substances...decriminalization caused over 1,000 excess deaths per year—a dismal cost to a misguided experiment." https://t.co/BK6bjHJ1BF

[Allen Frances @AllenFrancesMD]

Antipsychiatrists, ever since Tom Szasz 65 years ago, argue mental illness is "myth" bec no clearly defined "cause" & no bio test.

Tell that to people suffering from schizophrenia/bipolar disorder/severe OCD- or their families.

And many diseases in medicine have no clear cause.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

Gambling Disorder Diagnoses Have Risen More Than 60% in States That Legalized Sports Betting

Key Findings:

Among adult patients living in states that have legalized sports betting, the quarterly rate of diagnosed gambling disorder rose from 3.0 per 100,000 patients in Q1 2018 to 4.8 per 100,000 in Q1 2026, around a 61% increase.

In states that have not legalized sports betting, the rate moved in the opposite direction, falling from 3.1 per 100,000 in Q1 2018 to 2.2 per 100,000 in Q1 2026, a 29% decrease.

Of the overall population, adults aged 30 to 49 had the highest overall quarterly rate of diagnosed gambling disorder throughout the study period, reaching 5.8 per 100,000 by Q1 2026. The largest proportional increase was among adults aged 18 to 29, whose rate more than doubled. Rates rose in both sexes and in every age group, but the male-to-female gap was substantially larger in adults under 50.

[Dan Blonigen @BlonigenDaniel]

#NewProfilePic

[Dan Blonigen @BlonigenDaniel]

@RandBall Something about A-Rod’s look just now before the break says, he agrees with you

[JAMA Psychiatry @JAMAPsych]

Street psychiatry for people experiencing unsheltered #Homelessness relies on temporary public and private grants, while sustainable expansion will require health plan payment reforms and broader Medicaid reimbursement for outreach-based care. https://t.co/wMzlRdzRt5

[StatMuse @statmuse]

Wolves with 30+ PTS, 10+ REB and 0 TOV in a playoff game:

— Kevin Garnett
— Jaden McDaniels

That's it.

[Tommy Kramer @Kramer9Tommy]

Great night for Mn sports

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Researchers paid $1.06 billion to five academic publishers from 2015-2018 to publish their papers.

Academic publishers sold the same papers back to researchers for $2 billion.

[Keith Humphreys @KeithNHumphreys]

Today in @ScienceMagazine my colleagues and I address the mystery of why opioid overdoses in the US and Canada suddenly began dropping dramatically. We assemble traditional and novel evidence to point to an illicit drug supply disruption, probably in China. 1/8

[Miles Commodore @miles_commodore]

Other than me, who remembers this game?

[Thomas Sullivan @Yfz84]

Harrison Smith career stats

1180 tackles
106 passes defensed
51 career tackles for loss
39 interceptions
21.5 sacks
13 forced fumbles
10 fumble recovery’s

First ballot #22
Hell of a career

[Matthew Coller @MatthewColler]

Any other take from Vikings fans about Sam Darnold other than "good for Sam" is wrong.

He won 14, was let go and never said a bad word about the Vikings, never a "told ya so" about the decision. Just led his team, did his job and proved all the 1-year wonder narratives wrong