Ally Rooney

Dad x5, consultant neuropsychiatrist and clinical academic.

[Ally Rooney @allyrooney]

@TheLivingLibary @sherpajahan A (long) list of often searched books would be helpful to see what others use.

[Ally Rooney @allyrooney]

A petition on improving access to treatments in the NHS for depression and bipolar disorder - please sign if of interest👇
https://t.co/w9k8G70IV8 via @38degrees

[Saganism @Saganismm]

Look closely. Between these two moments, our species has performed miracles. We have mapped the blueprint of life within our own DNA. We have built “brains” of silicon that can outthink their creators. We have pushed back the darkness of disease. Infant mortality has plummeted, and millions of children who would have been lost to the earth in 1972 are today alive, dreaming, and contributing to the global chorus. We have sent robotic emissaries to the edge of the interstellar dark and peered back at the beginning of time itself through mirrors of gold.

Technologically, we are a different species. We are more connected, more informed, and more capable than any ancestor could have imagined in their wildest fever dreams.

And yet, look again.

From this distance, the borders remain invisible. You cannot see the “holy” ground over which we spill the blood of our children. You cannot see the walls we build to keep our neighbors out or the ideological trenches we dig to bury our common humanity. Despite our leap from vacuum tubes to artificial intelligence, we remain haunted by the same ancient tribalisms. We use 21st century technology to prosecute Bronze Age grudges.

We have changed the climate of our world, but we have yet to change the climate of our hearts. We are still a toddler civilization, playing with matches in a library of irreplaceable wonders.

The contrast is our great paradox. We have the power of gods, but we still possess the temperaments of the territorial primates from which we rose. We have learned to fly between worlds, but we are still struggling to learn how to walk together on this one.

[Robert Howard @ProfRobHoward]

Resident psychiatrists, your happiness and career success is a key aspect of our survival in difficult years ahead. I’ll make your voice central to the College mission and work with you to change training and conditions so you can thrive as confident specialists. Use your vote.

[Science News @SciencNews]

How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem

[Ally Rooney @allyrooney]

https://t.co/s29E8Hn5ah

[Robert Howard @ProfRobHoward]

Important thread from Jesus on mortality and associated morbidity in depression. Bad news for those who cast shade on ECT and antidepressants - they both reduced mortality. Good news for treatment of depression.

[Ally Rooney @allyrooney]

@grok @franciseromose2 @forallcurious It's an image from the Herschel observatory. See here: https://t.co/rxdO8WLUql

[Ally Rooney @allyrooney]

@WisDems @DaftLimmy

[Ally Rooney @allyrooney]

@HamiltonMorrin @GSTTnhs Great news - congratulations!

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Birds are fed by their parents in their infancy. When the time comes to feed themselves, there can be some confusion when the food does not go into their mouth by itself.

[Ally Rooney @allyrooney]

@Edel_PLopez One of my referee reviews (just one) said simply, "Nicely done". That was it. I've no idea who it was but I think about it sometimes.

[Alan Carson @AlanCarson15]

Our CODES trial mediation analysis paper now out. Bottom line seizure related avoidance is core target but probably not the whole story
https://t.co/gatXsDOiG4.

[Ally Rooney @allyrooney]

3/3 Much of the discussion and associated media is also balanced and appropriate. Congratulations to everyone involved for having courage to step up and for the immense achievement of running a successful trial https://t.co/ctjofouF1e

[Ally Rooney @allyrooney]

1/3 An important study from @joannamoncrieff and colleagues finds that antipsychotic drug maintenance meaningfully reduces the risk of severe psychotic relapse https://t.co/YPM40rOU9C

[Ally Rooney @allyrooney]

2/3 Some patients reported ‘other’ qualitative benefit from reducing their dose - arguing for (hopefully normal clinical practice) a careful personalised discussion of risks and benefits of reducing medication versus continuing it https://t.co/yLAFBkBDgl

[Jon Stone @jonstoneneuro]

Professionals who use the word “psychosomatic” need to understand its popular meaning is “all in the mind”.

Not the interaction between brain/mind and body that was the original intention.

https://t.co/rWdt8MqSTR
Crossword from The Guardian

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Right Pointing Arrow spins 180° and it still points to the right. Only in a mirror will it point left (and only to the left). An incredible ambiguous object illusion by mathematician Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University in Japan

[📹 physicsfun]

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

This mind-bending timelapse with the sky stabilized shows the Earth is spinning through space.

Video credit: Eric Brummel