Frederico Magalhaes

Oxford Psychiatrist |
Clinical Research Fellow with Imperial Centre for Psychedelic Research| Psilocybin-assisted therapy for anorexia

[Frederico Magalhaes @fredemag]

Neuroscience as street art.

[Adam Hunt @RealAdamHunt]

🚨Just published in the British Journal of Psychiatry!🚨

Evolutionary explanations of anxiety rated as 5x more useful for patients and 3x more useful for clinicians than genetic explanations of anxiety!

Our paper is the largest RCT of evolutionary explanations to date!

[Frederico Magalhaes @fredemag]

@tylerblack32 Psychosocial determinants has left the chat

[leafie @teamleafie]

Oxford University researchers found no evidence that cannabis use accelerates cognitive decline or increases dementia risk in later life, according to the largest study of its kind.

https://t.co/IWvhd0SZ2l

[Frederico Magalhaes @fredemag]

Lobo Antunes. A man with a deep soul and a beautiful, sad tenderness.

He was a psychiatrist, before writing took over.

Journalist: "you learned to unravel the human mind..."

"Do psychiatrists understand the human mind? No it is life that teaches us to understand each other"

[Comunidade Cultura e Arte @comculturaearte]

António Lobo Antunes🤍

[Frederico Magalhaes @fredemag]

@CollinRugg @AlphaNews AI !

[Dr Anne Katrin Schlag @Dr_Anne_Schlag]

Great article on Medical Cannabis and Epilepsy: The Evidence | British Journal of Hospital Medicine https://t.co/9st5qLn5qF

[sami timimi @stimimi]

About a quarter of “healthy” young adults think they have ADHD (28%), according to new research. But that number jumped to more than half (58%) after they received an ADHD awareness campaign based on popular ADHD advocacy groups’ material. worrying? https://t.co/vBfLIETfdg

[Frederico Magalhaes @fredemag]

@markhoro @PloederlM Is there any distinction for efficacy based on severity? There is a sense in adults that with graver forms of illness the treatment separates more clearly from placebo

[Frederico Magalhaes @fredemag]

All self-help in the literature section. No time for stories, you need to be improving yourself.

Maybe "self-help" sections should be replaced with "help your neighbour" sections and then we wouldn't need them as much.

[Frederico Magalhaes @fredemag]

@psychgeist52 I agree, as long as we can acknowledge that sometimes it is the most helpful level of explanation. For example if someone is having an autoimmune psychosis, or a thyroid surge, or they have amyloid plaques. or their brain is so malnourished they are cognitively impaired.

[Alan Watts @AlanWattsDaily]

In Hinduism, god is considered the Self: the self of the individual and also the self of the universe. And if Jesus had lived in India and had announced that he was god, everybody would have said, “Of course. Congratulations! You found out.” You know?

[Frederico Magalhaes @fredemag]

@TheBMA 👏

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws.

Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.

This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.

[Bob Vylan @BobbyVylan]

Silence is not an option.

[Frederico Magalhaes @fredemag]

@tillytog01 @justin_garson I agree.

But in US more likely that people with periods of greater productivity and even joy, inappropriately labelled as mania or bipolar.

Less likely in europe, where most presentations described as mania are much more debilitating.

[Frederico Magalhaes @fredemag]

"The silence of so many of our medical institutions in the face of this genocide reflects a profound failure to uphold the ethical principles these institutions claim to espouse and seek to instil in their members." @rcpsych

https://t.co/wvU2D8WLLJ

[Frederico Magalhaes @fredemag]

A thoughtful article about the process of therapy, what it is and isn't

[Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

“What I wanted was to manage myself out of my emotions rather than feel them, to hack my life rather than live it – and that makes for a shallower existence, not a better one”. On what constitutes proper therapy 👇 https://t.co/MDe02ytqGW

[Frederico Magalhaes @fredemag]

@JDaviesPhD Having said that, it is important that we are doctors, because hyperthyroidism can be a cause of manic presentation, encephalitis can present as psychosis, depression can present as pseudodementia, anorexia is often life-threatening etc etc...

[Frederico Magalhaes @fredemag]

@JDaviesPhD A psychiatrist practicing psychiatry as if it were any other specialty is not doing it right.

It is very different from most other specialties. A complete outlier.