A note from Steven Hyman, former NIMH director, on the genetic complexity of psychiatric disorders
“Our brains are not like Mendel’s peas.”
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Given the poor pay, minimal screening process, lack of therapeutic boundaries/therapeutic frame, etc., BetterHelp will never attract the highest quality psychotherapists.
When you build an edifice around publications, imbue them w/mystical significance, and make them - not real achievements - the measure of career and disciplinary success, you expose not just yourself but the whole endeavor to collapse when the paper(s) are set aflame.
"In 1996 NIMH began shifting its [..] resources from clinical studies to basic research based on the promise of the Human Genome Project. 3 decades later [..] investment has yielded almost nothing clinically useful [we should] review NIMH`s schizophrenia research portfolio."
Happy to see this published! Led by @HaynosAF & @AmyHEgbert, we overview the public health harms of labeling eating disorders as a ‘niche’ topic.
If you "don't study EDs," but you study other psych concerns, we urge you to consider that you probably do.
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This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate.
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A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year…
And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0
And paid the reviewers of the articles $0
Congrats to our 2023 Student Professional Development Award Winners! Each of our spectacular recipients will be presenting their research during the virtual poster fair on Swapcard on Friday May 5 at 1630H (AST) – take a minute to see their latest findings! #CACBT2023