Phunky Pharmacology

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@realjesseluke

[Dr Sanil Rege FRANZCP | MRCPsych @sanilrege]

Moncrieff: “The patient’s emotions are heightened… hmm.”

(Glances at her deprescriber friends)

“I know, I know - we can’t say the R-word.” ( relapse)

Moncrieff: I’ve got it! “Let’s just go with rebounding emotions. No one will notice.”

Deprescriber friends: 👏👏👏

[Simplify Rx 📱 @simplify_drugs]

Too hot to handle 👻

[Robert Howard @ProfRobHoward]

What this means is that the main determinant of "time savings" becomes the rate of decline in the placebo arm after that matched time point. So, despite greater differences at 18/12 on CDR-SB, donanemab appears to have less time saving than lecanemab.

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

I'm almost done with it🥲

[Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez @JRBneuropsiq]

A new paper by our research group!
We explored: The Clinical Significance of Abnormal Electroencephalography (EEG) Patterns in Patients with #NeuropsychiatricDisorders Due to Anti-NMDA Receptor #Encephalitis: A Comparative Study
Free download here 👇
🧵1/5
https://t.co/T7j65jBmo4

[Dr Sanil Rege FRANZCP | MRCPsych @sanilrege]

Mud? Pot , kettle , black … came across this comment which I thought was a pretty apt description of your modus operandi 👇

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

Dear network,

We published a paper (that you won't read) about a topic (that you don't find interesting) in a journal (you most likely never knew existed until this post).

Link to paper

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academics to their students: “Write clearly and concisely”

Academics to their editors: “Complexity and Crisis in a Time of Complex Crisis: Unpacking the Complexities of Crisis Within Conditions of Crisis-Induced Complexity.”

[Tyler Black, MD @tylerblack32]

CATATONIA 4-symptom screen:

* Excitement - motor unrest
* Mutism - verbally unresponsive
* Staring - abnormal gaze
* Posturing - abnormal maintenance of posture

Had a high sensitivity (91%) for catatonia. All clinicians should be aware of these to identify catatonia.

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[Zack Williams, MD, PhD @QuantPsychiatry]

A great mnemonic I came up for this is "ESPM" [excitement, staring, posturing, mutism] (like 'ESPN' but with the last letter switched). Super easy to remember and generates the symptoms from memory easily enough to allow a provider to do the screen at bedside. I really want to make this a thing!

[Jesse Luke 🧠💊 @RealJesseLuke]

This "formula" is an ideological site reflecting and perpetuating dominant power structures. A critical post-feminist, neo-Freudian lens deconstructs its biases, exposing its phallocentric, capitalist underpinning.

It's economistic framework individualizes stress, obscuring its social and political origins in patriarchal and capitalist structures.

[Jonathan Rogers @drjprogers]

Our letter on why meritocratic selection is the best way to choose doctors for training posts is just out in @TheBJPsych.

Lotteries and quotas are bad for both doctors and patients.

https://t.co/czjrWZmFXF

Thanks to Ishaac Awatli & @talia_eilon for collaborating!

[Phunky Pharmacology @phunky_pharm]

That's right, kids, there will be drug toys...
https://t.co/AsTT00hggl

[Phunky Pharmacology @phunky_pharm]

@evolutionarypsy Have you tried taking some deep breaths, or ether?

[Phunky Pharmacology @phunky_pharm]

@evolutionarypsy I volunteer to do this with MDMA, someone's gotta do it and I'll suffer through!

[Phunky Pharmacology @phunky_pharm]

@dawso007 Yeah.https://t.co/QW7wy8C6Az

[Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea]

“Functional medicine” is a marketing term designed to confuse patients, promote pseudoscience, and sow distrust in mainstream medicine.

It is a scam.

By @thefitnesschef_

[Robert Howard @ProfRobHoward]

So, maybe antidepressants don’t “blunt” emotions as those who appear to hate them so much are always saying.

[Dr Annie Hickox, Clinical Psychologist @DrAnnieHickox]

Great to see our ally, expert Rob Howard @ProfRobHoward, quoted at length in The Guardian about Streetings’ comments on ‘overdiagnosis’.