Tim Desmond

Founder of Peer Collective.

[Radoslaw Stupak @RadoslawStupak]

CONCLUSION A single dose of intravenous ketamine compared to placebo has no short-term effect on the severity of depression symptoms in adults with major depressive disorder.

[Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social @markhoro]

How many people have been able to safely come off an antidepressants over 4 to 8 weeks without major withdrawal problems and without needing to switch to another medication or add one on?

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

For anyone in the Santa Cruz area https://t.co/bjWFIFAkE4

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

How are we going to incorporate this new finding?
https://t.co/hxB8csUJ2K

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

@NeuroYogacara Manas is tough. When I teach it, I explain it as the consciousness present is a single-celled organism. Me/not me & approach/avert.

[Michael P. Hengartner, PhD @HengartnerMP]

Yet another rigorous, well-conducted large-scale study demonstrating that based on neurobiology we CANNOT accurately discriminate depressed from non-depressed people. Time to abandon the idea that depression can be detected and inferred from brain scans?

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

@NeuroYogacara

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

@QuintItalianer @NeuroYogacara @bsod_nams Yup. I'd have to dig to find the reference, but there's a line in Deleuze where he says experience without conceptualization couldn't exist. In Zen, it's satori.

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

@NeuroYogacara @bsod_nams I wrote a paper about this in undergrad. The only difference between Deleuze and Dogen is the possibility of direct experience without concepts.

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

@Jampa_Phalam Hi Jampa. My parter passed away about 4 years ago. Happy to talk anytime. Dm me

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

@NeuroYogacara The Four Kinds of Nutriments, which has a great part on cannibalism (https://t.co/VYJcE7nAtT)

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

Great perspective in this thread about protests in Bolivia

[Jhanisse Vaca Daza @JhanisseVDaza]

For journalists covering developments in #Bolivia, information to consider #BoliviaProtests

1. Most citizens in #SantaCruz are defending Camacho not for being "right wing", but for being the elected governor with 55.64% of votes in 2021(860,023 votes)

https://t.co/4slfCRpyns

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

https://t.co/n3jEbHRoy6 Can't wait to read this.

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

PSA: Dopamine is not a reward molecule. That is all.

[Juliet Young (she/her) @Juliet_Young1]

There's nothing wrong with seeking out attention. Attention from others is often important for survival, especially when we are vulnerable. But attention-seeking has become such a negative phrase that a reframe might help shift the narrative...

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

Progressive used to mean: I'm in solidarity with all oppressed peoples. They needed it to mean: I won't hurt anyone's feelings in my weekly standup. So far, they've done that. I hope we take it back.

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

Over the past 15 years: Tech companies needed to hire the best educated people; the best educated people were politically progressive; therefore tech companies needed to "elite capture" progressivism in a way that made it possible for them to get their workforce.

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

About to sit down with this gem. Feeling hopeful

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

@qaxaawut Picture an audience, tell them everything.

[Tim Desmond @timdesmond]

Well said!! A concussion and a tranquilizer both have short term efficacy. That doesn't make them good policy.

[James Barnes MSc., MA @psychgeist52]

Electrocuting the brain better than horse tranquilliser at temporarily reducing awareness of reasons for depression, study finds.

Neither as good as being kept asleep, which sees calls for further research and greater funding.

https://t.co/Z5CPJKRyTd