Psychiatry at the Margins

Psychiatry at the Margins

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  1. The rise and fall of peer review — Adam Mastroianni

Experimental History
The rise and fall of peer review
For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself. The experimental design wasn’t great; there was no randomization and no control group. Nobody was in charge, exactly, and nobody was really taking consistent measurements. And yet it was the most massive experiment ever run, and it included every scientist o…
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  1. Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Sofia Jeppsson — a philosopher of madness, moral responsibility and agency draws on her own experiences of psychosis.

  2. Understanding the Psychotic Mind — Richard Gipps on why acknowledging the irrationality of delusions reinforces rather than disparages our appreciation of what it is to be human.

  3. The crimes against dopamine — by Mark Humphries (2017). “This is what fast dopamine does: it signals the error between what you predicted and what you got. That error can be positive, negative, or zero. It is not reward. Dopamine neurons do not fire when you get something good. They fire when you get something unexpected.”

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