Notable Links - Feb 26, 2023
Academic - Open Access
Problems for enactive psychiatry as a practical framework. Jodie Louise Russell in Philosophical Psychology.
Investigating Lay Perceptions of Psychological Measures: A Registered Report. Joseph Mason, et al. Psyarxiv. “This registered report offers a seldom-heard qualitative perspective to these ongoing debates, critically exploring members of the general publics’ (i.e., non-experts) lay perceptions of widely used measures in psychology.”
Principles and procedures for revising the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology. Miriam K. Forbes, et al. Psyarxiv. (I’m a co-author). “To achieve its aims, HiTOP must incorporate emerging research in a systematic, ongoing fashion. In this paper, we introduce the conceptual background, organizing principles, core assumptions, and procedures for revising the HiTOP framework.”
Reconstructive Justice — Public Health Policy to End Mass Incarceration. Eric Reinhart in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Prefrontal, parietal, and limbic condition-dependent differences in bipolar disorder: a large-scale meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies. Maya C. Schumer, et al. in Molecular Psychiatry. “Our findings indicate reproducible localization of prefrontal, parietal, and limbic differences distinguishing BD from control participants that are condition-dependent, despite heterogeneity…”
Lesion network localization of depression in multiple sclerosis. Shan H. Siddiqi, et al. in Nature Mental Health.
News Media and Social Media
Want to Fix Public Health? Stop Thinking Like a Doctor. Eric Reinhart in The Nation. “Today, the dominance of clinical reasoning that reduces health to individual patients while normalizing their social conditions—what I call “clinicism”—over public health is stronger than ever.”
A chemical imbalance doesn’t explain depression. So what does? Laura Sanders in Science News. (I’m quoted in the story)
First, Do No Harm. I appear in this episode (that also features Allen Frances) of the podcast Psychiatry Boot Camp; the podcast is aimed at medical students entering psychiatry residency and psychiatry interns.
Shocking on BBC Radio 4. “when Professor Sally Marlow met Dr Tania Gergel at King’s College London, she was forced to acknowledge and then reassess everything she thought she knew about ECT.”