Notable Links — Jan 18, 2023
Notable Links — Jan 18, 2023
Canalization and plasticity in psychopathology — Carhart-Harris et al in Neuropharmacology. (paywalled, but Carhart-Harris has tweeted a link that allows access for 50 days)
“Our general theory states that: cognitive and behavioral phenotypes that are regarded as psychopathological, are canalized features of mind, brain, or behavior that have come to dominate an individual's psychological state space. We propose that the canalized features develop as responses to adversity, distress, and dysphoria, and endure despite, rather than because of, evidence. We also propose that their depth of expression or entrenchment determines, to a large extent, the severity of the psychopathology, including its degree of treatment-resistance and susceptibility to relapse.”
The Birth of Analytic Philosophy Out of the Spirit of McCarthyism - Christoph Schuringa in Jacobin. “Analytic philosophy, the hegemonic branch of the discipline in the US, often thinks of itself as above history and politics. But its rise, and its enduring influence, are owed to McCarthyism, which purged radicals from postwar philosophy.”
A transdiagnostic network for psychiatric illness derived from atrophy and lesions — Taylor et al in Nature Human Behavior. (See here for coverage by Live Science: A mysterious brain network may underlie many psychiatric disorders)
Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations — Davis et al. in Nature Reviews Microbiology
How games can make behavioural science better — Long et al. in Nature
Impact of mental disorders on clinical outcomes of physical diseases: an umbrella review assessing population attributable fraction and generalized impact fraction — Dragioti, et al. in World Psychiatry
Truth and Reality: How to be a scientific realist without believing scientific theories should be true — Angela Potochnik. Forthcoming in K. Khalifa, I. Lawler & E. Shech (eds.), Scientific Understanding and Representation: Modeling in the Physical Sciences, Routledge. “On the resulting view, the objects of scientific knowledge are causal patterns, so this knowledge only ever provides partial, simplified accounts of a complex reality.”
Is ‘another’ psychiatry possible? — Diana Rose and Nikolas Rose in Psychological Medicine. (paywalled; to access pdf, see this tweet)
Childhood Maltreatment and Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Quasi-Experimental Studies — Baldwin et al. in The American Journal of Psychiatry (paywalled). “These findings are consistent with a small, causal contribution of childhood maltreatment to mental health problems.”
Scientists Have Reached a Key Milestone in Learning How to Reverse Aging — Time Magazine. (See here for the paywalled article in Cell — Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging — “ These data are consistent with the information theory of aging, which states that a loss of epigenetic information is a reversible cause of aging.”)