How might we leverage knowing that a particular neurological feature makes someone more vulnerable to autism or Alzheimer’s or more likely to achieve academically?
Tag: Psychiatry and Psychiatrists
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Doctors, Attend to Your Mental Health
Removing the stigma from mental health care for doctors. Also: War crimes in Ukraine; the “Don’t Say Gay” law; baseball signs; Alcoholics Anonymous.
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This Psychiatric Hospital Used to Chain Patients. Now It Treats Them.
Sierra Leone, one of the world’s poorest countries, is working to build a modern mental health system from scratch.
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Why Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Gets Overlooked
Experts say millions of people are affected by trauma, which has become a buzzword and a meme. So why aren’t more of them being treated?
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Prolonged Grief: A Mental Disorder, or a Natural Process?
“How dare you tell me how long I may grieve?” one reader writes. Readers are mostly opposed to declaring it a disorder, arguing that it is stigmatizing.