Professor Emerita in psychiatry, mental health services researcher, avid reader, meditator. Tweets reflect my own views.
Joined May 2009
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Can't recommend Kara's Zivin's book, Perserved, highly enough. It's a searing personal story bout peripartum depression, coupled with important information about the science of this malady. Available in book stores now!
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.@nancyAFrench thank you for this important reminder of the limits of our seeing or “knowing” the state of other’s bodies and minds and the need for compassion.
Science says we’re treating concussions all wrong - Slate apple.news/A8NypswoGS6Gkb8Vd…
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.@hubermanlab . @PeterAttiaMD Interesting podcast reviewing articles on light exposure during day and dark exposure at night and the importance of exposures for mental health. Urge practicing clinicians to listen and consider.
New Huberman Lab podcast out now: JOURNAL CLUB w/@PeterAttiaMD EFFECTS OF LIGHT & DARK ON MENTAL HEALTH & TREATMENTS FOR CANCER•
•Darkness for Mood
•Light To Reduce Anxiety
•Autoimmunity & Cancer
•Low Cal Sweeteners Safe?
•Effective Cancer Drugs
hubermanlab.com/episode/jour…
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.@Chrisaikenmd Thanks for the update and the reminder to prescribers of these medications to watch for new impulsive behaviors in their patients.
Aripiprazole (Abilify) has a warning about causing impulsive hedonic activity like #gambling, and new meta-analysis adds fellow dopamine D3 agonists cariprazine (Vraylar) and brexpiprazole (Rexulti) to that list:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3801…
#psychiatry #mentalhealth
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After 3 years of work with @DavidTa23968240 and many other psychiatrists, pharmacists and patient experts I am happy to see The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines get a publication date amzn.to/3tTQq9s (UK) amzn.to/40o3wrI (US)
I am reading #goinginfinite by Michael Lewis and he may be shaky on Sam BF’s innocence/ guilt but the first chapter describing his telephone call with Anna Wintour is one of the most vivid descriptions of high functioning autism that I have ever read.
This is an amazing film— one person’s (Mr. Jimmy’s) obsession with capturing every detail of a music legend and the director’s effort to accurately capture his commitment and journey.
Experience Akio Sakurai's extraordinary journey in #MrJimmyMovie. For 30 years, he honored @JimmyPage, recreating iconic Zeppelin concerts in Tokyo. Now in L.A., witness the clash of cultures as Akio's tribute dream unfolds. In Theaters Sept 1! mrjimmymovie.com
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I hope everyone reads the findings of the Harvard Longitudinal Study and what it suggests about human happiness. These are observational data with all of the resulting limitations but merit consideration. Here the PI comments on his meditation practice & the findings.
Buddhist teacher, psychiatrist, and leading researcher, Dr. Robert Waldinger studies life from three different perspectives. He says they all come to the same basic conclusion about what really makes our lives happy and meaningful, and what doesn’t.
buff.ly/3CzBoXt
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These are such important questions. Service users with serious mental illness bear a burden from medication use. They often accrue benefits from reduced symptoms but attention to balancing costs and benefits is key.
Some with mental illness may need long term medication. If it has side effects, how do you trade them off against the benefits? How do you measure the difference medication makes? When should you try to reduce your dose? New pod w @ian_hickie and me open.spotify.com/show/0LAtSA…
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A seventh grader in Michigan is being praised as a hero for preventing his school bus from crashing after his bus driver lost consciousness, according to a school official. cnn.it/3LgPqkP
i just subscribed to The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak He does great work but has been affected by NPR layoffs!counteroffensive.substack.co…
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Go #gunsense #safestorage. Time for action!
Voters sent us here to #DoSomething. Today, our majority caucus discussed our plan for packages on extreme risk protection orders, safe storage, and background checks. Members have been working on these packages for years, 1/2 #MiLeg #SpartansWill #MichiganState
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Marcia Valenstein retweeted
and now, with our #GunSense majority, we can - and will - make real movement. 💚🤍
#SpartansWill #SpartansStrong #ERPO #SafeStorage #BackgroundChecks #MiLeg 2/2
Important article! Thanks for pushing forward this work on gun owners’ preferences for safe storage!
1/ Thrilled about this new paper, just out this morning. Led by @EmmyBetz - we recruited a nationally representative sample of 2,152 firearm owners and asked in detail about their preferences for specific firearm locking devices
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Read this poem and took a deep breath.
"And there you’d have it. Other birds
Pour over the walls now.
I'd never suspected: every day,
Although the nation is done for,
I find new flowers."
Election Year poets.org/poem/election-year
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Congratulations to Carrie Rheingans!
🎉🎉🎉 We did it! I am honored to be the Representative-Elect for Michigan's 47th House District 😊 I can't wait to get to work for the 10 million people in Michigan! THANK YOU!! 🥰🤩😁 #Rheingans4Rep #MiLeg #HD47
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Well balanced account of antidepressant effectiveness that addresses recent serotonin hype. Consider giving to your patients who are considering AD treatment. @SmithDanaG #psychtwitter
nytimes.com/2022/11/08/well/…
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