Professor, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs & Medical Student Education Director of the Department of Psychiatry @GWSMHS. Husband to @hastie_hast & 👧 dad x2.
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Joined February 2010
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Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
Kennedy makes unfounded claim that keto diet can ‘cure’ schizophrenia. There’s no clinical trial data to support this assertion. If you or a family member suffers from schizophrenia, get your treatment recommendations from a psychiatrist, not the Sec of HHS. nytimes.com/2026/02/05/us/po…
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
Shocking: “As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME….The only parallel offered by online databases occurred in the Holocaust.” time.com/nextgen-preview/722…
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
The death of one human being in Minneapolis rightly causes the rage of “progressives” around the world. Credible reports put the number of Iranians killed by their criminal rulers upward of sixty thousand. Mendacious regime itself admits “several thousand.” Where is the rage?
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
There was so much talk about the protests in Iran – but they drowned in blood. The world has not helped enough the Iranian people, it has stood aside.
What will Iran become after this bloodshed? If the regime survives, it sends a clear signal to every bully – kill enough people, and you stay in power.
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
The sudden presence of #Iran at #Davos is an absolute scandal. Davos claims to be a sanctuary of dialogue, yet it offers its platform to a regime that has just massacred 20,000 of its own citizens. If Davos does not cancel this invitation, Davos should be shamed and boycotted.
Today @FoxNews reports exclusively on a letter @UANI sent to @WEF calling on it to rescind an invitation to #Iran's regime's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to speak in Davos this week after the regime engaged in the largest massacre of Iranians in its contemporary history this month.
foxnews.com/world/world-econ…
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
Did you know that a short social media detox can improve your mental health?
Check out this recent @NPR article featuring #GWSMHS faculty member Amir Afkhami, MD, PhD, on tips to boost your mental health through less time on social media: n.pr/48PXSo9
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
“Pandemics in Late Modern Iran: Sociopolitical Continuities from Cholera to COVID-19”: This was the title of today’s webinar by Dr. Amir A. Afkhami, sponsored jointly by Farhang Foundation and UCSB Iranian Studies Initiative. ... [Read more]
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Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
Just a 1-week social-media detox can seriously lift your mood. Read how GW psychiatrist, Amir Afkhami, MD, recommends doing it: nprillinois.org/2025-12-02/a… via @NPR
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
سلطان علیخان وزیر افخم نخستین کسی بود که در منصب کفیل رئیسالوزرا قرار گرفت.
تا پیش از آن ایران صدراعظم داشت که با تصمیم مجلس کنار گذاشته شد و با رئیسالوزرا جایگزین شد.
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
Pop art met politics in 1975 when Andy Warhol was invited to the White House for the first time. As a state dinner guest, he met President Ford and the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
Read the full blog post here: ford.blogs.archives.gov/2025…
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
#ICYMI: @Psych_Doc discusses how mental illness in the Islamic world is viewed differently than in the West.
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Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
#GWDocs psychiatrist, Amir Afkhami, MD, PhD, comments on how our brain and gut may be connected: bit.ly/4irZjLV via @iamwellandgood
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
Findings from APA's 2024 #StressInAmerica survey show the nation's future is a significant source of stress for many of us—and a growing number appear to be losing hope that we'll leave a better world for the next generation.
See more from our report: at.apa.org/eup
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
Lisan al-Gaib is an actual title that has been used in history.
The poet Hafez is most famously known as Lisan al-Gaib (Tongue of the Unseen World).
I don't understand how Frank Herbert, some random guy in Oregon learned all this in the pre-internet age. Who told him?
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
Be this man!
or
Be this woman!
August Landmesser, Germany, 1936.
Ahou Daryaei, Iran, 2024.
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
MLK's son helps form new "Black-Brown coalition" axios.com/2024/10/01/mlk-iii…
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
« Telle est la vie des hommes.
Quelques joies, très vite effacées par d’inoubliables chagrins.
Il n’est pas nécessaire de le dire aux enfants ».
Marcel Pagnol
Amir A. Afkhami retweeted
A single flawed narrative has been at the foundation of so much misunderstanding at the heart of the US-Iran relations. And it continues. The coup would've never succeeded if Mossadegh hadn't dissolved the parliament. And, no, he wasn't elected, but appointed by the Shah ...
