Mark Atoni
@MarkAtoni1
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I know I know nothing ~ Socrates UofT🎓 ☸️Buddhist 🏳️🌈🌈
Canada
Joined March 2014
A therapeutic brand for every human nook and cranny is the profession chasing its own tail. Rather than collecting tools for every situation, we should focus on fundamentals that work in most situations. https://t.co/Uz8zfali9B
psychiatrymargins.com
"Little by little and letter by letter, acronyms obscure the essence of psychotherapy." Stephanie Foster
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A 24-week RCT in adults with prediabetes found a daily mango improved metabolic health vs. a granola bar with 1/3 the sugar -Mango (32g natural sugar): glucose + insulin sensitivity improved, HbA1c stable -Granola bar (11g added sugar): glucose worsened, HbA1c increased
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Conspiracy theories on the left and right both are, among other things, a defense against the vulnerability of not knowing. The illusion of understanding things we do not in fact understand protects against feeling small, inadequate in our grasp of things, and simply ordinary.
“The single strongest personality predictor is narcissism. Narcissists are particularly prone to conspiracy theories because they have a strong need for uniqueness, are prone to paranoia, and can also be remarkably gullible.” [Link below.]
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Are all people equally conscious? Exciting news — my latest paper has been accepted for publication in New Ideas in Psychology! 📘 Title: Consciousness: The Control of the Perception of Quality (CoPoQ) 👤 Author: Dr. Rupert Young 🧠 Journal: New Ideas in Psychology (Elsevier)
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A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy. https://t.co/RcPIYm2t0F
nature.com
Nature - A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.
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The plan? We gamble the entire global economy on inventing a technology that will abolish basically all jobs on the planet
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A new study provides clear evidence of the differences in efficacy among antipsychotics for acute schizophrenia, establishing definitive hierarchies of efficacy and safety and likely to lead to updates in clinical guidelines and changes in clinical practice.
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🚨 Behavioral activation outperforms Sertraline in reducing suicidality in depression. By a large margin: » Significant by 4 weeks (p<0.001) » At 1-year: 9% vs. 46% ideation (p<0.001). Faster. Longer-lasting. Get out and move.
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Our latest special issue is devoted to intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP). Helmed by Guest Editor Allan Anthony Abbass @DalMedSchool, this issue offers a mix of research and other articles highlighting the scope of application, clinical utility, and effectiveness
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After a high dose of psilocybin, the brain desynchronizes at a massive scale, causing loss of our sense of self, time, and space. This may drive the burst of plasticity caused by psychedelics. The next day, brain activity has largely returned to normal, but an echo remains �� a
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Chronic insomnia is linked to a 40% higher risk of cognitive impairment in older adults Those with insomnia + reduced sleep showed worse baseline cognition, more white matter changes, and higher amyloid burden
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Great to see the science of advanced meditative states bloom. This could help make some of the most beneficial states of meditation more accessible to practitioners. #Buddhism #zen #meditation
What if it takes losing our minds to save our minds? For centuries, enlightenment, known by many names, has been considered largely in myth, metaphor, or mystical verses. In most secularized contexts, it has been treated as a beautiful but largely superstitious story. Rarely has
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What if it takes losing our minds to save our minds? For centuries, enlightenment, known by many names, has been considered largely in myth, metaphor, or mystical verses. In most secularized contexts, it has been treated as a beautiful but largely superstitious story. Rarely has
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Clozapine is one the most effective meds for #schizophrenia But it can induce hematological toxicity in 1% of the cases. 1/4 🧵🧠 In this new paper, we tried to figure why this happens by looking at Plasma Glutathione Concentrations https://t.co/Xj4MRfizz3
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Clozapine's potential hematological toxicity, particularly its effect on white blood cell counts, is well documented and routinely monitored in clinical practice. In this study, a significant...
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Wow Fonagy et al., have done it again! So Dr. Melfi was onto something with Tony Soprano 🤔 #Psychoanalysis #MBT
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You can find the full preprinted manuscript here: https://t.co/f2BqKCyPCw
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https://t.co/Ndz1l7ih8Z 🙏
biorxiv.org
Extended cessation (EC), an advanced meditative state in which consciousness is volitionally suspended and later reset with immense mental clarity, equanimity, and peace, offers an endogenous model...
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Ri Haku (Li Bo) Viewing a Waterfall, by Tani Buncho, 19th century
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“When we say autism, we’re probably talking about autisms,” Mandell says. “We're probably talking about a lot of different biological pathways to get to a [condition that outwardly] looks similar.” https://t.co/51luYNENbg We've made it at last. Now, organise those autisms...
scientificamerican.com
Scientists will not find a simple answer to how autism arises, despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s promise to announce its causes sometime this month. Here’s what makes the condition so staggeringly...
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