Leonhard Schilbach
@leoschilbach
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Psychiater, Interaktionsforscher & sozialer Neurowissenschaftler. Hier privat. Psychiatrist, interaction researcher & social neuroscientist. Private account.
Düsseldorf, Deutschland
Joined August 2009
People don’t fake depression. They fake being ok. Please be kind, always.
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In this conversation, Thomas Fuchs & Evan Thompson discuss what it means to be a human being -a person- in a time that is increasingly defined through computational metaphors https://t.co/mTAgzxR2dK
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Emotions are not enemies of reason. They are high-priority signals that push certain contents onto the conscious stage so we can act on them.
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Web designers like @reijowrites bring powerful interactions to the web with one platform: Framer
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A new study in Nature uses an unbiased genomics approach to find shared signatures of psychiatric disorders. The key insight: unsupervised clustering of the genome gives us the biological categories better than arbitrary DSM-5 symptoms.
New @Nature study maps the genetic risk shared across psychiatric disorders. In News & Views, I discuss what it means when that genetic risk overlaps with normal traits, including education-related outcomes. News & Views: https://t.co/Y4mP2wyBEj Study: https://t.co/RnrnGXolMr
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This case-control study found that adults with schizophrenia had significantly greater frontal cortex serotonin release than healthy controls, and greater release correlated with more severe negative symptoms. https://t.co/K4CCsPsJxv
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Autoimmune disease can look entirely psychiatric at onset. Early presentations often mimic primary psychosis, mania or catatonia. Here are 7 immune-driven brain changes every clinician should recognise👇🧵
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📣 PostgreSQL developers: Meet Azure HorizonDB the new AI-ready database service with native AI capabilities built in. For enterprise scale, security, and performance without compromise.
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Neuropsychiatric disorders impose a substantial burden on individuals and societies worldwide. 📢 This Special Communications reflects the broad consensus of experts to advance the agenda for precision psychiatry. https://t.co/HD9NEyDc33
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Are LLMs safe for psychiatric patients and psychotherapy clients? Discussed that with @AllenFrancesMD on @PsychTimes. Let's talk about it in-person at #NeurIPS this week. #NeurIPS2025 @NeurIPSConf
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"We therefore issue an urgent call to action: psychiatric associations and guideline committees should explicitly evaluate and consider #GLP-1RAs as a strategy to manage psychotropic-induced weight gain." Learn more in this Viewpoint: https://t.co/5RRn1m5Edd
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Higher polygenic risk scores for bipolar disorder were associated with favorable treatment outcomes after lithium augmentation in antidepressant non-responders with unipolar depression. https://t.co/qDvVNk3v67
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Time is an under-recognised social determinant of brain health. In The Lancet Healthy Longevity, authors call for temporal justice through research and policies that recognise time as both a resource and a site of inequity in ageing and dementia: https://t.co/S3AVviAnZY
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Neural similarity predicts whether strangers become friends https://t.co/HW66OfDG8h
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Nature Human Behaviour - Shen et al. show that pre-existing neural similarity in strangers predicts future friendship and changes in social distance over time in an emerging social network of MBA...
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Neural similarity predicts whether strangers become friends https://t.co/HW66OfDG8h
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Nature Human Behaviour - Shen et al. show that pre-existing neural similarity in strangers predicts future friendship and changes in social distance over time in an emerging social network of MBA...
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Is there an impostor in the brain? Is Capgras more common in Alzheimer's, Lewy Body Dementia or Parkinson's? Spoiler alert: Lewy Body is the most common presentation. Capgras can teach us both about identity and neurodegeneration. Capgras syndrome refers to a delusional
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There's a spirit of revival stirring in America. Dinesh D'Souza's new film, The Dragon's Prophecy, is part of that movement. Based on Jonathan Cahn's No.1 bestseller, the film reveals how war, politics and the Bible converge in a way that we need to make a choice. Watch on GJW+.
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Nearly half of patients with catatonia relapse, primarily within two years, and while antipsychotics at discharge may reduce relapse risk, more research is needed to refine long-term management strategies. https://t.co/sWQrTvh3CK
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⏳ This is the timeline of human traits Psychiatric traits are the youngest - by hundreds of thousands of years. Within psychiatry → a huge range: » Depression: 20,000 years ago » Schizophrenia: 500,000 years ago Depression emerged in the most recent 1% of our evolution.
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ADHD isn’t just an “attention” problem. It’s impaired prefrontal regulation across distributed circuits (PFC–striatal–cerebellar–salience networks) that shape attention, inhibition, and emotion. Here’s how these circuits interact and what clinicians need to know about the
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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
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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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Read both to understand why "Autism Spectrum" is such an inaccurate & harmful diagnostic label: Autism Is Not a Single Condition & Has No Single Cause https://t.co/L7HPgSB5rP Should Autism Spectrum Be Split Apart? https://t.co/0qN1JWktnG
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Research reveals that those diagnosed with autism early show distinct genetic and developmental profiles from those diagnosed later.
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Altered energy homeostasis is associated with specific major #depressive disorder symptoms such as increased appetite and hypersomnia. https://t.co/f8uyZmKFgE
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Nationally recognized UH researchers helped pioneer an FDA-approved device that reduces amputations and transforms outcomes for patients with vascular disease—proving how research translates to real-world impact.
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Being kind to others boosts mental health more than seeking joy for yourself.
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