Nobel prize in medicine awarded to a psychiatrist!
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Nobody is more stressed than a 25-32 yrs old thinking they are running out of time.
I recall an interview where a psychiatrist asked patients who had remitted on antipsychotics if they still "heard voices without the voices." This was described as being analogous to intense anxiety or panic. @DavidPuder, was this from your podcast by any chance? I cant it 🥲
I was reading this paper and was reminded of that conversation, specifically this part:
thelancet.com/journals/eclin…
The ending of a meuseum where you basically dont sit for a couple hours is just coo looking chairs you cant sit in and its torture
Hey catatonia/neuropsych twitterx, any experience with multiple sclerosis causing catatonia? Would new radiological MRI findings be necessary to confirm? @MarkOldhamMD @JRBneuropsiq @ProfTonyDavid @Pospo @drjprogers @Joshua_RSmith
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Systematic review & meta-analysis published @SchizBulletin reveals significant reductions in parvalbumin levels in prefrontal cortex & hippocampus across various animal models of schizophrenia, aligning w/human postmortem findings #SchizophreniaResearch bit.ly/3VJWUU5
This was very fun to help write! Thanks for the invite.
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Check out our review paper about new targets to treat schizophrenia with a special focus on the excitatory-inhibitory balance! @InfantSaturn @danilescan0 and @dopaminedr
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I noticed a lot of variation in how psychiatrists from different places transition from oral haloperidol to haloperidol decanoate.
This is one of the few injectable options we have in the public healthcare system in Brazil. Here its very common to simply maintain oral dosing1/
for 7 days after starting the patient on 20x the oral dose (so 10mg daily would be 200mg/monthly injections). This is pretty standard, although I'm aware the package insert suggests lower doses.
How is it done in other places? @JRBneuropsiq @tylerblack32 @dawso007 @sanilrege
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R.I.P. Daniel Dennett 1942-2024
"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination."
—Daniel Dennett, 1995
Favorite science fiction books?
@erikphoel I know you would have interesting contributions.
Probably my favorite song for a long time now. Roland Orzabal was in the studio and started playing around with the two chord vamp you hear in the begining of the song, but didnt think much of it. The producer pressed him to write the song, first called..
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