Overheard at a conference about #AI in #Medicine:

Speaker: "I hear neurologists prefer we say that generative AI systems 'confabulate' and not that they 'hallucinate'."

Neurologist [shouting from the back of the room]: "CORRECT!"

#psychiatry #neuroscience #sciComm #edu

How Proglib Fascists think the world should work. #Prisons #Psychiatry edition.

My reply: "Are you kidding? A huge number of released #parolees I meet, and MY WORK requires I interact with them, have been medicated into zombiehood, and PSYCHIATRISTS are needed to do that? You want MORE Non-violent releases medicated into social ineffectuality and a life of being incapable of even LOOKING for work or normal social relationships with therest of society? Really? Are you fucking stupid?"

Holy Heatmaps, Batman (ACAB)!

Heat maps for adverse side effects risk for medication.

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanpsy/PIIS2215-0366(23)00262-6.pdf

#HeatMaps #Psychiatry

Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”: British journalists and editors, this is for you https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-guide-to-the-british-professor?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon @awaisaftab #MentalHealth #Antidepressants #Psychiatry #MentalHealthAwareness #Journalism

"...many #psychiatrists and #psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in #sanity.” —#ErichFromm

With the mainstream media finally reporting that “depression is not caused by low levels of serotonin,” many people ask me: Why does psychiatry repeatedly get it wrong when it comes to not only to its theories of mental illness but in so many other areas?"

The Core Error of #Psychiatry/ #Psychology: Certainty about “#ConsensusReality”

https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/10/consensus-reality/