Nature Mental Health's Research Briefing section covers our study, led by Jae Won Suh, on outcomes of stroke survivors with anxiety and depression treated with primary care psychological therapy Full text of original study nature.com/articles/s4422…

A History of Metaphorical Brain Talk in Psychiatry by Kenneth Kendler "describing the disturbed mental processes in psychiatric illness in terms of brain function in ways that appear to be explanatory but actually have little to no explanatory power" nature.com/articles/s4138…

Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane? newyorker.com/magazine/2025/… Fantastic Rachel Aviv piece in The New Yorker

Pansieri et al. argue that bureaucracy is suffocating research, as an ever increasing admin burden consumes researchers’ time and diverts focus from discovery to compliance. tinyurl.com/ybv5e9ft

To shunt or not to shunt, that is the (NPH) question? The first large randomized trial of shunting for normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) just dropped in NEJM, and there was clear benefit for walking, and it favored the group receiving shunts. Spoiler alert: Walking improved,

The incidence of syphilis has increased worldwide over the last 25 years, and this increase has been accompanied by a resurgence of neurosyphilis. Christina Marra reviews the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and treatment of neurosyphilis. tinyurl.com/3fp6vczs

"Pese a su importancia sigue siendo una enfermedad relativamente poco priorizada" uchile.cl/u232757 vía Universidad de Chile #Alzheimer #21septiembre comparto entrevista GERO COPRAD Chile #chilenoteolvida

Scarmeas & Noriega De La Colina use the ancient Greek concepts of nosos (biological disease) and asthenia (functional decline) to frame the shift in Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis from clinical symptoms to biomarkers. tinyurl.com/4x9j3r87

Understanding the flexibility of working memory: compositionality, generative processing, anchors and holistic representations doi.org/10.1016/j.neub… #neuroscience

The Guardian has now run an obituary on John Searle: theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…

Misinformation about health is flooding social media, exposing the limits of current regulations and intervention: what works and doesn't work ebm.bmj.com/content/ebmed/… via Emma Grundtvig Gram et al

A short-and-sweet guide to developing research questions published in nature. Lots of good advice here 👍

Comparto Ética médica y ética cotidiana en demencia. Reflexiones y consideraciones para la práctica clínica cuadernosms.cl/index.php/cms/… Proponemos discutir los problemas éticos en demencias en 3 categorias GERO COPRAD Chile #chilenoteolvida Universidad de Chile

Inmensa emoción recibir Reconocimiento a Mujeres Líderes en Salud Mental Ministerio de Salud con 9 grandes mujeres . Es un reconocimiento al trabajo colaborativo GERO COPRAD Chile #chilenoteolvida por un mundo que no olvide a quienes olviden y cuidan, e intente entender lo que abruma

Claudio Muñoz Cerón, investigador Centro de Modelamiento Matemático y académico FCFM, obtiene el Premio Ramanujan 2025 por sus contribuciones a las ecuaciones diferenciales uchile.cl/u233361

Check out the October 2025 issue of Trends in Neurosciences: cell.com/issue/S0166-22… Cover article: ‘The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting’ by Livia Autore, Michael Drew & Tomás Ryan Tomás Ryan cell.com/trends/neurosc…

Seminario de cierre FONDEF ID22I10251 Evaluación de la disfunción ejecutiva en trastornos cerebrales mediante tecnologías de videojuegos 17/10 9h-13h 1r piso BNI F Medicina Universidad de Chile Independencia 1027 Dato contacto y link a [email protected] Universidad de Chile Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo GERO