Steve Stewart-Wlliams is one of our leading public intellectuals on evolutionary psychology; why our ancient psychology influences our modern mores. His posts are always worth a read.

Next week at American Psychiatric Association #APA2024 Keris Jän Myrick, Darlene King, John Luo, and I will host a session titled 'Can #ChatGPT See My Patient? An Introduction To #GenerativeAI and Large Language Models in Care Settings.' While the first slide is 'No', we promise to cover much more

Good to see a wide variety of thinkers & leaders on this Time Health100 list - including patients

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Sad to hear of the passing of Jerome Barkow. The Adapted Mind (co-authored with John Tooby and Leda Cosmides) was/is a tour de force volume on evolutionary psychology. Jerry was also an exquisite writer, who knew the value of a well-crafted sentence (rare enough in academia).

Beautiful day for a run after the successful end of #ICT4AWE in Ville d'Angers 🇫🇷 today. Our next #ICT4AWE (11th) is in Visit Porto and North of Portugal 🇵🇹 6-8 April 2025 👉 ict4awe.scitevents.org/?y=2025

Study shows: ChatGPT can produce medical record notes ten times faster than doctors

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'The future of the professions' is still the best book on, well, the future of the professions.

Check it out

Richard Susskind & Daniel Susskind

Honored to share some of our work & ideas on this topic

Says Gary Marcus: 'have written (or co-written, in one case) six books. Taming Silicon Valley, which I finished yesterday, was the fastest, written with urgency, in rage and in fear'
Looking forward to it. Did chatGPT help with that personal best?

Our paper “Human Control of AI Systems: from Supervision to Teaming” is freely available SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school

- significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls
- reduced bullying among both genders
- improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates
- largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids

Take a break for 2 minutes with Dennett's wisdom

Great talk by Katie Winkle at MedTech UPPSA at UIC

Nocebo – the evil twin that makes you feel worse

Interview in Life Science Sweden with Anders Göransson

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The phrase that I use the most to myself in my head is one word: accept.

tDCS for Depression

This week, we look at the new JAMA Psychiatry paper by Lucas Borrione et al. showing no superiority over a sham intervention. Also, psychiatrists & AI (@crblease, Psychiatry Research Journal) and Dr. Daniel Gorman on Charlatan Syndrome (@JAMA_current).

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“As a junior doctor I loathed watching frail, mostly older people languish on trolleys in corridors, receiving substandard treatment that they didn’t want and were unlikely to benefit from. This is now the norm …” theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Challenging the beauty bias literature