Fascinating thing about insight & delusions is that it's not just strength of belief but also knowledge that the belief is impossible/against own fundamental beliefs (being in 2 places/eras at the same time). But true that this emerges most during recovery. Delusions are dynamic

UK neuropsychiatry goes from strength to strength!

Epic incompetence, sincere belief that rules don’t apply to him or desperate attention-seeking? It’s like he never went away.

Got a reviewer request for this journal today, but I’m stuck already

New PI managing three projects 😎😅

Lack of effective regulation around highly priced but ineffective interventions for people with cognitive issues is deeply troubling.
Caring for patients with dementia should also mean protecting them from false, expensive hope.

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Margaret McCartney UnHerd

Celebrating 55 years of CLOUDS, originally released in May 1969. The album has subtle, unconventional harmonies and intimate reflections on love and existence, and features a self-portrait painted by Joni for its cover artwork.

Revisit the album here: JM.lnk.to/Clouds

Finger-prick blood testing🩸shows promise to help traumatic brain injury / Alzheimer's diagnosis, as this remarkable technology continues to improve.
Wonderful working with Nicholas Ashton Magda Mike Hanna Henrik Paresh Malhotra @Neurosharp & more on it: academic.oup.com/braincomms/adv…

This book may be of interest to Mad Studies/ Phenomenological Psychopathology/mental health scholars/practitioners Anthony David Alastair Morgan Paul Lodge Prof Lisa Bortolotti The Institute for Mental Health (IMH) Wouter Kusters Dr LJ Spencer and others.

Good luck with the new book!

How We Learned to Question Medicine - Professor Paul Garner youtu.be/4qMpaAEPdRQ?si… via YouTube
'Scepticaemia', EBM, long-covid, NICE not nice. Watch with an open mind.

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Powerful and well argued piece by David Bell

Helpful, sober, true: a valuable response from Awais to that recent Guardian piece which once again straw-manned the 'medical model' of mental illness.

Disappointed not to hear 'the prividege of my life' but still got 'blessed' to have had opportunity etc.

Anyone awarded a PhD UCL on a mental health related topic can apply- £500! for the best thesis. Award will be announced at the #IoMHconf2024

UCL Psychiatry UCL Psych & Lang Sci UCL Population Health Sciences IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society UCL Health of the Public UCL Brain Sciences

📢UCL Grand Challenge of Mental Health & Wellbeing Pump-Priming Funding Call now open!

£25,000 available to support MHW research that crosses disciplinary boundaries and accelerates intervention discovery and development.

Apply now! Deadline: 3 June!

ucl.ac.uk/grand-challeng…

Register now and get early bird discount before 30th April. I'll be discussing the 'social' in psychiatry - amicably and productively for sure.
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I really like this piece by the Provost of UCL. To me, it's a great vision of what Universities should be.
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UCL internal deadline for MHRUK scholarships is this Thursday!

2 new 2024 PhD Scholarships on (much neglected) maternal mental health, with 1 on psychosis.

Find out more: mhruk-test.org.uk/mhruk_rebrande…

Wonderful programme. Don't know how Sathnam managed to smuggle in such diverse music past the always attentive Berkeley!