Can the brain understand itself?

Can the brain understand itself?

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Mistakes and Misunderstandings 1
One night on call at the psychiatric emergency department, I had once again seen a large number of patients.
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Psychiatric diagnostics 7
I have previously introduced operationalized (criterion-based) and prototypical (pattern recognition) diagnostics.
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Dr Erik Smedler
Psychedelics as medicine 4
In previous episodes about psychedelics, I have introduced the molecules used, some clinical studies, and also something about the molecular mechanisms…
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Dr Erik Smedler

July 2024

Suicide 3
In this section, I will write more about how pharmacological treatment is viewed concerning suicide risk in general and SSRI and lithium in particular.
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Dr Erik Smedler
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Suicide 2
In the previous episode, I referred to a compilation that reported that about 90% of all suicides are related to mental illness/poor mental health.
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Dr Erik Smedler
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Suicide 1
One often says that suicide (also called self-killing, but I prefer the term suicide) is psychiatry's major cause of death, in the same way that other…
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