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Oct 5 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Remapping the Functional Organic Distinction in Psychiatry and Neurology

Videos of the talks from our workshop are now available online

Full playlist here:
Gareth Owen speaking on Conceptual Approaches to the Functional / Organic Distinction
Peter Gilli on The Organic Roots of Functional Disorders
Tehseen Noorani (@TehseenNoorani) on Psychedelics and the Functional Organic Distinction
Anneli Jefferson (@AnneliJefferson) on A Rose by Any Other Name? Labelling Effects in Psychiatry
Jon Stone (@jonstoneneuro) on Organic vs Functional - Perspectives from Neurology
And a big thanks to the organisers @samljwilkinson, @Tim_R_Nicholson, @FndPortal, Monica Greco, @HeadwayELondon, Quinton Deeley, @TehseenNoorani and @TorieRobinson10

And many thanks to @FPGMed for funding the workshop without whose support it wouldn't have been possible

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Sep 12, 2020
Spain sentences ex-colonel to 133 years in jail for murder of five Jesuit priests during the El Salvador civil war bbc.com/news/amp/world… Not mentioned here was that one of those priests was Ignacio Martín-Baró, social psychologist and founder of liberation psychology
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The Guardian has an investigative piece on the UK Government's response to COVID-19 much of which focuses on the role of behavioural science - but I think it misses the most important story theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
According to this article, the government decision on the timing of the lockdown partly rested on debates about whether people experience 'behavioural fatigue' for prevention measures like hand washing and social distancing.
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Mar 23, 2020
A brief guide for psychologists wanting to find research on the role of psychology relevant to COVID-19.

You need to search for studies in the same way you search for studies normally. However, some pointers to sites and key words might be useful...
PubMed.gov is your co-pilot. If you're not familiar with it, it's the database of medical research. Most (but not all) mental health/psychology research is on there. Google Scholar complements PubMed well (full text search, broader scope), but we'll focus on PubMed.
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Mar 11, 2020
If you want to make sense of why the UK government are making the decisions they are making with regard to coronavirus: they have prepared over the last decade for a pandemic (focusing on pandemic flu) and the strategy and evidence based is public

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Just one example - public transport operators have had a pandemic preparedness strategy in place for most of the last decade to put into place if asked. Amazing really.
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