1/ MT: In the UK, dementia is the biggest killer. It kills more people than cancer or heart disease, and it starts with cognitive decline – a worsening in people’s ability to think, reason and remember. Finding out what causes cognitive decline is an urgent scientific pursuit. 2/ "Having a lower level of education is associated with a higher risk of dementia. Education is thought to allow a person to build a “cognitive reserve” – a sort of buffer against cognitive decline."

1/ A null field like #homeopathy can exhibit large effect sizes, high rates of favorable results, and high citation impact in the published scientific literature. Null fields may represent a useful negative control for the scientific process. @EdzardErnst @gorskon 2/ We aimed to characterize a null field using a known example, homeopathy (a pseudoscientific medical approach based on using highly diluted substances), as a prototype..

1/ Mark, @markrdavis, you are on the wrong side in this argument with Dr Annie and Lucy. Let me explain why in a way that will be helpful beyond this discussion: Neuroticism is not a useful explanatory concept, and you fall in a sexist trap if you uncritically use it.

https://twitter.com/markrdavis/status/1602199971272564740

2/ lots of people recognized this problem, and tried eliminating the concept of neuroticism and using negative affectivity instead. The most robust correlate of neuroticism is that women have more than men that find it has been abused.

1/ I spent my teen years in public housing and on welfare (public assistance) with a disabled half brother and rhe welfare did not meet his non medical needs like diapers.I do not recommend the experience. However…

https://twitter.com/drlesleybarron/status/1602125076161519621

2/ America could do a much better job, assuring a basic income than it has previously. I don’t know how we would possibly eliminate other child adversity.

1/ I question the growing trend to assume that everybody should be in therapy and what effect it has on the design and delivery of mental health services 2/ the “worried well” are easier to work with the people with chronic and serious problems.

1/ in 1972 I saw my first therapy training case For systematic desensitization using progressive relaxation. My supervisor required taping sessions.

https://twitter.com/ashcurryocd/status/1585222110074482688

2/ In the fourth session, I couldn’t find a tape recorder and informed my client. In the untaped session, He confided in me that he found both the following the hierarchy and having a dual progressive relaxation boring.

1/ Kudos to big game hunter Ahmed Samei Huda who obtained a retraction for Peter Kinderman who now says retracting his paper was a good decision. retractionwatch.com/2022/10/20/wha… 2/ PK's unpersuasive excuse fro his behavior: "We had not intended to withhold important information from reviews or readers, but had instead removed identification from all the blogs, including mine, to permit blind review."

1/There is an easily implemented research program answering questions about gender and crybullying. I'm open to being proven wrong. I. Women are more effective crybullies online than men is testable with vignettes and simple lab studies, each conducted online 2/ Crybully and target gender could be varied. II. Whether advantages accrue online over face-to-face is crucial. I propose people do things online and feel good about it that they never would attempt face-to-face and that would not be tolerated.

1/ I've searched for psychiatrists who are experts in both pharmacology and therapy to see if I can find any. Many psychiatrists' therapy training is limited to psychoanalytic and only by being analyzed themselves. It seems to rot their understanding of brains.

https://twitter.com/bykatewomersley/status/1560346250695905280

2/ I am greatly disappointed in child psychiatrists who treat audiences like children, including psychologists. Without a basis, they insist they are "literally the expert" when they actually know little about meds or therapy.

1/ The author of this blog has zero background in either biological psychiatry or RCTs. He claims that calling people anti-psychiatrists is "sophistry..as disingenuous as it is increasingly popular...and subtly abusive." He associates with people who call psychiatrists Nazis. 2/ We should not be confused by his foppish pomposity (See, I cannot even fake his ridiculous prose) because he has thuggish anti-Semitic trolls as enforcers. madintheuk.com/2022/08/anti-p…

1/ Oddly, We turned the "a mother's intuition" idea into a successful NCI grant application years ago. We hypothesized that owners' ratings of canine pain would be equal or better than lab technician ratings. We were funded to do a noninferiority trial.

https://twitter.com/ShariDunawayMD/status/1557353317960925184

2/ A couple of our papers later, clever activists convinced FDA that owners did not have to give their pets with cancer to vet schools in order for the pets to receive experimental drugs because...

1/ If @jamesheathers can get confused by the efforts by Joanna Moncrieff that Serotonin Theory is Dead, there is little hope for anyone else. James is one of the original skeptical data detectives

https://twitter.com/jamesheathers/status/1557589559545937920

2/ I gathered examples of Systematic Umbrella Reviews and Moncrieff's Molecular Psychiatry article looks nothing like any of them. …mcoyneakacoyneoftherealm.substack.com/p/is-moncrieff…

1/ My inaugural article on @SubstackInc was only an 8-minute read but covered lots of ground. Here are 5 takeaways about censorship if you are a writer or reader of stories on @Medium …mcoyneakacoyneoftherealm.substack.com/p/coyneakacoyn… 2/ When many of us started paying for Medium, there was no talk of a Trust & Safety team with sole authority and final decisions about whether articles will be removed. Few are aware even today, a year after the Trust and Safety team was implemented by stealth.

!/ Debriefing of my encounter with @BecauseIMatter who insists "I’ll always listen & learn from those who’ve come before me but I have specific reasons for why I do things for our community. Don't assume it’s for attention, likes or followers." She is a paid rep for #BigPharma 2/ Her "Rookie of the Year Winner" is not on Tedtalks but the kind of thing this for-profit company congratulates itself for passing out to those who team up with it