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🎉Our study in #BMC Psychiatry emphasizes the critical importance of addressing OCD symptoms among healthcare workers, especially during turbulent times-COVID-19 Tailored interventions are needed to support their well-being as pioneers of public health. https://lnkd.in/g3QfTCnY

News | Many people who were hospitalised with COVID-19 continue to have cognitive and psychiatric problems even two to three years post-infection, according to a new study. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eMtiHqQv Many people who were hospitalised with COVID-19 continue to have cognitive and psychiatric problems even two to three years post-infection, according to a new study. Conducted by a group of researchers across the UK led by the University of Oxford and the University of Leicester, and published in the Lancet Psychiatry, the research highlights the persistent and significant nature of these symptoms as well as the emergence of new symptoms years after COVID-19 was first present. #CitizensOfChange

I am thrilled to share our latest paper entitled "Psychogenic Hyperphagia: Excessive Eating as Stereotypy in a Patient with Catatonia." Catatonia is a neuropsychiatric disorder that is often overlooked and not treated properly. The current DSM-5-TR requires 3 out of 12 criteria for diagnosis, including catalepsy, waxy flexibility, stupor, agitation, mutism, negativism, posturing, grimacing, mannerisms, stereotypies, echolalia, and echopraxia. Previous psychiatric literature has mainly focused on simple motor manifestations of mannerisms and stereotypies and used operationalism to recognize these presentations. However, recent reports have identified complex manifestations of stereotypies, such as psychogenic polydipsia, and have effectively applied treatments used for catatonia, including lorazepam and ECT. This report describes psychogenic polyphagia as another manifestation of complex stereotypies. It guides recognizing some of these complex presentations of stereotypies, including using different normative processes, such as the change in the individual's previous self-norm, pattern, and context of the behavior, for assessment and successful treatment. The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Penn State College of Medicine and the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute have been at the forefront of improving the recognition and treatment of catatonia, as well as advancing research and conceptualization of this often overlooked condition. You can check this website for further information: https://lnkd.in/eS_D_G7H #Medicine #Psychiatry #Catatonia

https://lnkd.in/eYqhFzeg For psychoanalysts everywhere. Another positive research conclusion: people with chronic depression reporting a history of childhood trauma benefit more from psychoanalytic compared with cognitive–behavioural treatment.This important paper just published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, emerges from the L # #AC long term randomised control trial. It's very heartening that serious research of this kind has been done. Psychoanalysts who work long-term with adults who've been through so much as children know that it takes a lot of time for life narratives to unfold and for the story to be worked through within transference. We witness the structural changes emerge after a number of years of work. It cannot be rushed. It cannot be short-term. It has to be psychoanalytic. It's so great to have that confirmation from researchers like these.Please get the message out there. Open Access. Repost?

What potential does oxytocin have in improving youth irritability? The latest American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) podcast features Dr. Soonjo Hwang and Dr. Ned Kalin. They discussed Dr. Hwang's recent groundbreaking study on intranasal oxytocin for youth irritability. During their conversation, Dr. Hwang highlights the link between irritability and psychiatric disorders, emphasizing the need for prompt recognition and treatment. In his study, intranasal oxytocin showed promising results in improving symptoms and brain function. “Irritability has some brain-level mechanisms that can be potentially targeted by oxytocin”,  Dr. Hwang explained. “For many other psychiatric diagnoses, maybe that should be the way to go. Not target the categorical diagnosis as a whole”. He proposes instead: “Let's narrow down: there's irritability in those diagnoses and they may share the same mechanism that can be targeted by oxytocin”. “I think that should be the future direction of clinical trials in psychiatry, not just for the oxytocin, for other interventions as well”, Dr. Hwang concluded. Want to listen to the whole conversation? Visit the AJP podcast latest episode: https://hubs.ly/Q02sBwFB0 #YouthMentalHealth #OxytocinResearch #PsychiatryInsights

Exploring Mood Disorders and Brain Health Through the Lens of Functional Psychiatry Follow me for more #lifestylemedicine advice and programs to make a real change in your life! 💪 https://lnkd.in/ewcYvR8U #bodyheartandsoul #bodyheartsoul #drnanecheung #nutrigenomic

Exploring Mood Disorders and Brain Health Through the Lens of Functional Psychiatry Follow me for more #lifestylemedicine advice and programs to make a real change in your life! 💪 https://lnkd.in/ewcYvR8U #bodyheartandsoul #bodyheartsoul #drnanecheung #nutrigenomic

Exploring Mood Disorders and Brain Health Through the Lens of Functional Psychiatry Follow me for more #lifestylemedicine advice and programs to make a real change in your life! 💪 https://lnkd.in/e-vsY9D4 #bodyheartandsoul #bodyheartsoul #drnanecheung #nutrigenomic