Why Is Serotonin-2A Brain Receptor Binding Reduced in Depression?
New scientific work continues to show a complicated relationship between depression and the serotonin system| Psychiatry at the Margins
New scientific work continues to show a complicated relationship between depression and the serotonin system| Psychiatry at the Margins
“Society gets the type of adolescent that it expects and deserves.”| Psychiatry at the Margins
On autism debates and classificatory solutions for social problems| Psychiatry at the Margins
No, grief has not been given an expiration date| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Ellen Barry discusses the phenomenon| Psychiatry at the Margins
Exploring the relationship between ADHD and boredom| Psychiatry at the Margins
A Review of “Elusive Cures” by Nicole C. Rust| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Whither Major Depression?| www.psychiatrymargins.com
My New York Times op-ed and bonus content| www.psychiatrymargins.com
An adaptation of Bruno Latour’s famous essay| Psychiatry at the Margins
A Substack Collection| Psychiatry at the Margins
Psychiatric medications are not risk-free, universally effective, or right for every person| www.psychiatrymargins.com
We have to assume that what we read at MIA is explicitly and implicitly colored by the commitment to portray psychiatry as a failed discipline.| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Book Review: Roll Back the World by Deborah Kasdan| www.psychiatrymargins.com
What you need to know about your diagnosis| www.psychiatrymargins.com
From the Spring 2023 issue of Asylum magazine| www.psychiatrymargins.com
A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age| Psychiatry at the Margins
The healing power of diagnosis gets a befitting name.| Psychiatry at the Margins
A book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item| Psychiatry at the Margins
“I’ve worked on many things in my life, and I have never once found a problem with such depth and complexity.”| www.psychiatrymargins.com
MIA distorts or ignores basic facts about genetics that are necessary to keep one tethered to scientific reality| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Review of “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” by George Ikkos| Psychiatry at the Margins
Insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology| Psychiatry at the Margins
A commentary on Kendler's history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry| www.psychiatrymargins.com
In situations where some physicians would admit involuntarily but others would not, holding patients against their will leaves them worse off.| www.psychiatrymargins.com
A list of all the posts and interviews on the topic of psychiatric genetics| Psychiatry at the Margins
We look for genes as a means to an end—biology, epidemiology, and etiology of complex human outcomes.| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Ellen Barry is a reporter covering mental health for the New York Times.| www.psychiatrymargins.com
“Individuals with disorders often have advantages, but that does not make the disorder an adaptation.”| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Updates, clarifications, and corrections| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Exploring critical, philosophical, and scientific debates in psychiatric practice and the psy-sciences. Click to read Psychiatry at the Margins, by Awais Aftab, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Cliff-edged fitness functions and the evolution of schizophrenia| www.psychiatrymargins.com
“Our brains are not like Mendel’s peas.”| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Genetics so far has offered few answers but has provided many clues| www.psychiatrymargins.com
A Review of Adrian Kind's "How Does the Psychiatrist Know?"| www.psychiatrymargins.com
And reflections on relationships with psychotropics gone awry| www.psychiatrymargins.com
A Review of Laura Delano's "Unshrunk"| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Reevaluating the emphasis on efficacy vs risks| www.psychiatrymargins.com
A 3-step strategy of attacking medical psychiatry| www.psychiatrymargins.com
I’ve conducted Q&As and discussions with a number of folks on this Substack with the hope of fostering a re-examination of philosophical and scientific debates in the psy-sciences.| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Setting the stage for new scientific characterizations of psychopathology| www.psychiatrymargins.com
The medical model in context| www.psychiatrymargins.com
A disease state is not identical with the biological state but it is metaphysically dependent on it| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Populism can be a powerful force, but it tends to be neither self-critical nor self-correcting| www.psychiatrymargins.com
What does heritability tell us about causation?| www.psychiatrymargins.com
