Saffron improved sleep in randomized trial of 150 (20-30 mg):
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40698...

An old #antidepressant (1st Rx circa 6,000 bce), but only recently crossed the threshold of 3 large trials in #depression (cost = $15-30/mth).

How to use saffron:
chrisaikenmd.com/supplements

Crime and the perception of crime: @jburnmurdoch.ft.com via @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9623...

This EO extends state laws, incl CA under Newsom, making homelessness criminal + *any mental health diagnosis* a factor in incarceration.

Involuntary commitment is both horrific & counterproductive: www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-groundbr... - excellent analysis as usual by @awaisaftab.bsky.social

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]

The International Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes The longlist of 12 or 13 books will be announced on Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at 2pm (GMT).

thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi have won the International Booker Prize 2025 for Heart Lamp, the first collection of short stories to win the prize 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

How First Nations men are being demonised ANALYSIS: Many politicians and public figures wrongly link violence with Indigenous cultural identity, which only intensifies stigma and does nothing for prevention efforts.

As promised, here is a free link to my OpEd on Intimate Partner Violence.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20621/...
I hope this provides a much needed evidence based approach to this is complex issue.One that belongs in the hands of those who understand the it from a position of science, of data

Treatment Resistant Depression — A Collective Failure of Imagination Coming to terms with the reality of imperfection

“Insofar as a major goal of any treatment is to diminish suffering, clinicians must consider the physical and emotional burden that patients incur when they submit to multiple ineffective treatments.” Joseph F. Goldberg

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/repost-tre...

Anatomy of Moncrieff's Anti-Medication Playbook A 3-step strategy of attacking medical psychiatry

I'd love to see this piece get a lot more attention. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/anatomy-of... #psychsky

Kishore Mahbubani on why American democracy is failing youtu.be/cESlmS6PCow

A phone hotline reduced suicide attempts 3-fold and self-injury 9-fold in this large, 1-year, randomized trial of #borderline personality in France:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38239907

Phone operators were trained in DBT.
#suicideprevention #mentalhealth #suicideawareness #bpd

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

YouTube video by Force Magazine In Trump's World, India Will Not be a Priority

youtu.be/uel0ZN4uHi8

Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy - Nature Communications Hickel and colleagues find that, in 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. Unequal ex...

1) This is my top highlight. We found that the global North net-appropriates more than 800 billion hours of labour from the South per year. This occurs because Southern wages are 83–98% lower than Northern wages for work of equal skill in the same sector. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In 2022, NHS England commissioned us to model the potential longer-term trends in alcohol-related deaths based on evidence about changes in alcohol consumption during the pandemic.

We tested 5 scenarios as to how these changes might evolve (the lines). The reality is much worse (the dots).

Scientific Method and Scientific Madness Scientific conclusions need not be accurate, justified, or believed by their authors

Scientific Method and Scientific Madness: Scientific conclusions need not be accurate, justified, or believed by their authors

New post discussing a provocative & memorable 2021 article by @haicinnamon.bsky.social & @lastpositivist.bsky.social !

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/scientific...

Frailty Trajectories Preceding Dementia in the US and UK This cohort study investigates when the degree of frailty accelerates before dementia and how it is associated with dementia risk.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Isaac Newton’s wealth ‘intimately connected’ with slavery, author says Scientist and banker benefited from gold mined primarily by enslaved Africans in Brazil, book claims

“He’s an epoch-defining thinker. But even the greatest scientists are part of their time.” www.theguardian.com/science/2024...