A Harvard psychiatrist addresses Kennedy's claim that he "cured schizophrenia" with the keto diet. That is "not accurate," Dr. Christopher Palmer said. But Palmer hopes Kennedy's MAHA movement will help expand access to the treatment.
w/ @ellenbarry.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
For much of the 20th century, dysfunctional mothers were blamed for all kinds of adult maladies. But a new study on early life parenting found something unexpected: Stress from the father's behavior shaped a child's health into the future.
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Great reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social + @pambelluck.bsky.social on the push — & fight — to get postpartum psychosis in the DSM:
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Is it time for 'psychiatry's Bible' to include a listing for postpartum psychosis? @PamBelluck and I report on the internal deliberations. Comments are open.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/h...
I just want to read 400 complaints about searing and emulsification from cranky adjunct professors
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Another blockbuster from
Sarah Topol, on a rapacious international egg-harvesting syndicate that preys on poor women. Hopefully we will read about arrests in this case.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/m...
A jury was asked to convict a woman who killed her two boys. What they were not told: The prosecution's own expert found she was schizophrenic, psychotic at the time of the crime. Prison officials did too. But the jury did not hear it, Yvonne Abraham reports.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/04/m...
This piece about a man who overcame midlife despair by becoming a typewriter repairman is -- I don't know how to describe it except as chicken soup for the soul. The sounds of these machines are strangely comforting.
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Cutting these housing funds could force 170k formerly homeless people back onto the streets, say critics of the plan. Rental assistance could end as soon as January. "People don't know what's about to hit them."
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A lot of news yesterday, but this @JasonDeParle scoop deserves your attention: The administration plans to slash support for long-term housing programs by two thirds, shifting funding stream to 2-year sobriety & treatment programs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
At the peak of his career, a bullfighter unclips his pigtail. Heart-stopping, from @jasondhorowitz
“I’ve decided to stop before I fall.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/w...
exceptional reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social + Jason DeParle on the new homeless policy shifts in Salt Lake City — which the Cicero Institute casts as “a harbinger of the future.”
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Extraordinary reporting from Emily Baumgaertner Nunn on the malignant criminal network that turns girls in foster care into prostitutes on L.A.'s Figueroa Street -- and why the police can't stop it. Everyone should read this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...
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R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️
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A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
It’s painful to lose a therapist, but it’s made better when the therapist has made plans for such circumstances, as I learned when my own therapist handled it all with candor and grace. Thanks to @ellenbarry.bsky.social at @nytimes.com for writing this important piece and for including me.
24.07.2025 23:11 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
When a therapist dies unexpectedly, what is left behind?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/s...
Attention all Boston-area Punjabi princesses, book club aunties, Khan Market influence peddlers and B-list maharajas. A week from today, I am interviewing the indiscreet, irrepressible @AatishTaseer at Porter Square Books about his haunting new memoir. Come with questions.
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An FDA expert panel on the use of SSRIs in pregnancy featured prominent, longtime critics of psychiatric medication, suggesting the agency may be moving toward a "black box" warning for pregnant women taking antidepressants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/h...
Brilliant @antontroian dispatch from Dubai, which has replaced London and Palm Beach as redoubt for the Russian elite. Manages to show how, and why, powerful Russians have stuck with Putin as he led their country into fratricidal war. (Read to the end.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/w...
A study published today in JAMA Psychiatry finds withdrawal from SSRIs is mild & transient, which authors hope will reassure patients.
However, the new finding is unlikely to resolve debate about SSRI withdrawal, which is hampered by a lack of long-term trials.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/h...
An astonishing figure in this piece:
Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing.
This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers.
That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.
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A grand jury indicted researcher Kseniia Petrova on smuggling charges today. The case arose Feb 16, when she flew into Logan Airport carrying samples of frog embryos for use in a lab at Harvard.
If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...
This was supposed to be a breakthrough year in the 44-year-long struggle against H.I.V.
It's turned into something very different.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
Bar chart titled “The Supreme Court vs. The Lower Courts: Rulings on the Trump Administration” showing three horizontal bar charts for May 1-June 23, 2025. Federal District Courts: large red bar (82 cases, 94.3% against) with tiny green bar (5 cases, 5.7% for). Circuit Courts of Appeal: medium red bar (15 cases, 68.2% against) with smaller green bar (7 cases, 31.8% for). Supreme Court: tiny red bar (1 case, 6.3% against) with large green bar (15 cases, 93.7% for). Shows dramatic reversal from lower courts ruling against Trump administration to Supreme Court ruling for it.
Since May:
Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.
Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.
A judiciary at war with itself.
Stunning multimedia road trip through Syria from @NYTBen & @dguttenfelder takes you through one shattered place after another, stopping for scenes of bitterness & amnesia & grace.
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It was a real pleasure talking with @awaisaftab.bsky.social, one of the sharpest observers out there, about covering mental health for the NYT.
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A large, longitudinal study of children's use of screens found that higher screen time did not predict suicidal behavior four years later. The children at highest risk, the researchers found, were the ones who said they were "addicted" to their devices.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...
