Rubin Bhatia, MD

Nothing wrong with existential treadmill ! Or as I like to call it
“Sisyphus Fitness Plan”! 😂

I think philosophical discussion of “Qualia” and the “hard problem” of consciousness is not as mysterious as it is made out to be, Patricia Churchland and Dan Dennett’s Eliminative materialism/ identity theory of mental states seems satisfactory to me ! 🤷‍♂️

Why can’t we model Qualia ? Is there an intractable barrier to modeling Qualia ? I’m just tired of philosophical arguments about Qualia 😂

Does the computational model of emotion follow a constructivist approach or basic emotions model ? Just curious from clinical perspective

Oh the stories from my peer review conversations about hospitalized psychiatric patients! I asked one doc out of frustration - did you dream as kid to become a insurance reviewer and deny care, he called me unprofessional! 🤷‍♂️

Old terms are hard to gets out of common vocabulary. Need to replacement term! Even old “cognitive” and “affective” divide may not stand either

But you haven’t tried “cold plunge” or “red light therapy”? That cures all genetic and epigenetic ailments! ( I feel I have to say it’s a joke because some people have “humor deficit disorder”)

If only horses had gods, those gods won’t be greedy ! Just sayin!

This is very disheartening for a clinician committed to “evidence based medicine” ! If evidence is “junk” then what ? Field of “meta-science” needs to help us !

If one already knows the conclusion, finding data to support that conclusion, is what cranks do, not researchers!

There is a concept of “categorical” vs “dimensional” diagnosis- I like more dimensional aspect rather than fixed labels from DSM - but the rigid insurance system likes DSM categories.

Trait dependent vs context dependent behavior,not much research in this area- leads to poor diagnostic reliability in personality disorders.I was involved in a Bipolar study,out of about 100 people we screened who had been treated/labeled bipolar, only 3met stringent diagnostic evaluation criteria

Bias and motivated reasoning is like “halitosis”- everyone else has it, except me !😂

When one gets into any sort of dualism,property vs substance dualism,
you get endless metaphysical debates about emergence and to some sort of panpsychism or idealism in my view! Also if interested, balance Panksepps model with Barrett’s constructivist model of emotions based on Predictive coding

Past Psychopharmacology clinical trials at UT Southwestern, Dallas. Now in clinical practice, trying to bring lessons from affective neuroscience to clinical practice. Appreciate if I could be added

What is the flaw in hard physicalist view that you see in Panksepp’s model ? What would Substance dualism add to the model ?