More than three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is an unhealthy country. During the pandemic, the United States lost more people per capita to COVID-19 than any other high-income country and life expectancy, which was lower in the United States before the pandemic than in any other wealth country, […]
Read MoreThis is a new edition of a book originally published 10 years ago. This is a major revision that updates data supporting the view that psychiatry has been susceptible to fads and fallacies, and that in some ways it continues to make that mistake.
Read MoreIn 1959, CP Snow could claim that the average intellectual knew about as much about science as his neolithic ancestors. Overstated perhaps, but he had a good point. Science, through its technologies, has crept up to become a dominant explanatory system over the long twentieth century, and yet this has, at least until recently, been largely ignored in the public space.
Read MoreIn relating the story of epilepsy in its modern era. I have used the analogy of the boat journeying through rough seas, buffeted by diverse and independent currents, some medical some scientific, some societal and some personal. It has been an erratic journey, certainly not one like that of an ocean liner taking the shortest […]
Read MoreI am a British neurologist who has practiced in London for over 45 years and specialising in epilepsy (at the ‘National Hospital, Queen Square’, originally called at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic).
Read MoreWhat is spirituality, and what does it have to do with psychiatry? These are good questions but not easily answered; they evoke a lot of debate.
Read MoreThe importance of health systems has been reinforced by the commitment from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (L&MICs) to pursue the target of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), health security, and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of Health and Wellbeing [SDG3] and other health related SDGs.
Read MoreChimére Smith is one of tens of millions of Americans with symptoms of long COVID. According to an August 2022 NBC News story, the 40-year-old Black woman from Baltimore was experiencing extreme fatigue, diarrhea, brain fog, and loss of vision in one eye, along with other symptoms. The symptoms were debilitating, preventing Smith from working […]
Read MoreMore than three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is an unhealthy country. During the pandemic, the United States lost more people per capita to COVID-19 than any other high-income country and life expectancy, which was lower in the United States before the pandemic than in any other wealth country, […]
Read MoreThis is a new edition of a book originally published 10 years ago. This is a major revision that updates data supporting the view that psychiatry has been susceptible to fads and fallacies, and that in some ways it continues to make that mistake.
Read MoreIn 1959, CP Snow could claim that the average intellectual knew about as much about science as his neolithic ancestors. Overstated perhaps, but he had a good point. Science, through its technologies, has crept up to become a dominant explanatory system over the long twentieth century, and yet this has, at least until recently, been largely ignored in the public space.
Read MoreIn relating the story of epilepsy in its modern era. I have used the analogy of the boat journeying through rough seas, buffeted by diverse and independent currents, some medical some scientific, some societal and some personal. It has been an erratic journey, certainly not one like that of an ocean liner taking the shortest […]
Read MoreI am a British neurologist who has practiced in London for over 45 years and specialising in epilepsy (at the ‘National Hospital, Queen Square’, originally called at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic).
Read MoreWhat is spirituality, and what does it have to do with psychiatry? These are good questions but not easily answered; they evoke a lot of debate.
Read MoreThe importance of health systems has been reinforced by the commitment from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (L&MICs) to pursue the target of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), health security, and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of Health and Wellbeing [SDG3] and other health related SDGs.
Read MoreChimére Smith is one of tens of millions of Americans with symptoms of long COVID. According to an August 2022 NBC News story, the 40-year-old Black woman from Baltimore was experiencing extreme fatigue, diarrhea, brain fog, and loss of vision in one eye, along with other symptoms. The symptoms were debilitating, preventing Smith from working […]
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Charlotte H. Markey, Ph.D., is a Psychology Professor and Director of the Health Sciences program at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Philip T. Yanos, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at John Jay College, City University of New York.
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