psychiatry

Image: Warner Bros.Amid all the Golden Globe nominations this morning, we’ve got your daily roundup of nerdy news and geeky content. A lot of rumors and sequels are in the works as the industry prepares for the happiest time of the year: awards season. Get your ballots out, because spoilers are in the mix!WickedDeadline reports Marissa Bode, Bowen Yang, Bronwyn James, Keala Settle, Aaron Teoh, and Colin Michael Carmichael are the latest to join the cast of Wicked. Bode will play Nessarose, Elphaba’s sister, while Yang and…

When you look at the numbers, it’s easy to gape in horror. In Ghana, a nation of 32 million people, there are only 62 psychiatrists. Zimbabwe, with a population of 15 million, has only 19 psychiatrists. And in Uganda, there are 47 psychiatrists serving a country of 48 million — less than one single psychiatrist for every million people. These are staggering ratios. To get your head around them, take the US as a comparison. There are around 45,000 psychiatrists for all 333 million Americans, which translates to…

Earlier this month, when Kanye West said he was going to go “death con 3” on Jewish people, many people online and in the media were quick to remind others about the artist’s mental health. West, who is legally known as Ye, has bipolar disorder, and has been open about it and his struggles for years.Wishes online that Ye would get help and comments on social media contextualizing his present comments with his history of both mental illness and intentional provocation have spurred important questions on how to respond to…

Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)A new study this week may provide comfort to expectant mothers living with depression. The research found no clear link between taking antidepressants during pregnancy and future brain-related conditions in children, such as autism or ADHD.Researchers analyzed the medical records of more than 3 million pregnant individuals and their children, including more than 145,000 people who reported antidepressant use at 19 weeks into gestation through the end of their pregnancy. The data allowed…

1 in 5 adults reported dealing with a mental illness in 2020 according to the National Institute on Mental Health. Image: Olivier Douliery (Getty Images)Depression and anxiety are completely normal part of life, but they become problems when they inhibit our day-to-day functions. Given a surge in mental health issues across America, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is proposing anxiety screenings for all adults.Mental health issues arerunning rampant in the U.S., with the National Institute of Mental Illness…

Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)Dogs seem to have a lot in common with people when it comes to dementia, new research suggests. The study found that dogs face an increasingly higher risk of dementia for every year past the age of 10, and the likelihood of dementia appears to be lower for dogs that are more physically active and higher for thosewith a history of eye or ear problems.The findings are the latest to emerge from the Dog Aging Project, an initiative that’s billed as the most ambitious dog health study in the…

Have you ever been gripped by the suspicion that nothing is real? A student at Stevens Institute of Technology, where I teach, has endured feelings of unreality since childhood. She recently made a film about this syndrome for her senior thesis, for which she interviewed herself and others, including me. “It feels like there’s a glass wall between me and everything else in the world,” Camille says in her film, which she calls Depersonalized; Derealized; Deconstructed Derealization and depersonalization refer to feelings…

Sam Knight is a prizewinning British New Yorker journalist whose features and profiles fizz with doggedly chased-down detail distilled into compelling narrative, whether he’s writing about Ronnie O’Sullivan, the £8bn-a-year sandwich industry or preparations for the death of the Queen (“Operation London Bridge”). The Premonitions Bureau, his first book, showcases the gifts that make him so endlessly readable. A richly researched feat of compression, it tells a tantalising tale of the unlikely interplay between the press,…