proftonydavid.bsky.social
@proftonydavid.bsky.social
Psychiatrist at UCL. International Psychiatric Association (INA) past president. Liverpool FC
Funny how Trump has not so far shown interest in a Pulitzer Prize (following JFK). Perhaps he has insight into the total lack of literary value in any of his crass and crude speeches
October 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Does anyone know where I can get this wallpaper? (No, it’s not a cool new visual Illusion)
September 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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June 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Mental health professionals (Nurses, OTs, Social workers, Psychiatrists, Psychologists).
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May 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Thanks for contributions so far. Please repost!
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Mental health professionals (Nurses, OTs, Social workers, Psychiatrists, Psychologists).
Do you find the concept of Insight in psychosis useful or not?
Help us by completing this 5 min survey-part of a Masters' project at UCL

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@MaryBirken
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May 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Mental health professionals (Nurses, OTs, Social workers, Psychiatrists, Psychologists).
Do you find the concept of Insight in psychosis useful or not?
Help us by completing this 5 min survey-part of a Masters' project at UCL

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@MaryBirken
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May 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Mental health professionals (Nurses, OTs, Social workers, Psychiatrists, Psychologists).
Do you find the concept of Insight in psychosis useful or not?
Help us by completing this 5 min survey-part of a Masters' project at UCL

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May 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Nice work. Presumably a similar mechanism working in the opposite direction could lead to persistent over confidence in self efficacy and self certainty - or poor insight?
Excited to see this now out in the world!

We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Distorted learning from local metacognition supports transdiagnostic underconfidence - Nature Communications
Individuals with symptoms of anxiety and depression exhibit persistent underconfidence. Here, the authors show that distortions in learning from local metacognition can explain how underconfidence is ...
www.nature.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
February 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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If anyone has data on how catatonia is actually treated in clinical practice (ideally in the UK), @proftonydavid.bsky.social and I would be really interested to hear from you.

For example, how many people get lorazepam? And how long till it's given? What other treatments are given?
February 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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January 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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INA is partnering with the Society of Biological Psychiatry, South Africa for its International conference 2026 and 'Controversies in Neurology (CONy)' meeting, Krakow, 2026.
Note this years CONy Prague, March 2025 - very relevant to neuropsychiatry.
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Home - The International Neuropsychiatric Association
The INA is an international organization dedicated to the development of neuropsychiatry across the world.
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December 17, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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This is an excellent overview of the historical development and current application of the medical model in relation to psychopathology.
The Medical Model of Psychopathology

“[The term] “medical model” has become a slogan for use in public debate than a term of precision for furthering intellectual discussion or scientific discovery.” Gerald Klerman, 1977

*new post*

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-medica...
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Klerman noted in 1977 that the term had evolved into a slogan used more for rhetorical impact than scientific clarification
www.psychiatrymargins.com
November 24, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Just heard about Tim
Crow’s passing.
A giant of biological psychiatry. Got a bit stuck on the language-laterality-schizophrenia loop but always willing to reach for the big theory.
November 25, 2024 at 10:45 AM
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In this paper, we provide examples of complex cases that require studying the interaction between neuropathological & psychological factors within sociocultural contexts, leading to intricate clinical patterns that demand a multidisciplinary approach to clinical care
November 20, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Thanks. Tried to convey why neuropsychiatry is so rewarding
Devowered in a week over the summer. I could relate to so many of the cases. Made me feel validated with what I’m trying to do in the East Midlands for neuropsychiatry.
November 21, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Thank you so much
November 16, 2024 at 12:30 PM
November 15, 2024 at 12:40 PM