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Mind Fixers tells the history of psychiatry’s quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here.

In the golden age of “talk therapy,” the 1950s and 1960s, psychotherapists saw no limit to what they could do. Believing they had already explained the origins of war, homosexuality, anti-Semitism, and a host of neurotic ailments, they set out to conquer one of mankind’s oldest and fiercest foes, mental illness. In Madness on the Couch, veteran science writer Edward Dolnick tells the tragic story of that confrontation.

Senate Bill No. 2203 SUB B Passes Senate Bill No. 2203 SUB B as amended and House Bill No. 7503  SUB B as amended have passed!! We are now waiting for […]

Trifiletti R, Lachman HM, Manusama O, Zheng D, Spalice A, Chiurazzi P, Schornagel A, Serban AM, van Wijck R, Cunningham JL, Swagemakers S, van der Spek PJ. Identification of ultra-rare […]

Citation: Bransfield, R.C. Adverse Childhood Events, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Infectious Encephalopathies and Immune-Mediated Disease. Healthcare 2022, 10, 1127. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10061127 “In summary, insight into the underlying pathophysiology of Adverse Childhood Events, […]

Paediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric syndrome in recurrent acute bacterial pharyngitis – a case report.  Pepaś, Renata; Przysło, Łukasz; Konopka, Wiesław. Paediatrics and Family Medicine; Warsaw Vol. 18, Iss. 1,  (2022): 84–88. DOI:10.15557/PiMR.2022.0011 […]

Speaker: Roseann Capanna-Hodge, Ed.D., LPC, BCN, LLC. Webinar: Calming the PANS/PANDAS Brain with Neurofeedback Date/Time: Tuesday, June 7 – 12:00 pm EST Register view webinar: Watch Today! In the webinar […]

M LaRusso, DF Gallego-Pérez, CE Abadía-Barrero. Untimely care: How the modern logics of coverage and medicine compromise children’s health and development, Social Science & Medicine, 2022, 114962, DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114962. Coverage […]

  Speaker: Darin Ingels, ND, FAAEM, FMAPS Webinar: Low Dose Immunotherapy: A Novel Treatment for PANS Date/Time: Wednesday, July 27 at 8:30 pm EST/ 5:30 pm PST Register to view […]

Speaker: Peggy Chapman, RN Webinar: Psychiatric Medication Strategies for Children with PANS/PANDAS Date/Time: Monday, June 27 at 6:00 PM EST Register to view webinar: Watch on Demand About this webinar: This […]

Chan A, Gao J, Houston M, Willett T, Farhadian B, Silverman M, Tran P, Jaradeh S, Thienemann M, Frankovich J. Children With PANS May Manifest POTS. Frontiers in Neurology. Vol […]

Choutka, J., Jansari, V., Hornig, M. et al. Unexplained post-acute infection syndromes. Nat Med 28, 911–923 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01810-6 “SARS-CoV-2 is not unique in its ability to cause post-acute sequelae; certain […]