Psychiatry and Psychology

Could we say that social interaction and gossip is a special interest of neurotypical people?

Do things like psychopathy/ASPD reverse on their own for some percentage of people/ Such reversal does sometimes happen with autism in a few percent of cases. There are kids who go from being completely non-verbal to no longer meeting diagnostic criteria for autism. Does it also happen with other neurodevelopmental conditions?

I have never known a nice professor. Or maybe I have known some, but I have never worked with one. This rant comes to my mind because I'm right now waiting for an email from a professor. I wrote him two days ago and I'm super certain that he's read my email, because frankly, academics refresh their email five times a day (because they find their career more interesting than anything on the smartphone). He's not the first professor or PI to do so. I've known a couple who have done the same. They just don't answer emails because a) the person annoys them, b) they find the person uninteresting, c) some sadistic reason. I find this really f*** irritating. When I was…

How will real life highschool students and real life highschool personnels of diverse types such as athletes, musicians, bullies, populars, intellectuals, average, slackers, goths, beautiful girls, handsome boys, social butterflies, class clowns, janitors, teachers, principals, guards, coaches, etc. react to this type of highschool classmate with the following characteristics below: 1. This highschooler is an 18 year old boy. 2. The highschooler is a young badass warrior that single handedly destroyed a group of gangsters who are heavily armed with heavy guns, light guns, blades, bombs, grenades, rocket launchers, blunt weapons, etc. Our highschooler boy protect…

Hello All, Through my previous SFN posts (Progression of Sleep to Dreaming, Dreams and Dreaming, & Dreams and Memory), I believe I've sufficiently established the nature of dreaming in brain function and that dreams are meaningful. Yet some of you, who may still have some interest, may still have doubts regarding all or, specifically, the latter. Indeed, dreams are meaningful in that they uniquely interpret the resonant sensory influences unconsciously affecting the brain's response centers in sleep. So, one may ask more specifically, what are these "resonant influences and how are they interpreted by dream content?" If you still have interest or doubts, let …

Is there any research on habitual, compulsive drives toward bigotry/bias, and could this be a reason why it so prevelant in public life?

If a cure for psychopathy is available, should people be forcibly subjected to it? Not all psychopaths are violent. A lot of high functioning psychopaths are business executives, politicians, surgeons as well as successful soldiers and policemen. All activities that require lack of empathy and calmness under pressure.

Hi Everyone I have seen in the media that some people are saying that alleged victims of sexual abuse and rape should be automatically 100% believed without doubt. The logical conclusion of this position is that the accused would be assumed guilty until they can prove themselves innocent. Is this an acceptable position? As I see it, your position on this debate ought logically to align with the choice you make in the very tough poll I am posting here. Thank you very much. Kind regards Tim

What do you think is the future of this treatment? Example - autism symptoms reduced 47% 2 years after Fecal Microbiota Transfer: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190409093725.htm

Why is it not a must that all politicians and business leaders have to have IQ of 100 and above. Bill out money to big banks and big businesses is socialism for the rich hardly capitalism under capitalism bad business should go for bankruptcy. And the free market will taker off making new businesses to do well. Now a pandemic like Covid, war, fire or disaster may be? And I use the word here may be? But they still should be required to have some money not businesses or banks living on the edge not having any money or cannot even shut down for short time. When I gone to school my teacher said people that have low IQ will live pay check to pay check because t…

Hi, my name is Michael McMahon. I'm inquiring about the function of chronic pain. It can be a very strange illness in that it cannot be observed by someone else or any medical device. But the pain can still be severe for the patients. I was reading about the different theories into its nature. The slight problem I have with the overactive immune response hypothesis or the central sensitisation theory is that pain seems to be an evolved and adaptive response. Could chronic pain be a type of biological stress test? A stress test is where a device is tested to its breaking point to see where it fails and what needs to be done to fix it. Maybe chronic pain could be where the …

Hello All, Functionally, memory was evolved for experiences that had a real physical/material impact on the survival of ancestral animals. Dreams aren’t easily remembered because they are not materially real experiences and our brain is able to detect that distinction in sleep. If you’ve heard or read this explanation before, it probably originated from thoughts I’ve expressed here or elsewhere. What I may not have shared here or elsewhere before now are the mechanisms for this process in brain function. In the brain distinctively, neural activity flows in just two basic directions: Afferent for the direction of neural impulses entering the brain as stimuli …

This may be one of the stranger posts in this forum, but I was just wondering, does anybody know of any research on the concept of the corporation in society and its effect on individual psychology or something like that? I ask this because I have been dealing with moral confusion and what may be OCD, and the strange thing is that all my moral confusion and such seems to vanish when I remove the concept of the corporation. My friends also seem to be having the same sense as well when I share my thoughts on this, though I don't think they are OCD as well... anyways I haven't seen any research on anything like this though, or is this probably part of a bigger problem? I don…

Can something like psychosis prime miceoglia into a long term proinflammatory profile?

Hello All, Previously, I've posted my general thoughts on the Progression of Sleep to Dreaming in the Speculation Forum because they were based on my personal assessment of compelling meta data. I've finalized my perspective on this topic and I have posting my thoughts here in the Psychology Forum because I believe they are beyond speculation. If you should disagree, be well prepared with your arguments. Let us begin: Dreaming is a perceptual activity our brain engages primarily amid its unconscious state of brain function. The dreams we recall upon arousal from sleep are a collection of perceptual experiences because their content consciously interprets as se…

Hello, Could anyone offer reading recommendations about the emergence of consciousness from an evolutionary perspective? I’ve done a few Google searches on the topic but nothing really substantial turned up. Is this a research field (if not, why)? Who is working on it? Thanks!

I remember reading that gut microbes could affect mental health. I was thinking this could be similar to H pylori. Has anyone tested the hallucinogenic gut microbe idea before? How are gut microbes mapped? https://massivesci.com/notes/antidepressant-gut-health-bacteria/ https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/scientists-explain-link-between-depression-and-the-gut

Got into a debate with someone who keeps saying things like "Everyone has a problem with being a victim now." "People with mental health problems who aren't seeking treatment are bad." "There are plenty of charities that provide mental health care so there is really no excuse for a narcissist to not be in therapy." When asked to explain exactly what they mean by these statements and asked why they were not gross generalisations, they say they are only talking about America. Yet as I'm from another country and am a cosmopolitan, when someone says everybody, they mean everyone everywhere. I don't even think they are correct about their statements being the true state …

Sometimes on the subway we see people behaving in a rude manner, e.g. blaring music from their phone without headphones. When this happens I take a look at the offender and take note of all of their qualities, including their haircut, facial features, and clothing. My brain then associates all of those qualities with bad people so that I can avoid them. Is this a reliable way of avoiding bad people, or are the correlations drawn invalid?

What specifically are the neuropsychiatric/biochemical processes responsible for Stendhal syndrome?

Generally, when we look at a mirror, we do not attribute a color to it. That is because we are not thinking of the mirror as we look at it, but rather whatever it is we are using the mirror to reflect; therefore, to us, the mirror is the color of whatever it is we're using it to observe. However, presume you had a flawlessly polished ball of some aluminum or chromium alloy; one would generally agree, observing this ball, that it is grayish/silverish in color. However, upon closer inspection, it would be revealed that, much like a mirror, it simply reflects all colors around it, also simply being whatever color it is used to observe. If the mirror and the aluminum alloy we…

I have noticed ,since we all started wearing masks in problem a strange(ish) phenomenon. I feel uncomfortable not just because I cannot see others' facial expressions but also because my own are not in view. Until now I was not aware that I was making continuous facial expressions ,whether in public or in private but with the new regime it has become more apparent to me . Is this par for the course or is it possibly evidence for what I have heard referred to as "myeyetis" whether the sufferer imagines he or she is being observed by others whereas they are probably not doing so or ,if they are only cursorily? I am not at risk …

It is common knowledge that as people age they experience a degradation in their cognitive abilities, hence why top chess players tend to be in the 20-40 age bracket. Yet I think most people agree that 50 year olds tend to be much smarter than their 20 year old selves. This suggests there is something that IQ test cannot measure that is nonetheless a vital component of intelligence. What is it, and how can we measure it if IQ tests can't?

Ketamone and esketamine were the first breakthrough in psychiatry in 30 years. What do you think could the next breakthrough in psychiatry be?

Many academics are overworked and underappreciated. Most people cannot understand their work, and some academics may feel that their wealth and status in society is not commensurate with their usefulness and intelligence. They may yearn for the recognition and admiration which they feel they deserve but have not received. When an opportunity comes along that allows such academics to finally be in the limelight, will they gracefully relinquish that attention when it is no longer necessary, or are they vulnerable to a sort of addiction to attention? In that case, can we fully trust academics to be non-biased?