Monthly Archives: June 2022

Michael Okun ⁦‪@MichaelOkun‬⁩ Verdict for me: Guilty. Have you also been pronouncing “Lewy” Body Dementia wrong? It is Polish. My bet is that most of us have been unknowingly mispronouncing the name. Listen to the correct articulation: youtube.com/watch?v=tTy2mO… pic.twitter.com/DSiuLXW6Oo 6/5/22, 9:00 AM Joseph Thornton

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2792847?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=060422#.Ypv3jbN5yaE.twitter HT. Okun Joseph Thornton

https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2206038 Joseph Thornton

The Obesity Society ⁦‪@ObesitySociety‬⁩ Save the date ObesityWeek® 2022 early bird registration opens in June! #OW2022 pic.twitter.com/qJDsCjH693 5/18/22, 10:03 AM Joseph Thornton

Michael “Mike” Albert, MD ⁦‪@MichaelAlbertMD‬⁩ Bupropion / Naltrexone may help reduce binge drinking episodes and the amount of alcohol consumed (monthly) while promoting weight loss. Fits with my clinical experience. I have helped people with substance use disorder achieve remission with this combo. academic.oup.com/alcalc/article… pic.twitter.com/oG1K35CpcP 6/3/22, 1:34 PM Joseph Thornton

𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 ⁦‪@Eurosurveillanc‬⁩ “Good public health surveillance is essential” Read the editorial from ⁦‪@ECDC_EU‬⁩ ‘s Piotr Kramarz and Julien Beauté on #publichealth surveillance in countries hosting displaced people from #Ukraine ➡️bit.ly/EUS2722Ed #healthcare #Migration pic.twitter.com/NXcNdIubEi 6/3/22, 4:00 AM Joseph Thornton

Kristi E. White, Ph.D., ABPP (she/her) ⁦‪@KristiWhitePhD‬⁩ Immeasurable gratitude for the honor of working w/an elite team in this TBM pub where we highlight how #ClimateChange exacerbates #HealthInequities rooted in #StructuralRacism & the role of #BehavioralMedicine in addressing them. 🙏🏻🌍💚 👀 Open access ➡️ academic.oup.com/tbm/article/12… pic.twitter.com/kFzvX2rmVa 6/2/22, 1:06 PM Joseph Thornton

AMA ⁦‪@AmerMedicalAssn‬⁩ Gun violence is a public health crisis in the U.S. and we urge Congress to take action. Victims are schoolchildren, their teachers, people grocery shopping, those attending their house of worship, & most recently in Tulsa, those who’ve dedicated their lives to healing. 6/2/22, 5:08 PM Joseph Thornton

I attach two article of interest. The first is predictive descriptive characteristics on connectomes to distinguish depressed patients with suicidality vs depressed patients without suicidality The Noori article describes the neurochemistry of rat connectome. I found one article that was a double blind comparison of lithium vs quetiapine in bipolar adolescents. They found differences betweenContinue reading “Connectome psychopharmacology – not for prime time”

MDEdge Psychiatry ⁦‪@MDEdgePsych‬⁩ A growing interest in “debiasing” in both the medical and cognitive psychology literature has identified or suggested methods of counteracting the prejudices we all harbor. ms.spr.ly/6011bVjIU pic.twitter.com/hIVurPBFUO 5/31/22, 8:11 PM Joseph Thornton