I have a few things to blog about, but will do my best to pace myself. Today I’ll have a whinge about a “study” (scare quotes intentional) from La Trobe University in Melbourne that purports to show that a high intake of coffee increases a person’s propensity to experience hallucinations. This has of course...
It’s past time for another Midweek Medicine (sorry ’bout that). I was intending to blog in detail about the recent study from South Korea telling us that the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders is 2.64 – or 1 in 38 people. *coughbullshitcough* I’m kind of sick of it though, after reading and calculating and re-reading...
Minor apologies for the language but thinking on a few people I’ve been seeing lately, I almost want to start a new Tumblr – named, according to what seems to be the fashion for all you crazy kids, “Fuckyeahantidepressants”. As I’ve written recently (well, not that recently; I have been slack...
“This, is the world that you know.” My registrars and I have been reading about and discussing phenomenology, in preparation for a presentation (which we did today, but I was most disappointed that the video clips I had embedded – and that worked fine on other computers – didn’t play on the laptop we had...
It’s tempting to do: to see some well-known person behaving oddly, or badly, and trying to fit them into some psychiatric diagnosis. There are even published papers – I recall one in the British Journal of Psychiatry years ago discussing jazz musicians. We seem now to look at rugby players. Who all seem to have bipolar...
