Awais Aftab

I’m very glad to have come across your excellent Substack newsletter on psychiatric genetics!

Repurposing a failed class of schizophrenia drugs to treat menopausal symptoms The science and serendipity behind neurokinin-3 receptor antagonists An excellent post by @Rational_Psych

Very helpful thread, thank you.

Brilliant analysis by @morgan_alastair 👏🏻

The only book I’ve read by him is The Divided Self, that too a decade ago, and I found it very thought-provoking (& would recommend). The rest has been secondary literature etc.

“Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies” by Richard Saville-Smith (@DrAnamorphosis ) is available for purchase on Kindle. A thought-provoking book that deserves to be read widely in psy-sciences as well as religious studies.

Exciting work by @shansiddiqi et al in @NatMentHealth showing that MS lesions associated with depression are related to a brain network that has previously been identified using stroke lesions and therapeutic modulation sites.

Some thoughts on hermeneutic labor in medicine & psychiatry, & how certain harms in clinical care may be viewed through this lens — inspired by @ellieanderphd’s excellent paper on hermeneutic labor in intimate relationships (feat. tweets by @maiab )

“I would be disabled differently under socialism.” @shengokai 👇🏽very interesting thread and conversation about ADHD, disability, and capitalism