Is the ‘default mode network’ responsible for the mental health crisis in youth?
(Note: I now also wrote up this blog post as a commentary that I submitted to the editor of the journal.) The very short answer is: no, youth mental health… Read more »
Category Archives: Mental illness
Does the d (disease) factor really exist?
Mental health problems are comorbid, which means that they are positively intercorrelated and don’t tend to occur in isolation. Of all people diagnosed with major depression, for example, about half… Read more »
Studying mental disorders as systems, not syndromes
Update: the paper is now published in Current Directions in Psychological Science; you can find my summary of the paper on Twitter. I’ve written a very brief piece on embracing… Read more »
All mental disorders are brain disorders … not.
TL;DR: Mental disorders are commonly defined as “brain disorders” in the literature, and the current funding structure in psychiatry and clinical psychology is strongly based on this notion. At least… Read more »
New network paper on comorbidity between mood and anxiety disorders
We have a new network paper out in Psychological Medicine entitled “Network Analysis of Depression and Anxiety Symptom Relations in a Psychiatric Sample” (PDF). I tend to think of the… Read more »
Nature correspondence published
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Our commentary regarding the NIMH’s decision to solely fund research investigating the neurobiological roots of mental disorders was published in today’s issue of Nature. » Fried, E. I., Tuerlinckx, F.,… Read more »