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• AGGRESSION: HUMANITY’S ULTIMATE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD [Research & Commentary]
• Altitude & Mental Health
• Archaelogy & Mental Illness

• Why We Believe the DSM 5 is a LEMON​

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING DEFICITS MAY BE A MAJOR CAUSE OF THE MASS INCARCERATION CRISIS

• Genius & Madness Have Been Linked Since Ancient Times — Are We Starting To Find Out Why?

High Intelligence and/or Giftedness is more complicated than most of us think — & and often comes with “over-excitabilities,” including physical and emotional over-excitabilities.

Research seems to confirm that people with high intelligence and over-excitabilities are more prone to mental illness due to over-activation of the stress response, which damages the immune system, and ultimately damages the brain.

We think this research likely applies to the full spectrum of “gifted” individuals since such overexcitabilities are also seen in them as well.

• Studies Have Linked Mental Illness with High Intelligence.

Our experience is this plays out in unexpected & disturbing ways in the Criminal Justice & Mental Health systems.

HITOP — A New Mental Health Classification System —
WE’RE NOT THAT IMPRESSED — WE’RE STILL WAITING ON RDOC​

• CU RESEARCH ON GOOD BACTERIA & MENTAL HEALTH POLICY
• ​CO SHOULD EXPLORE APPLYING FOR AN: 1115 MEDICAID WAIVER TO CAPITALIZE ON CU’S BENEFICIAL BACTERIA RESEARCH (& Even Further Editorial Comment)
• The Imagine Microbiome Program in Canada

• • In the UK
  • Half of obsessive-compulsive disorder cases misdiagnosed: vignette-based survey of primary care physicians.​ (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2015)
  • Study: 1 in 10 patient deaths due to Misdiagnosis [includes medical care across the board] [NBC Nightly News]​

• Unscientific & Vague — Personality Diagnoses Are Often Abused & Must Be Reformed

Associations between sleep apnea and some cases of bipolar disorder and alzheimer’s desease and other dementias.

• NIMH Index
• NIMH Study Looking To Prevent Suicide for People Transitioning from Jail to the Community

NIMH, the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) have announced a significant collaboration on a new 4-year, $6.8 million study called Suicide Prevention for at-Risk Individuals in Transition or “SPIRIT.”

The study will address a critical gap in evidence-based suicide prevention and focus on the high-risk individuals who are transitioning from jail to community.

• NIMH Video– Heritability — Genes, Environment + Age. What Should This Mean for the Law?
• ​NIMH: Reseach Domain Criteria (RDoC)
• NIMH Compromises re: the DSM​

• WE’RE IN THE MIDST OF A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION — CHANGE IS COMING OR AT LEAST WE HOPE SO!

Neuroscience News

GENETIC TESTING, MICROBIOME SEQUENCING & BLOOD TESTS FOR SUICIDALITY

BIO-MARKERS ARE REALLY THE KEY TO REFORMING OUR TREATMENT OF COGNITIVE DISABILITY IN HEALTHCARE & THE LEGAL SYSTEM

NEUROIMMUNOLOGY & NEUROINFLAMMATION (2015): BIPOLAR DISORDER PRECEDING THE ONSET OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

There is an enormous amount of research going on involving the immune system, the microbiome & mental health.

This research seems poised to transform mental health treatment. At this point, we don’t have good mechanisms to translate this research into clinical practice in a timely manner.

​​Translating Behavioral Science into Action: Report of the National Advisory Mental Health Council Behavioral Science Workgroup

THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS: BREAK DOWN RESEARCH SILOS AND MOVE TOWARD OPEN SCIENCE

Michael P. Milham, MD, PhD, is a neuroscience researcher and the vice president of research and founding director of the Center for the Developing Brain at the Child Mind Institute in New York City. He is also a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist.

By Michael P. Milham, MD, PhD

The suffering of the 20 percent of children and adults affected by mental illness, as well as that of their families and loved ones, is a story in major media outlets.

The staggering estimates of productivity losses and societal burden and the tragic outcomes of illness (substance use,

suicide, school shootings) are the subject of political dialogue and debate.

​In response, our leaders turn to scientists for solutions.

Unfortunately, as a scientist and as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, while I am confident that we will one day get the answers we are looking for, I fear they may come at a pace too slow to meaningfully impact the current generation.

Unfortunately, as a scientist and as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, while I am confident that we will one day get the answers we are looking for, I fear they may come at a pace too slow to meaningfully impact the current generation.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-need-to-change-the-trajectory-of-mental-health-research/

AND PEOPLE WITH “MENTAL ILLNESS” ARE CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE

Scientific Revolutions are DIFFICULT for societies not so much because of the SCIENCE but because of the CHANGES that SCIENCE demands of other disciplines in the Society.

The current SCIENTIFIC – BIOLOGICAL -NEUROSCIENCE Revolution we are undergoing has PROFOUND implications for our Mental Health and Criminal Justice Systems.

Are we really worried that these disciplines/systems won’t incorporate the NEW KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDINGS & APPRECIATION OF LACK OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOME CASES— within the next 200 years?

No we’re really NOT worried about that, these SYSTEMS & DISCIPLINES will probably do it long before then.

Will the SOCIETY incorporate the new knowledge & implications of that in time for people living NOW?

NOT AT THE PACE WE’RE GOING.

OLD FRIENDS HYPOTHESIS, THE IMMUNE SYSTEM & MENTAL HEALTH

THE “BLURRED LINES” BETWEEN SOME DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES & MENTAL ILLNESSES & “SOME IDEAS” ABOUT “GIFTEDNESS”