This article reports that neurological conditions are more common among people diagnosed with severe mental illness, with dementia and Parkinson’s disease showing notably higher odds several years after the psychiatric diagnosis. The findings come from a UK primary care cohort analysis and discuss potential overlaps between mental and neurological health.

This topic is of interest to psychology readers because it highlights the interconnectedness of brain-related conditions and the way psychiatric diagnoses can intersect with neurological risk, prompting consideration of how mental health trajectories relate to broader neurobiological processes.

Article Title: Many neurological conditions are more frequent among individuals with severe mental illness

Link to PsyPost Article: https://www dot psypost.org/many-neurological-conditions-are-more-frequent-among-individuals-with-severe-mental-illness/

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#Neuropsychiatry #NeurologicalConditions #SevereMentalIllness #Dementia #ParkinsonsDisease

This brief highlights a mechanistic target in an autoimmune brain disorder, offering a concise point of relevance for clinicians focused on neuropsychiatric presentations. Understanding the NMDA receptor-centered pathophysiology informs caseload awareness where psychiatric symptoms intersect with neuroimmune processes, aiding differential thinking and collaboration with neuroscience colleagues.

Article Title: New drug target discovered for devastating “brain on fire” disease

Link to Science Daily Mind-Brain News: https://www dot sciencedaily dot com/releases/2026/02/260225081150 dot htm

#brainhealth #neuroimmunology #NMDAreceptors #neuropsychiatry #autoinflammatorydisease

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Casebook of Neuropsychiatry by Trevor A. Hurwitz, 2013

Casebook of Neuropsychiatry provides a fascinating tour of the critical subspecialty of neuropsychiatry, which combines neurology and psychiatry to address organic disturbances in the central nervous system that give rise to mental diseases.

#books
#nonfiction
#neuropsychiatry

Molecular Glue of the Brain: Cell Adhesion Molecules and Synaptic Stability

#Neuroscience #BrainScience #Synapses #NeuronalCircuits #Neuroplasticity #ExcitatoryInhibitoryBalance #DendriticSpines #ExtracellularMatrix #Interneurons #CognitiveHealth #Neurobiology #BrainDevelopment #NeuralConnections #Neuropsychiatry #BrainFunction

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"A demon acting from the outside, a magic filter to fall in love, a god gaining power of a mind and unbalancing its humors, a monster sitting on the chest provoking a nightmare, a whispering angel: across the millenniums and the lands, the humankind tried to explain mind phenomena as the result of the action of external factors. [...] If ancient Greeks were thinking of entities able to manipulate a brain in different ways, we can nowadays hypothesize a mathematical operator acting on the network structure of the brain, and precisely on its connections, to obtain the key features of neurological disorders as specific cases."

(Mannone et al., 2024)

In the image: "The Nightmare" by Füssli.

#Krankheit-operator, #K-operator, #Physics, #Neurology, #Neuropsychiatry, #Data Analysis, #ComputerEngineering

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/cha/article-abstract/34/5/053133/3294604/Modeling-a-neurological-disorder-as-the-result-of?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjs/s11734-024-01345-6

#RobertBilder -# Neurosychology: #MentalHealth and #Illness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_JaJSUuFko

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfPsychology #Psychology #Psychiatry #Medicine #NeuroPsychiatry #Syndromes #Diagnosis #Biology #MentalDisorder #MentalDisorders #Wellness #PsychoPathology #Brain #BrainImaging #Imaging #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

About 1 in 5 adults in the United States are coping with the symptoms of a mental health disorder. In this week's post Julia Riley describes a clinical technique called TMS that uses magnets to directly alter brain activity and discusses how it’s helping us learn more about some mental illnesses.

https://pennneuroknow.com/2024/11/26/magnetic-manipulation-of-brain-activity-to-treat-mental-illness/

#sciComm #neuroscience #neuropsychiatry #brain #TMS #depression