Mental health and consciousness are intertwined. Basic subjective experiences like feeling good, bad or depressed, or perceiving your surroundings “accurately” relate to conscious processes. The field of consciousness research can deepen our understanding of these experiences and also exceptional occurances – like how hallucinations happen or how sensing your own body can be disturbed in dissociative states. Research in the area of predictive processing has greatly expanded over the last deca...
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Mental health and consciousness are intertwined. Basic subjective experiences like feeling good, bad or depressed, or perceiving your surroundings “accurately” relate to conscious processes. The field of consciousness research can deepen our understanding of these experiences and also exceptional occurances – like how hallucinations happen or how sensing your own body can be disturbed in dissociative states. Research in the area of predictive processing has greatly expanded over the last deca...
Should We Stop Prescribing Antidepressants for Depression? (with Prof. Joanna Moncrieff)
What’s Next in Mental Health?
1 hour 5 minutes
2 years ago
Should We Stop Prescribing Antidepressants for Depression? (with Prof. Joanna Moncrieff)
Over the decades, the pharmaceutical industry and parts of the psychiatric profession lead us to believe that depression was caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain and that antidepressants helped correct it. Now a new effort is being made to say that antidepressants are effective, even if the biological mechanism is unclear. The problem is that both these narratives have been falling apart in the background for a long time. Surprisingly for many, the difference in efficacy between a plac...
What’s Next in Mental Health?
Mental health and consciousness are intertwined. Basic subjective experiences like feeling good, bad or depressed, or perceiving your surroundings “accurately” relate to conscious processes. The field of consciousness research can deepen our understanding of these experiences and also exceptional occurances – like how hallucinations happen or how sensing your own body can be disturbed in dissociative states. Research in the area of predictive processing has greatly expanded over the last deca...
