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First-person Shooter Video Games Cause Brain Atrophy

by Harper West | Aug 21, 2017 | Depression

Video games literally cause part of your brain to shrink, according to a neuroimaging study out of Canada. Adults who played just 90 hours of popular shooting games like Call of Duty had a loss of brain cells in the hippocampus, a part of the brain responsible for...

Psychiatry again rearranges deck chairs on the Titanic

by Harper West | Jun 12, 2016 | Depression, DSM, Uncategorized

  Edward Shorter’s blog on Psychology Today attempts to parse the difference between supposed differences in types of depression:  melancholic and one that is a mixture of “anxiety, dysphoria, fatigue, insomnia and somatic symptoms” or “non-melancholic...

Debunking the “Chemical Imbalance” Theory of Depression

by Harper West | Nov 2, 2015 | Depression, Emotions, Psychoactive Medication, Shame

Blogger Phillip Hickey, PhD, has another great Mad in America post debunking the “chemical imbalance” theory of depression based on an article on Florida State University’s DigiNole Commons. The article is a very easy read and I recommend it highly...
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