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Fed Pract
September 2024
Editor-in-Chief and Senior Ethicist Veterans Affairs National Center for Ethics in Health Care and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist, New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
Clin Neuropsychiatry
December 2024
Dr Annie Swanepoel, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, NELFT, UK.
Recent developments driven by people with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have highlighted that far from being disorders, ADHD and/or ASD can be seen as natural variations in neurodevelopment. The neurodiversity movement acknowledges that people with ADHD and/or ASD have specific strengths, that can help them outperform neurotypical individuals in certain situations and that these conditions should therefore not be seen as disorders. This view is supported by evolutionary science, which can be used as a framework to understand ADHD and/or ASD as natural variations that were not eliminated by natural selection due to their benefit to the individual and group in certain situations.
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January 2025
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly increased the levels of burnout and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress among healthcare professionals. However, research on the interrelations between burnout and psychological symptoms is scarce, particularly among psychiatrists. This study addresses this gap in a national sample.
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January 2025
King's College London, London, UK.
Waiting lists for children and young people with mental health problems are at an all-time high. Almost the only policies proposed to deal with this situation involve increasing the number of mental health professionals. Little attention is given to dealing with the underlying causative stresses, of which poverty is easily the most pervasive.
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