When we use the term "mental illness", not brain illness, do we put our patients in harm's way? .........Drs Mary Baker and Matthew Menken Baker and Menken challenged their colleagues in the medical profession with this question in an article titled "Time to Abandon the Term Mental Illness" - published in the British Medical Journal, … Continue reading Euthanizing the So-called Mentally Ill – Not Just a Flippant Remark by a Political Commentator about homeless people…It’s A Reality
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ANOSOGNOSIA – A Catastrophic Neurological Symptom in Jacobi Fleming Nasse Syndromes (“Schizophrenia”)
Advocates often describe anosognosia as someone who is so sick, that they don't know they are sick. That's an inadequate description of the condition because it does a disservice to those who commit acts of harm toward others because of the condition. What does it mean for a person to "know they are sick" in … Continue reading ANOSOGNOSIA – A Catastrophic Neurological Symptom in Jacobi Fleming Nasse Syndromes (“Schizophrenia”)
Medicine should have abandoned the construct of “Primary Psychiatric” a long time ago.
Article: Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Major Neurocognitive Disorders as a Model for Understanding Neuroanatomic Dysfunction in Primary Psychiatric Disorders Advances in neuropsychiatry are increasing ourunderstanding of brain-behavior relationships. With thisknowledge, the classification of illnesses as psychiatric and neurologic appears increasingly out –datedjscimedcentral.com
Punishing Brains, We Know Not What We Are.
Before the criminal justice system can begin to curtail punishing the symptomatic behaviors of severe mental illness to the extent that it needs to, we must come to terms with what we are as human beings. As it stands now, many of us hold near absolutist notions of what makes us good or evil beings … Continue reading Punishing Brains, We Know Not What We Are.
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