Fields remain stagnant as long as the greatest bang-for-the-buck can be gotten by just coasting on preexisting methods. The trick is doing research that finds something that is not only more effective, but also more efficient. Think of how it happened with lightbulbs. We ran on incandescent bulbs si...

The abysmal (or inadequate, at least) state of mental health in the United States is indeed conflated with issues of stigma. President Obama and Vice President Biden just recently held the National Conference on Mental Health talking specifically about this issue. In general, Americans are horribly ...

This shift away from the DSM is most immediately going to affect research - how grant parameters are set, how methodologies for answering certain questions are framed, and how these questions are asked. Today, anyone who wants to ask empirical questions about human thoughts, feelings, and behavior i...

Dr. Thomas Insel, current director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), posted a public statement on the institution's withdrawal of support for the DSM. NIMH will be re-orienting its research away from DSM categories. Going forward, we will be supporting research projects that look ac...

There is a wealth of research literature on self-injurious behavior and why it happens. Turns out, as far as scientists have empirically demonstrated, SIB is no different than any other type of behavior. Sometimes people learn to do it as a means of getting attention. Sometimes people pick it up as ...

Nodscouter wrote:It'd be interesting to set up a poll with the more common disorders (Autism, Aspergers, Depression etc...) so we could see what kind of batshit insanity is the most prevalent.

Spoiler: it's depression.It's always depression.

Spoiler 2: it's self-diagnosed.It's always self-diagnosed.

Can the devs give us a narrative of sorts on how they've approached the subject material? What kind of research went in to writing these characters with their respective quirks? What bodies of literature were looked into and what kind of review process do you folks have going? Same questions for dev...

For the past several years, I've been getting music pretty much exclusively from Bob42jh . He makes mixtapes of cool finds of the jazzy/melodic hip hop variety and posts them for free. I believe he gets to know many of the artists he features, but this is unclear a bit. He doesn't upload much to his...

It's important to make the distinction between fine details such as "disability" and "disorder" for four primary reasons. a) There is a difference and it is both more politically and technically correct to adjust the language. That is, using language that is more familiar but improper and/or outdate...

Does ADD have anything to do with autism? They are both behavioral diagnoses characterized by lower attention span and can include the associated disruptive and/or aggressive behaviors related to task redirection. Other than those very nonspecific similarities, the manifesting behaviors vary widely...

Long story short, we do understand we are not correcting a lot of the public misconception about how we are treating this game and the impediments associated with the character within - but then again we do not want to spend our energy debunking or debating what have not yet been done. We will let ...

The phrases "mental disorder" and "mental disability" show up quite frequently in posts here, even though said phrases are considerably outdated (i.e., ambiguous and potentially offensive) and refer to distinct sets of conditions. - Emotional disturbance - Personality disorder - Intellectual disabil...

Hi, folks. Got a question for the devs at Somnova? Ask it here! Lena Forst's design is particularly interesting to me and I was wondering if we could get some insight into how some of those design decisions were made? Specifically, obviously, the face restraint she is wearing. I feel safe assuming i...