Defining 'herd immunity' against anxiety and depression
On Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at the Arts Club of Washington, docu-mental will host a panel of deans from Georgetown Law, GWU School of...
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whitney mcknight / reporting on mental health
"We can't counsel our way out"
Not only can't we "counsel our way out" of the types of mental health stresses college students face, we can't keep up with the demand...
Finding meaning in the pain: the role of existential depression in our nation's opioid crisis
This is the text of my Sept. 23, 2017 acceptance speech given before the Washington Psychiatric Society for their Journalist of the Year...
Helping to build immunity to anxiety and depression: CrossTalk comes to Washington, D.C. in 2018
Join docu-mental on April 4, 2018 at the Arts Club of Washington for CrossTalk, a groundbreaking discussion that explores the...
What if psychoanalysis were available in your internist's office?
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. -- That grumpy grimace is not the face of today's pscyhoanalysis, even if it is the mug of the man who "invented" the...
Using the BRAIN to explore what is possibly the last frontier here on earth...the space between our
Before cancer purloined the moonshot moniker, the National Institutes of Health were engaged in a concerted effort to organize an...
Bidirectional ADHD: can lack of attention cause lack of attention?
In my career I have reported on occasion how Ritalin and other stimulants can be life- changing in positive ways for children and adults...
Using artificial intelligence, pediatric screening to predict psychosis
Often, persons for whom a first episode of psychosis is impending will begin to have muddled speech, and often what is called in the...
Living with psychosis: people, not specimens
Can you imagine what it might be like to suddenly hear voices telling you to do unspeakable, violent things? Variations on situations...
asking the right questions
What is health? How is it defined? These are the questions at the heart of all my work. We need to know the genesis of disease, what we...
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