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Brain scans can show what “lights up” when a symptom is experienced.
But they cannot tell whether that activity is driving, regulating, or merely responding to the symptom.
Optogenetics can.
It tests symptom causality at the level of cells, projections, and circuits.
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Depression is not ‘just a mood problem’.
Patients may improve emotionally but still struggle with attention, memory, mental clarity, anhedonia, and functional recovery.
That is where vortioxetine’s mechanism becomes clinically relevant.
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To learn more about atomoxetine’s mechanism of action and its role in ADHD treatment, click the link below and check out the full course inside The Academy:
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Led by Professor David Barton, our Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): Evidence and Practical Application course provides clinicians with a practical, evidence-based overview of TMS in modern psychiatric care.
This on-demand course explores TMS mechanisms, technical protocols, patient selection, clinical integration, maintenance therapy, and practical considerations for treatment-resistant depression and related psychiatric presentations.
In this course, you’ll learn how to:
- Understand the evidence for TMS in the management of major depression
- Identify when TMS may be appropriate in the treatment pathway
- Explain TMS mechanisms, cortical targeting, frequency, and hemisphere selection
- Communicate with patients about TMS as a therapeutic option
- Apply practical considerations around protocols, safety, maintenance therapy, and long-term management
Accreditation:
✅ 1.5 CPD hours
✅ Self-accreditable with RANZCP and other relevant psychiatric and mental health organisations
✅ Self-accreditable with RACGP
✅ Certificate of completion
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Why do patients keep repeating the same patterns even when they want to change?
Psychodynamic psychotherapy offers an answer by viewing these patterns through the metaphor of language.
Here are 6 insights that can improve your psychodynamic formulations and patient care.
Want to apply these principles in your own clinical work?
Learn practical, evidence-based psychodynamic skills in our CPD-accredited course, “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Core Principles & Clinical Applications with A/Prof Neil Jeyasingam” on The Academy:
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Autism risk is not only genetic.
ASD-related traits are shaped by a complex developmental picture:
- genes
- fetal brain maturation
- environmental exposures
- immune processes
- maternal nutrient status
Maternal vitamin D deficiency may be one part of that picture.
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Are "Feelings" and "Emotions" the Same Thing?
Linguistically, we use these terms interchangeably, assuming the difference is merely semantics.
However, studies revealed that they are distinct physiological events occurring in two different "theatres" (Damasio, 2003).
Emotion = Theatre of the Body (unconscious physiological arousal)
Feeling = Theatre of the Mind (conscious interpretation)
Here’s the neurobiological breakdown of the distinction between the two and why it matters clinically.
To further bridge the gap between the physiology of “emotion” and the psychology of “feeling,” hit the link in the comments and check out our deep dive on Psych Scene Hub, “The Neuroscience of Emotions.”
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Depression and hypothyroidism can share overlapping clinical features.
Low mood, fatigue, cognitive slowing, and poor motivation can sit in both presentations.
Here’s why checking TSH alone can miss part of the clinical picture.
Psychiatric symptoms do not always stay neatly inside psychiatry.
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Too often, autism goes misdiagnosed or missed entirely.
This course helps clinicians recognise, assess, and diagnose Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) with confidence, without defaulting to unnecessary referrals or testing.
Led by Dr James Shelly, Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Assessment & Diagnosis is designed for GPs, psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health professionals who want to improve diagnostic accuracy and clinical clarity.
Led by Dr James Shelly, Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder is designed for GPs, psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health professionals who want to improve diagnostic accuracy and clinical clarity.
In this 5-hour course, you’ll learn how to:
-Take an ASD-specific developmental history
-Identify key diagnostic domains and DSM-5 criteria
-Differentiate ASD from common comorbidities
-Use evidence-based tools (incl. ADOS-2)
-Make accurate referrals and treatment plans
Accreditation:
✅ 5 CPD hours
✅ Self-accreditable with RANZCP
✅ Part of the RACGP, ACRRM & GPMHSC-accredited Clinical Excellence in Adult ADHD curriculum
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Not every psychotic symptom after stopping antipsychotics is relapse.
In some cases, it’s a withdrawal-associated (rebound) psychosis.
Psychotic rebound can occur when D2 blockade is removed before dopamine receptors have readapted.
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