Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology.
Brief summary follows below.
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The Monitoring the Future survey, a national poll of substance use, has shown a significant decline in young people’s drinking over the last decade, said Megan Patrick (@meganepatrick.bsky.social), research professor and the MTF panel survey’s principal investigator. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/w...
New paper out today: we show that while rare, murder-suicide events in the US are more frequent than previous research indicated; over half of homicide decedents were current or former intimate partners of the perpetrator; nearly 90% of deaths involved firearms jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Our new paper is out in @jamanetworkopen.comnow
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We used the amazing HCUP dataset to analyze >600K electronic health records from 8-12-year-olds in the emergency room for mental health or suicide risk. This covered a decade of data from 12 states in the US.
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@danielmalinsky.bsky.social says all the things that should go without saying this week in the Guardian
So curious what 'exposure to mental disorders' means...
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This has been one of the most meaningful and rewarding (and sobering) collaborations I have been involved in, especially the integration of advanced stat methods and deep substantive expertise. Crucial empirical data and results that we hope can inform policy discussions.
Our review is out today - bottom line: the risk of dying from alcohol use begins at low levels of average use
Check out our new paper in JAMA showing that reported diversions of undistributed pharmaceutical ketamine are on the rise: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39636617/
Why stop at 10? Let's go for the ultimate: personalized Americas
The basic principle is that reviewers are tired, they're rushed, they're reading your and 10 other grants on top of their normal workload.
Anything you can do to make it easy for them will help.
Here's a list of my suggestions.
The tools I've played around with are very hit or miss (mostly miss) for psychiatry too - maybe same issue??