by michaelhalassa | Sep 14, 2025 | ADHD medication and psychosis, Algorithmic psychiatry, Chronic stimulant use, Computational psychiatry, Distributed neural systems, Dopamine and psychosis, Healthcare, Mental health treatment, Michael Halassa, Predictive systems, Psychiatry, Reward-seeking systems, Stimulant side effects, Stimulant-induced psychosis
The Portal in the Basement The EMTs who brought Stephanie to the inpatient unit looked genuinely unsettled. She’d been found at 3 AM, methodically photographing her neighbors’ houses with her phone, documenting what she described as “dimensional...
by | Dec 23, 2024 | Psychiatry
Psychiatric diagnosis is often an artful combination of science and intuition. As a psychiatric resident, I had only seen a handful of patients with a schizophrenia diagnosis, and therefore my intuition for what ‘negative symptoms’ are, was largely bookish—meaning, I...
by | Sep 12, 2024 | Healthcare, Michael Halassa, Psychiatry
Mental health care has long been dominated by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a classification system that guides clinicians in diagnosing and treating psychiatric illnesses. While the DSM has provided a standardized approach to...
