mark henick ✍🏻

Bam! Bam! BAM! 💥 My book is way beyond all the modest stretch goals I set for it already. Everything else is just overflow gratitude now. Think we can get it into the Top 100? amzn.to/39INbEe #books #amwriting #mentalhealth

U.S. nursing homes are fabricating schizophrenia diagnoses to hide their use of dangerous antipsychotic drugs to subdue dementia patients, a government watchdog report found. The drugs increase risk of falls, strokes and death. wapo.st/4tfSUsr

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Max Planck (1858 - 1947)

“If Canada continues expanding assisted dying, it must answer hard questions. Are we expanding access to death faster than access to care? Are we ending lives prematurely when people could have flourished with adequate suicide prevention and support?” healthydebate.ca/2026/03/topic/…

Heavy social media use contributes to a stark decline in well-being among young people, according to the World Happiness Report 2026. The annual report also found that Finland is the happiest land in the world for the ninth year in a row. Read more: abcnews.link/qpXhBm3

As global temperatures rise, people are becoming less physically active, and this shift could lead to hundreds of thousands of additional premature deaths worldwide in the coming decades, a new study finds. abcnews.link/CEGdAW9

Eating a combination of two award-winning diets slowed aging in key structures inside the brain by over two years, according to a new study. cnn.it/3NvDPDJ

Eating a diet rich in leafy greens, berries, and fish may help keep the brain younger for longer, with this eating pattern linked to slower shrinkage in key brain areas tied to memory and thinking, according to a new study published in BMJ Neurology. abcnews.link/5Rtm55g

Students told they'd have to teach material recalled ~31% more than those preparing for a test. Nobody actually taught. Just expecting to explain something shifts your brain from passively absorbing to actively organizing

"Ninio's extinction illusion" There are twelve dots at crosses, but only a few dots are visible simultaneously. Ninio, J. & Stevens, K. A. (2000). Variations on the Hermann grid: an extnction illusion. Perception, 29, 1209-1217.

Five years ago, on March 17th 2021, the federal government granted people with disabilities who are not dying of natural causes special (discriminatory) access to assisted suicide through Track 2 MAiD (medical assistance in dying). At the time, our CEO, Krista Carr was widely quoted as saying “this is our worst nightmare.” It still is. If March 17th raises difficult feelings for you, you’re not alone. Today, at Inclusion Canada, we’re continuing work on our Charter Challenge. We’re promoting the fact that Canada must repeal Track 2 MAiD to become compliant with the CRPD (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities). And, we’re advising the government not to legalize MAiD for mental illness in 2027. Someday, may this be history.

A new report by McGill University says AI systems depend on Canadian journalism for knowledge but don’t offer compensation or proper attribution in return. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/16/ai-…

New research shows the herbal supplement Ashwagandha can ease depressive symptoms in adolescent rats exposed to chronic stress. The herb protected brain cells from damage and prevented stress-induced weight loss better than a standard antidepressant drug. dlvr.it/TRTWDM

ürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96. abcnews.link/S8BzWH0

@MarjettiPaints Ethereal

Adding another layer and some detail. One more round to go.

@sulmoney candidate biomarkers and clinically useful biomarkers are very different things

@markhenick They’re in your body, yes psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…

Are the clinically useful biomarkers in the room with us right now?

@JRBneuropsiq Please elaborate

Valid biomarkers have been found since the 19th century explaining cases of psychopathology. Each decade there new biomarkers. As they are discovered the cases are considered to be "neurological". Thus, the discourse remains that "there are no useful biomarkers in psychiatry".

This narrative review suggests mental disorders are statistical clusters of biopsychosocial properties, not sharply defined categories, mirroring concepts in species classification and supporting dimensional #MentalHealth frameworks. ja.ma/4rrTJgk

@TinaYazdani Ontario (Public Safety and Security) v. Criminal Lawyers’ Association 2010 SCC 23, [2010] 1 S.C.R. 815 established access may be constitutionally required when it is necessary for meaningful public discussion of government activity

#BREAKING The Ford government is changing its freedom-of-information law to exclude the premier, cabinet ministers and their offices from FOI requests, removing the public’s access to their records.

@m_aadil Olympic-level gaslighting is probably not the right approach here.

Academic psychiatry rejected chemical imbalance like decades ago. Today its only invoked as a straw man to argue either depression doesn’t exist or medication are ineffective.

We only experience time moving forward. But memory can both predict what comes next and reconstruct what must have happened before. In a new @biorxivpreprint preprint, we show how hippocampal development enables this flexible representation of time 🧵