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Heart of Glass

12/18/2025

Val's Take/Conjecture:

"It seemed like the real thing, only to find . . ."

I'm referring to the intellectual foundations of psychiatry over the past several decades, and finding that intellectual foundation was NOT solid.

It's encouraging that our understandings are improving --- but it is not encouraging that our Clinicians are so far behind, and for that matter patients, families, policymakers and the public.

Now will they catch-up ultimately --- after several more years they likely will catch up.

But our current system is primed to be perpetually behind without greater investment in Translational Research & Medicine.

Blondie
Heart of Glass

Fighting Neuroimmune Disorders & Ignorance

12/15/2025

"The Immune System can regulate
a whole host of brain diseases . . ." (2019)

Icahn School of Medicine
at Mount Sinai

See also: PANDAS Physicians Network

Early Recognition & Treatment of Neuroimmune Psychiatric Conditions: A Paradigm Shift in Neuropsychiatry - PANS/PANDAS (Nov. 2025)

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Fighting Neuroimmune Disorders (2019)

***Physical Health Issues, the Immune System & Mental Health Issues

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Failure to provide sufficient translational Research & Medicine is a Justice Issue

12/11/2025

Val's Take: In a complex society, there are many different "types" of "players."

Mental Health is bringing into HIGH RELIEF that we do not have sufficient TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH & MEDICINE.

We can't just add this onto the duties of traditional Researchers or Clinicians. To mix my metaphors ---switching to baseball -- we can't ask people to play both PITCHER and SHORT-STOP.

This wasn't such a big issue when psychiatric research was relatively STATIC, but now that it is TAKING OFF --- it's a HUGE PROBLEM.

We need UNIVERSITIES, ENTREPRENEURS & POLICYMAKERS to address the need for greater and more useful Translational Research & Medicine.

High School Musical

Getcha Head in the Game --
Sing-A-Long

The Gap Between Psychiatric Research and Psychiatric Practice: UNTENABLE*

12/8/2025

This Gap is hurting patients globally, but in criminal justice and homelessness the harms are obvious and expensive

Val's Take/Conjecture

There is a general recognition in the research community that PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH is undergoing a PARADIGM SHIFT.

The enormous progress in Psychiatric Research is putting into high relief the need for improved systems of Translational Research and Medicine

as well as the need for more sophisticated Public Health approaches to criminal justice and homelessness.

Donnie Jackson
Untenable

Transitional/ Translational Justice Monday

Heart of Glass

Fighting Neuroimmune Disorders & Ignorance

Failure to provide sufficient translational Research & Medicine is a Justice Issue

The Gap Between Psychiatric Research and Psychiatric Practice: UNTENABLE*

This Gap is hurting patients globally, but in criminal justice and homelessness the harms are obvious and expensive

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