Orchid A-Z Index

WHAT'S THE POINT?

Understanding the Immune System as a Key Component of Neuro-Developmental & Psychiatric Disorders is a MAJOR PARADIGM SHIFT.

Is it the final word --- probably not. But we need to shed our antiquated understandings so we can get to something BETTER.

The many roads to mitochondrial dysfunction in neuroimmune and neuropsychiatric disorders (2015)

*Wales and Australia

Immune Dysregulation in Bipolar Disorder:
The Role of IL-27 and EBI3 (2025)

*Researchers from Iran & the UK

The China Brain Multi-omics Atlas Project (CBMAP) (2026)

Prospective association between maternal allostatic load during pregnancy and child mitochondrial content and bioenergetic capacity (2022)

Mitochondria: A Unifying Link for Psychiatric Illness
Psychological stress gets embedded in our system by altering metabolism. (2024)

A multi-omic approach implicates novel protein dysregulation in post-traumatic stress disorder (2025)

*US

Mitochondrial dynamics and psychiatric disorders: The missing link (2024)

*Greece

Microglia as hunters or gatherers of brain synapses (2025)

Role of the T-cell network in psychiatric disorders (2021)

Crisis Services in Colorado, the US & Around the World

Val's Take/Conjecture

One of the BIG CHALLENGES is LAW and POLICY MAKING currently have GREATER INCENTIVES to CLOSE the RESEARCH-to-PRACTICE Gap than Clinicians.
For Mental Health Clinicians, many of them are not even aware that the RESEARCH is UNDERMINING the FOUNDATION of their Profession.
Clinicians will ultimately have incentive to close the Research-to-Practice Gap, but "MEANWHILE" --- it's a HUGE, FRICKIN' PROBLEM.
For Law and Policy Making, these advances have MORE THAN THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS ---- because the LAW is SO CONCEPTUAL.

Whether Researchers understand it or not, they have done a pretty good job of undermining the Intellectual Foundations not only of Mental Health but also of the Criminal Justice System.
Mental Health Experts didn't tell Courts around this Country and Internationally that we were dealing with Developmental Disorders that involve Multiple Systems of the Body with Neuro-Immune Mechanisms being a BIG DRIVER.

HEY ---- THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAID!!!!
Now --- they didn't lie --- BUT they didn't get it right either.

"Dr. Mark Bauer, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. JoAnn Kirchner, past Director of the Veterans Healthcare Administration Behavioral Health Quality Enhancement Research Initiative and staff at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, discuss how physicians and other health care leaders can better translate research into practice using implementation science frameworks."