This is a super exciting opening with the best mentor you could ask for!
@healthtalkscic.bsky.social is an amazing initiative! Many stories follow the same pattern: people are living with mental-health challenges for years before anyone names what’s happening. The delays are heartbreaking and call for scalable tools that can identify & support people much earlier.
New paper in @brain1878.bsky.social: Healthy people under S-ketamine, an NMDAR antagonist, and people living with schizophrenia, a disorder associated with NMDAR hypofunction, spend more time in an external mode of perception - where noisy sensory signals override knowledge about the world.
This is the sobering reality of my morning coffee: 1 billion people are living with a mental-health condition. Countries spend no more than $65 per person on mental health, with 13 mental-health workers for every 100k people.