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All Friday Fun Fact Marvelous Monday Messy Media News You Can Use Tuesday Talk
9/13/2019 Tuesday Talk: Service UseWhich mental health concerns predict on-campus service use?I care about whether research on mental health impacts patient care. That starts with understanding what drives people to even seek treatment in the first place! Life is hard and treatment can be scary and stigmatizing. One of my first studies examined which common mental health concerns predict service utilization. Spoilers - alcohol use disorder predicted the most overall service use! There are many other cool findings, though. Read more here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ser0000296
#tpmh #tuesdaytalk #sciencecommunication ...federal and state policies need to get up with the times!New research from Johns Hopkins University shows that individuals who use opioids are open to the idea of a key harm reduction method - safe consumption spaces. Yet, there are federal laws that prevent implementation of these spaces. Spread the word! Contact your congressperson!
#fridayfunfact #tpmh #sciencecommunication Full Link: https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2019/safe-consumption-spaces-would-be-welcomed-by-high-risk-opioid-users.html 8/20/2019 Tuesday Talk: TreatmentLet's reduce the stigma.I care about whether research on mental health impacts patient care. That starts with understanding whether people even seek treatment in the first place! Life is hard and treatment can be scary and stigmatizing. Read more at http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ser0000296.
#tpmh #tuesdaytalk #sciencecommunication 8/16/2019 Inclusion Goes Beyond DiversityTake a moment to read this clear, succinct, and awesome article about the need for inclusive environments and policies that support our LGBTQIA+ colleagues. Long story short - LGBTQIA+ individuals have faced years of discrimination that affect their mental health. This discrimination can still be present in "diverse" environments due to outdated policies. Take a moment to cultivate an inclusive environment, not just one that is diverse.
Also, this article is an example of good science communication written by a contributor at One Minds (and posted by Forbes). Woohoo! Even though this article was written from a workplace context, it applies to colleges, too and echoes work done by Jessica here at the TPMH! #fridayfunfact #tpmh #sciencecommunication Full Links: https://www.forbes.com/sites/onemind/2019/06/17/why-workplace-mental-health-policies-must-take-lgbtq-experiences-into-account/#1f946ee45c15 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07448481.2018.1432627 7/19/2019 Family History and RemissionScience is awesome.Did you know that there is evidence for familial influences on remission from alcohol use disorder? Well...yes, everything has familial influences and sometimes findings can seem obvious, but it’s nice when our awesome colleagues do the work to provide us with scientific evidence.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28556494 #tpmh #fridayfunfact #sciencecommunication 7/16/2019 Partnerships Are KeyWe all stand on each other's shoulders.Partnerships are key to science communication! Take the TPMH as a prime example. Jess, Rachel, and Beth are scattered across the U.S. living their best post-doc lives but still regularly communicate and collaboratively run the TPMH.
Everyone needs partnerships but not everyone values them. One organization, VCU's Wellness Resource Center, values partnerships almost better than any other organization out there. Check out this podcast featuring Jess and follow them on Twitter for regular podcast links! #tpmh #tuesdaytalk #sciencecommunication 7/9/2019 Tuesday Talk About TranslationWoohoo NCATS made me happy! Let’s take a minute and digest this awesome short video from NCATS about translation. While I don’t love the exclusion of mental health from the conversation, this video is on point with its depiction of science communication. that Partnerships are key to science communication!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnHLo-hCssg&utm_source=ICTS+Contacts&utm_campaign=5c7a768264-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_28_08_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2e20227d8b-5c7a768264-117178735#action=share #tpmh #tuesdaytalk #sciencecommunication 7/8/2019 The Mystery of Big ButtsThis one should go without saying.This is an oldie but a goodie that has somehow stayed off of our TPMH radar until recently. There have been article floating around since 2007 saying that women who have bigger backsides are smarter.
It seems that the media has been playing the game telephone because a more recent article claimed that women with big backsides have smarter children. One even claimed that both women with big backsides and their children are smarter. Of course, both claims are false. Let’s dig into where the media went wrong. What the media says: This is the study that we first came across and it is the one that we will dissect below. According to this study, women with big backsides have more intelligent children. There isn’t much more to the media article than that. Interestingly, this article links to another article that debunks it! Talk about messy. Note other similar headlines here and here and here and here and here and here. Let’s dig deeper: What makes the most recent article stand out, as we said before, is its claim that children of women with big backsides are smarter. This article is very brief and succinct. It claims that a recent University of Oxford study found that women with big backsides have smarter children. They say that this is due to high amount of Omega-3 fatty acids that are in fat cells and which help promote the brain development of a fetus in utero. The article also goes off on a bit of a tangent and discusses that this same Omega-3 fatty acid also makes its way into breastmilk. This creates a nutritious diet for babies who breastfeed. It’s unclear from this article what makes the child smarter, though. Is it the omega-3 fatty acids absorbed by the growing fetus or drunk by the baby in breastmilk? What the science actually says: We were unable to find the original “Oxford” article because none of the media articles linked to it! We searched endlessly and could not find it. There were a few potentials, though. It could be this article, or this one, or this one, or this one, or this one. Only one of these was done at Oxford. Take home point: None of these articles investigated anything remotely related to women, their backsides, their children, and intelligence. Why the media is messy: Unlike other Messy Media posts where it was possible to compare the media coverage to the scientific article, this Messy Media claim seems to be 100% fabricated. It is messy because it is a lie, not just an exaggeration of scientific claims. A few messy things to note, though:
Bottom line: Do not believe everything that you read. The size of women’s backsides have nothing to do with their intelligence or the intelligence of their children. Authors Jessica L. Bourdon, Ph.D. #tpmh #messymesia #sciencecommunication The TPMH is back...again!Follow Jessica on Twitter for updated content from our blog. We’re kicking things off by talking about Jessica’s favorite topic – translating psychiatric genetic information. We were was happy to see this new article by Drs. Merikangas and Merikangas today. Let’s keep this topic in the public discussion! #tpmh #fridayfunfact #sciencecommunication
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdfplus/10.2105/AJPH.2019.304948 1/4/2019 Friday Fun Fact: 10 Years of GWASWe're back from our holiday hiatus...read our Friday Fun Fact below!Even though you read about how genetic information influences research and medical practice, we still have a long way to go in terms of such information influencing mental health care. Read all about it at https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17030283.
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