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The Biggest Medical Breakthroughs of 2024
A groundbreaking antipsychotic, a powerful new antibiotic, and a vaccine-like prophylactic for HIV are some of the most important drugs to have arrived this year.
A new $25M fund aims to give UK mental health startups a shot in the arm
KHP Ventures is raising a Β£20 million ($25.5 million) fund specifically aimed at accelerating startups addressing depression, anxiety and psychosis.
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A Popular Asthma Drug May Be Causing Brain Damage
New data collected by the FDA has found that montelukast can bind to brain cells, which may explain the risk of mental health adverse effects linked to its use.
What delusions can tell us about the cognitive nature ofΒ belief
Beliefs are convictions of reality that we accept as true. They provide us with the basic mental scaffolding to understand and engage meaningfully in our world. Beliefs remain fundamental to our behavior and identity but are not well understood.
Delusions, on the other hand, are fixed, usually false, beliefs that are strongly held but not widely shared. In previous work, we proposed that studying delusions provides unique insights into the cognitive nature of belief and its dysfunction.
Based on evidence from delusions and other psychological disciplines, we offered a tentative five-stage cognitive model of belief formation.