#Confabulation

Prof Lisa Bortolotti 🇪🇺

lisabortolotti

For #MHAW2020 I will share some of the research interests of our wonderful @IMH_UoB and @PTRBirmingham PhD students /1 Let’s start with @RRitunnano who is asking whether #delusions can have

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Fact checking is a worse-than-useless approach to counter programming bullshit. Brandolini bullshit assymmetry principle —“It takes 10x more effort to refute bullshit than to produce it” — applies doubly to

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ Late last month, Dr. Bill Foege—@CDCgov Director '77-83, central figure in smallpox eradication, former Task Force for Global Health & Carter Center leader, Senior Fellow at the @gatesfoundation, and

John M. Talmadge, MD

JohnMTalmadgeMD

1/4 #Presidementia #TrumpDementiaSyndrome #TDS Monday WH Q&A: Trump's mental decline was dramatic & obvious today as he revealed that he's taking hydroxychloroquine. He rambled about it & told a "Sir"

John M. Talmadge, MD

JohnMTalmadgeMD

(1) #Presidementia #TrumpPressConference 04/21: 6:20 pm The most significant takeaway from each Trump press conference is the same. Trump does not answer questions. He reacts by using three defenses common

John M. Talmadge, MD

JohnMTalmadgeMD

#Presidementia Liar’s Club Update: Prevarication (lying, gaslighting) is a symptom of diseases like #Alzheimers—runs in families & destroyed Trump’s dad. Confabulation (bullshitting) & confusion/memory loss (calf splatter) are also signs

Daniel

PsyPhiDanny

Have you ever heard: "A muslim scientist discovered gravity"? or maybe "The first psychiatric hospitals were built in Iraq"? then you've felt the aftershock of when from 2005-2012 "Jagged 85"

Simon Rosenberg

SimonWDC

1/So, do we expect the states to be on their own to fightan invading army?a surge at the border? cyber attacks from hostile nation states?a serial killer who crosses state

Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾🌹

blogdiva

with news of the suppressed news about Trump’s stroke, this is relevant. people in the Dark Tetrad peddle in delusions & confabulation. on the other hand, people with dementia ―which

💙 ℹ️ Not The Torygraph 💙 #SaveOurNHS

TweetForTheMany

1/x With a #GeneralElection looking more likely I wanted to pre-empt what is likely to be another major attack on Labour by looking in to the way some matters have

danny miranda (podcast 🚀 Sept. 23)

heydannymiranda

Read a book recently that flipped my world upside down.This Will Make You Smarter asks: “What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?”Here are 38 of the most thought-provoking insights