Bayesian Psychiatry and the Social Focus of Delusions

A large and growing body of research in computational psychiatry draws on Bayesian modelling to illuminate the dysfunctions and aberrations that underlie psychiatric disorders. After identifying the chief attractions of this research programme, we argue that its typical focus on abstract, domain-general inferential processes is likely to obscure many of the distinctive ways in which the human mind can break down and malfunction. We illustrate this by appeal to psychosis and the social phenomenology of delusions

Maine Monthly Overdose Report for April 2023

This report documents suspected and confirmed fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses in Maine during April 2023 as well as for the period January 2022–April 2023. During April 2023, the proportion of fatal overdoses averaged 7.3% of total overdoses. Monthly proportions of 2023 fatalities have fluctuated from a low of 4.5% in March to a high of 7.3% in April. During the period January–April 2023, fatal overdoses comprised 6.1% of all overdoses, slightly lower than the 6.8% for 2022

Asteroseismology, standard candles and the Hubble Constant: what is the role of asteroseismology in the era of precision cosmology?

Classical Cepheids form one of the foundations of modern cosmology and the extragalactic distance scale, however, cosmic microwave background observations measure cosmological parameters and indirectly the Hubble Constant, H0, to unparalleled precision. The coming decade will provide opportunities to measure H0 to 2% uncertainty thanks to the GAIA satellite, JWST, ELTs and other telescopes using Cepheids and other standard candles. In this work, we discuss the upcoming role for variable stars and asteroseismology in calibrating the distance scale and measuring H0 and what problems exist in understanding these stars that will feedback on these measurements.Comment: 8 pages, summary of splinter session at IAU Symposium 301, Precision Asteroseismology, August 2013, Wroclaw, Polan

Maine Monthly Overdose Report for July 2023

This report documents suspected and confirmed fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses in Maine during July 2023 as well as for the period January 2022–July 2023. During July 2023, the proportion of fatal overdoses averaged 6.6% of total overdoses. Monthly proportions of 2023 fatalities have fluctuated from a low of 4.1% in March to a high of 8.1% in April. During the period January–July 2023, fatal overdoses constituted 6.2% of all overdoses, lower than the 6.9% for the year in 2022. The total of confirmed and suspected fatal overdoses January–July, 2023, 366, is 7.8% lower than the total confirmed fatal overdoses for the same period in 2022, 397

Maine Monthly Overdose Report for October 2023

This report documents suspected and confirmed fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses in Maine during September 2023 as well as for the period January 2022–September 2023. During September 2023, the proportion of fatal overdoses averaged 6.7% of total overdoses. Monthly proportions of 2023 fatalities have fluctuated from a low of 4.1% in March to a high of 8.1% in April. During the period January–September 2023, fatal overdoses constituted 6.1% of all overdoses, lower than the 6.9% for the year in 2022. The total of confirmed and suspected fatal overdoses January–September 2023, 462, is 10.5% lower than the total confirmed fatal overdoses for the same period in 2022, 516

Maine Monthly Overdose Report for December 2022

This report documents suspected and confirmed fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses in Maine during December 2022 as well as for the period January 2021–December 2022

Maine Monthly Overdose Report for November 2022

This report documents suspected and confirmed fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses in Maine during November 2022 as well as for the period January 2021–November 2022

Maine Monthly Overdose Report for December 2023

This report documents suspected and confirmed fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses in Maine during December 2023 as well as for the two-year period January 2022–December 2023 (Table 1). During December 2023, the proportion of fatal overdoses averaged 6.7% of total overdoses. Monthly proportions of 2023 fatalities have fluctuated from a low of 4.3% in March to a high of 8.1% in April. During the period January–December 2023, fatal overdoses constituted 6.3% of all overdoses, lower than the 6.9% for the year in 2022. The total number of confirmed and suspected fatal overdoses January–December 2023 is 607, 16.0% lower than the total confirmed fatal overdoses for the same period in 2022, 723. The total number of nonfatal overdoses January–December 2023 is 9,047, 7.3% lower than the total confirmed nonfatal overdoses for the same period in 2022, 9,760

Maine Monthly Overdose Report for October 2022

This report documents suspected and confirmed fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses in Maine during October 2022 as well as for the period January 2021–October 2022