Introduction Aphantasia, the inability to voluntarily generate mental visual images, may influence emotional processing and memory encoding. While its effects on memory and cognition have been studied, its role in traumatic memory and PTSD remains underexplored. Understanding how aphantasia interacts with PTSD, depression, and social phobia is crucial, underscoring the need for further...
Introduction Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy has re-emerged as a frontier of psychiatry, offering transformative potential for conditions resistant to conventional treatment. Personality disorders—particularly Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)—are marked by affective instability, interpersonal dysfunction, and maladaptive relational patterns that often limit therapeutic progress. MDMA’s...
Introduction Suicide is a leading cause of death in the psychiatric population. The existing modes of treatment (pharmacological and psychotherapeutic) for suicidality are effective but have longer onset, this delay causing a dangerous therapeutic gap in an acute crisis. We compare the two fast-acting treatments, the newer psychopharmacological agent Ketamine and well-established...