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Matcheri Keshavan, MD @keshavanms

Academic Head of Psychiatry @BIDMChealth. Cobb Chair of Psychiatry @harvardmed. Editor @schizres @labkeshavan #Schizophrenia #NeuroImaging 🧠👨🏾‍⚕️

Joined May 2009
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Just published: our perspective paper on reframig schizophrenia in a non-stigmatig, scietifically accurate manner Reframing schizophrenia as a neurodevelopmental syndrome: The scientif... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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Here is our paper on why chatbots might increase psychosis risk in vulnerable individuals Do generative AI chatbots increase psychosis risk? - Keshavan - 2026 - World Psychiatry - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Do generative AI chatbots increase psychosis risk?

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Just published: Yoga is effective for opiate withdrawal and may owe its effects to improving sympathovagal balance. Kudos to our collaborator Dr Hemant Bhargav and colleagues from NIMHANS, India Yoga for Opioid Withdrawal and Autonomic Regulation jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Yoga for Opioid Withdrawal and Autonomic Regulation

This randomized clinical trial examines the efficacy of yoga as adjunct therapy to standard treatment for opioid withdrawal among patients with opioid use disorder.

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Just published: Our paper "Breathing and the brain: Pranayama, an ancient self-directed approach to neuromodulation" -Any comments would be appreciated. authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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Renaming schizophrenia: why, how, and what next? : Current Opinion in Psychiatry Just out: our paper on the renaming of schizophrenia which is gaining momentum journals.lww.com/co-psychiat…

Renaming schizophrenia: why, how, and what next? : Current Opinion in Psychiatry

cent findings Proponents argue that the current term perpetuates stigma, is scientifically outdated, and that stakeholders, including those with lived experience, favor a name change. Opponents,...

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Just out Early biomarkers in psychosis
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Great paper by Urvakhsh Mehta et al at NIMHANS: Posterior Cerebellar Resting-State Functional Hypoconnectivity: A Neural Marker of Schizophrenia across Different S… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3833…

Posterior Cerebellar Resting-State Functional Hypoconnectivity: A Neural Marker of Schizophrenia...

Posterior cerebellar-thalamo-cingulate hypoconnectivity is a consistent and stable state-independent neural marker of schizophrenia.

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Just published by Synthia Guimond: Enlarged pituitary gland volume: a possible state rather than trait marker of psychotic disorders pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3835…

Enlarged pituitary gland volume: a possible state rather than trait marker of psychotic disorders -...

Although pituitary volumes were not increased in psychotic disorders, larger size may be a marker associated with more severe symptoms in the progression of psychosis. This finding helps clarify...

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The schizophrenia syndrome, circa 2024: What we know and how that informs its nature pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3808…

The schizophrenia syndrome, circa 2024: What we know and how that informs its nature - PubMed

With new data about different aspects of schizophrenia being continually generated, it becomes necessary to periodically revisit exactly what we know. Along with a need to review what we currently...

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Neuroscience in pictures:1. History of psychiatric neuroscience pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3815…

Neuroscience in pictures:1. History of psychiatric neuroscience - PubMed

Our understanding of the brain basis of mental illness has evolved over three and half millennia. Early insights into the role of the brain in relation to the mind faded during the middle ages as...

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Know thyself (Jnana Yoga): Psychotherapeutic insights from the east pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3819…

Know thyself (Jnana Yoga): Psychotherapeutic insights from the east - PubMed

Humans have asked themselves the question "who am I" from ancient times. Vedic, upanishadic and buddhist philosophers have pointed out over millennia the illusive nature of the individual self, and...

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Neuroscience in pictures:1. History of psychiatric neuroscience sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Just out.. Here is a future -looking, (yet preliminary) way to treat psychiatric illnesses A pilot study to investigate the efficacy and tolerability of lesion n... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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Veteran actor and psychiatrist Mohan Agashe is speaking on mental health via the lens of Film this friday 11 am: everyone can attend harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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What’s Next on Mental Health: Making the System Work for People Living With Schizophrenia – Alliance for Health Policy allhealthpolicy.org/whats-ne…

What’s Next on Mental Health: Making the System Work for People Living With Schizophrenia |...

This webinar, held on World Schizophrenia Day in partnership with the Schizophrenia and Psychosis Action Alliance, aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the needs of people living with...

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Review of Major Social Determinants of Health in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Psychotic Disorders: I. Clinical Outcomes academic.oup.com/schizophren…

Review of Major Social Determinants of Health in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Psychotic Disorders: I....

AbstractBackground. Social determinants of health (SDoHs) are receiving growing attention and are particularly relevant to persons with schizophrenia-spect

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