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Jazmine Russell
@jazminerussell.bsky.social
Transformative Mental Health • Co-founder of @idha_nyc • Critical psychology, Mad Studies & Neuroscience scholar • Host of Depth Work Podcast • Interested in Psychosis, Trauma, and Autoimmunity
Join IDHA on December 8 for the virtual Mad Studies Symposium! Featuring over 25 activists, artists, clinicians, and scholars active in the world of mad studies who are redefining mental health & resistance. CE credits are available.

Learn more: idha-nyc.org/mad-studies-symposium
December 3, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together
#neuroskyence #philsky
www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/who-...
Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together
The mind-body problem in psychiatry has very real implications for those who suffer at the intersection of mental health and chronic illness.
www.madinamerica.com
May 2, 2024 at 5:31 PM
I got to speak with journalist Rob Wipond on Depth Work Podcast about:
- why there’s a higher suicide risk in the weeks after psychiatric hospitalization
- how giving people the label of ‘lacking insight’ is dangerous and false
- advice for family members and more
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79. Why Forced Psychiatric Interventions are More Common Than We Think with Journalist Rob Wipond
Listen to this episode from DEPTH Work: A Holistic Mental Health Podcast on Spotify. Some of the most egregious harms have been done in the name of “help,” and this is especially true when it comes to...
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March 5, 2024 at 10:49 AM
February 8, 2024 at 12:26 PM
“I think that it's so tempting for a lot of folks to buy into not just the medicalization, but this mass marketing to us that something is wrong with us, and this overpriced product is going to fix it.”- Leah Harris #psychscisky #psychology #psychiatry open.spotify.com/episode/0lKJ...
76. Menopause, Trauma & Psychosis: Holistic Approaches in Midlife & Undoing Patriarchal Conditioning...
Listen to this episode from DEPTH Work: A Holistic Mental Health Podcast on Spotify. One of the most overlooked experiences is menopause and perimenopause and impact on mental health. Societally we tr...
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February 5, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Our understanding of the brain will only get more refined as we start to look at connected physiological systems.
#neuroskyence open.spotify.com/episode/7nvD...
The Heart-Brain Connection and Substance Use with Dr. Larry Keen
Listen to this episode from Human Science on Spotify. Explore the fascinating world of psychoneuroimmunology with Dr. Larry Keen,  Director of the Behavioral and Community Health Sciences Program at ...
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January 30, 2024 at 12:47 PM
“The mistake, I argue, is to think that a commitment to listening to the patient voice in the process of perspective taking implies a threat to ‘objectivity’ in clinical practice and the very concept of evidence in the philosophy of science more generally.” www.madintheuk.com/2024/01/brid...
Bridging subjectivity and science: Lived Experience expands mental health research - Mad in the UK
Philosopher Anna Bergqvist champions the role of narrative and lived experience in mental health science.
www.madintheuk.com
January 30, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Psychological research has a replication crisis but it also has a philosophy problem - we haven’t gone back to question many assumptions made over 100 years ago especially around psychiatry and mental health concerns.
January 24, 2024 at 7:10 PM
“When people are taking mind-altering drugs that they believe corrects a chemical imbalance, you’d imagine it would be a priority to tell them if the science changes, or thinking shifts.” madinireland.com/2024/01/iris... #skychiatry #psychiatry
Irish psychiatry says chemical imbalance is 'a figure of speech,' so - what now? - Mad in Ireland
chemical imbalance theory of depression debunked
madinireland.com
January 22, 2024 at 2:06 PM
“If I don’t feel like I fit into these linear and binary systems, it’s because I don’t. It’s because they’re not actually reflective of my true nature.” open.spotify.com/episode/6PQF...
74. Returning Home to Our Bodies: Somatic Practice & Undoing Ableism with Abigail Rose Clarke
Listen to this episode from DEPTH Work: A Holistic Mental Health Podcast on Spotify. “If I don't feel like I fit in to these linear and binary systems, it's because I don't. It's because they're not...
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January 12, 2024 at 2:53 PM
“Although multivariate neuroimaging markers increase predictive power compared with univariate analyses, no depression biomarker could be uncovered that is able to identify individual patients.”

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A Systematic Evaluation of Machine Learning–Based Biomarkers for Major Depressive Disorder
This case-control study evaluates whether machine learning can identify a multivariate biomarker for major depressive disorder.
jamanetwork.com
January 11, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Reposted by Jazmine Russell
A Materialist History of Pathology and Neurodiversity: A Conversation with Robert Chapman

Capitalism has led to ever-stifling norms of mental and physical functioning, with resulting increases in various forms of illness and disability.

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-material...
January 6, 2024 at 4:21 PM
“When we peel back the shame, when we peel back the anger, when we peel back the anxiety, we oftentimes are confronted with grief. And it is in that root of grief that we can also find a lot of the liberation from the emotional pain.” -Dr. Mariel Buque open.spotify.com/episode/3JqdxF…
January 9, 2024 at 5:13 PM
“Cycle-breakers see the pain that flows through their families and say: this pain ends with me.” - Dr. Mariel Buqué open.spotify.com/episode/3Jqd...
73. Healing Intergenerational Trauma & Being a Cycle Breaker with Mariel Buqué
Listen to this episode from DEPTH Work: A Holistic Mental Health Podcast on Spotify. “Cycle-breakers see the pain that flows through their families and say: this pain ends with me.” - Dr. Mariel B...
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January 6, 2024 at 1:06 PM
“A deficiency of B12 in humans has been associated with neurological disorders that are characterized by excitatory/inhibitory imbalance such as schizophrenia, depression and migraine headaches.” neurosciencenews.com/b12-acetylch...
Gut-Brain Link: How Vitamin B12-Producing Gut Bacteria Influence Neurotransmitters - Neuroscience Ne...
A new study reveals a molecular link between gut bacteria producing vitamin B12 in the roundworm C. elegans and the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, crucial for memory and cognitive function.
neurosciencenews.com
January 5, 2024 at 9:57 AM
The top 5 Depth Work Episodes of 2023 🎉
1. Redefining “Crazy” with Thabiso
2. A Candid Conversation on Childhood Sexual Abuse with Jagger
3. Tending to Our Nervous Systems with Asia
4. The Somatics of Trauma with Luis
5. Your Voice as Your Channel with Jocelyn
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DEPTH WORK: A Holistic Mental Health Podcast — Jazmine Russell
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January 4, 2024 at 3:27 PM
“Extensive studies using linkage analysis, candidate genes, genome wide association studies [GWAS], copy number variants, exome sequencing and other approaches have failed to identify causal genes [for schizophrenia]” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Did the Human Genome Project Affect Research on Schizophrenia?
The Human Genome Project was undertaken primarily to discover genetic causes and better treatments for human diseases. Schizophrenia was targeted sinc…
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December 29, 2023 at 7:03 PM
I got to talk to Dr. James Greenblatt of Psychiatry Redefined about the links between chronic illnesses like autoimmunity and metabolic diseases and mental health concerns. Working with clients, I realized this overlap cannot be overstated. open.spotify.com/episode/6xhL...
69. Functional & Integrative Psychiatry: Nutrition & Mental Health with James Greenblatt
Listen to this episode from DEPTH Work: A Holistic Mental Health Podcast on Spotify. “Whatever happens in the body affects the brain, and what happens in the brain affects the body” - Dr. James Gr...
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December 29, 2023 at 4:19 PM
Hey folks, I’m a ex mental health crisis worker who started a transformative mental health training institute @idha_nyc and am now an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of critical psych, mad studies, and neuroscience at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain.
December 19, 2023 at 12:05 PM