Ryan O'Leary, MD MA
@psydactic.bsky.social
Psychiatrist, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellow, Evolutionary Biologist and host of the PsyDactic family of podcasts.
I wonder when having too many sources of information is worse than having too few.
October 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I wonder when having too many sources of information is worse than having too few.
The test of our institutions is if they can sustain huge disruption and still function.
October 6, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The test of our institutions is if they can sustain huge disruption and still function.
Maybe if we all had to pay money to be on social media we would start real conversations again. Maybe even send letters. Maybe play games together. Maybe families would speak to each other IRL.
October 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Maybe if we all had to pay money to be on social media we would start real conversations again. Maybe even send letters. Maybe play games together. Maybe families would speak to each other IRL.
Serotonin is an ancient molecule that can both bring both order and chaos to the brain. www.buzzsprout.com/1909786/epis...
Serotonin - Jack of All Trades, Master of None - PsyDactic
When I started to make this episode, I thought I would try to do a comprehensive review of all of the various functions of serotonin across its 15 or more receptor types, but I soon found myself overw...
www.buzzsprout.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Serotonin is an ancient molecule that can both bring both order and chaos to the brain. www.buzzsprout.com/1909786/epis...
Our media world keeps us focused on the present while those not commenting are often focused more on what's next.
October 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Our media world keeps us focused on the present while those not commenting are often focused more on what's next.
Hope this helps anyone confused as to how to approach the Tylenol ASD conversation as either a patient or clinician. sciencebasedpsych.blogspot.com/2025/09/acet...
Acetaminophen in Pregnancy - Shared Decision Making Based on the Best Evidence
I. Navigating a Landscape of Concern and Contradiction For those who are pregnant or planning a family, the journey is often accompanied b...
sciencebasedpsych.blogspot.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hope this helps anyone confused as to how to approach the Tylenol ASD conversation as either a patient or clinician. sciencebasedpsych.blogspot.com/2025/09/acet...
Everyone is so entrenched that we have forgotten how to reason and compromise.
September 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Everyone is so entrenched that we have forgotten how to reason and compromise.
Your Ai image of the day.
September 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Your Ai image of the day.
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social Does entanglement imply faster than speed of light travel of information?
July 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social Does entanglement imply faster than speed of light travel of information?
I may have accidentally chosen to be a psychiatrist for kids because they teach me how to see the world with so much more imagination than I had been able to muster for a long time.
June 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I may have accidentally chosen to be a psychiatrist for kids because they teach me how to see the world with so much more imagination than I had been able to muster for a long time.
Did you know we can use ultrasound to disrupt the blood-brain barrier, make cells explode or cook your insides. Michael Canney explains... #FocusedUltrasound #bloodbrainbarrier #glioblastoma
June 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Did you know we can use ultrasound to disrupt the blood-brain barrier, make cells explode or cook your insides. Michael Canney explains... #FocusedUltrasound #bloodbrainbarrier #glioblastoma
Just wanted to bump @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and Thomas Levenson that "Everyone is entitled to their own priors, but no one is entitled to their own likelihoods." open.spotify.com/episode/1aS9...
315 | Branden Fitelson on the Logic and Use of Probability
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Just wanted to bump @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and Thomas Levenson that "Everyone is entitled to their own priors, but no one is entitled to their own likelihoods." open.spotify.com/episode/1aS9...
Intracranial EEG just confirmed the distributed nature of decision making that I had pieced together (see comments for link) with an active inference framework. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
Distributed Intracranial Activity Underlying Human Decision-making Behavior
Value-based decision–making involves multiple cortical and subcortical brain areas, but the distributed nature of neurophysiological activity underlying economic choices in the human brain remains lar...
www.jneurosci.org
May 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Intracranial EEG just confirmed the distributed nature of decision making that I had pieced together (see comments for link) with an active inference framework. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
If none were to remember me,
No loss to humanity,
No ideas can I own,
All we inspired in the tomes, that I happened to read.
No loss to humanity,
No ideas can I own,
All we inspired in the tomes, that I happened to read.
May 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
If none were to remember me,
No loss to humanity,
No ideas can I own,
All we inspired in the tomes, that I happened to read.
No loss to humanity,
No ideas can I own,
All we inspired in the tomes, that I happened to read.
Leeuwenhoek took a look,
Epistemically,
And it shook the world,
Many before had foraged
With the same tool,
But we remember his Reversal.
Epistemically,
And it shook the world,
Many before had foraged
With the same tool,
But we remember his Reversal.
May 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Leeuwenhoek took a look,
Epistemically,
And it shook the world,
Many before had foraged
With the same tool,
But we remember his Reversal.
Epistemically,
And it shook the world,
Many before had foraged
With the same tool,
But we remember his Reversal.
What can I see?
I see a flea.
With my own eyes,
I see a flea.
With a light microscope,
I see a flea.
With electron microscopy,
I see a flea.
With my own mind, only,
I see a flea.
I see a flea.
With my own eyes,
I see a flea.
With a light microscope,
I see a flea.
With electron microscopy,
I see a flea.
With my own mind, only,
I see a flea.
May 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
What can I see?
I see a flea.
With my own eyes,
I see a flea.
With a light microscope,
I see a flea.
With electron microscopy,
I see a flea.
With my own mind, only,
I see a flea.
I see a flea.
With my own eyes,
I see a flea.
With a light microscope,
I see a flea.
With electron microscopy,
I see a flea.
With my own mind, only,
I see a flea.
Functional neurological symptoms are of the most frustrating things a patient can bring to their doctor... especially because their doctor may have no idea what is causing them. www.buzzsprout.com/1909786/epis...
March 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Functional neurological symptoms are of the most frustrating things a patient can bring to their doctor... especially because their doctor may have no idea what is causing them. www.buzzsprout.com/1909786/epis...
Humbled and excited to have had the opportunity to present ideas of how psychiatry can be informed by #activeinference @karlfristonnews.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Humbled and excited to have had the opportunity to present ideas of how psychiatry can be informed by #activeinference @karlfristonnews.bsky.social
The deeply personal is what has always made Dolly into Dolly Parton. youtu.be/JPzwXz1RX4s?...
Dolly Parton - If You Hadn’t Been There (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton
youtu.be
March 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The deeply personal is what has always made Dolly into Dolly Parton. youtu.be/JPzwXz1RX4s?...
Reposted by Ryan O'Leary, MD MA
Mindscape 307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails. (The principles of balance and substitution apply more widely!) #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
March 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Mindscape 307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails. (The principles of balance and substitution apply more widely!) #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Reposted by Ryan O'Leary, MD MA
Enormously harmful to the future of science. My heart breaks for these students who were excited to learn and experience research firsthand.
🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.
www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
Cancellation megathread
www.reddit.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Enormously harmful to the future of science. My heart breaks for these students who were excited to learn and experience research firsthand.
Anyone interested in an A.I. generated audio discussion of ADHD after being fed peer reviewed papers? www.buzzsprout.com/2421515/epis...
ADHD - Etiology, Epidemiology, and Differential Diagnosis - PsyDactic - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Board Study Edition
Enjoy today’s A.I. generated discussion of ADHD etiology, epidemiology, and diagnosis.Referenced resources can be found within the show transcripts at https://psydactic_caps.buzzsprout.com
www.buzzsprout.com
February 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Anyone interested in an A.I. generated audio discussion of ADHD after being fed peer reviewed papers? www.buzzsprout.com/2421515/epis...
I wonder if emergent phenomenon can be explained more easily by looking for a selection process acting on stochastic variation in a system than by looking at the individual properties of its components... @seanmcarroll.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I wonder if emergent phenomenon can be explained more easily by looking for a selection process acting on stochastic variation in a system than by looking at the individual properties of its components... @seanmcarroll.bsky.social
I don't post a lot because I think too much.
February 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I don't post a lot because I think too much.