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Readings and Videos I Enjoyed this Week

Added 2022-08-27 23:29:59 +0000 UTC

Problems in Psychology- Depression
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/07/5-httlpr-a-pointed-review/
Good ol' Scott Alexander. For those who don't know they are a psychiatrist who has been blogging for years. If you read through his stuff you will see me reference some of his ideas regularly.

Men's Issues
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1216&context=aprci
Rate of men's suicide
https://ourworldindata.org/suicide#suicide-by-gender
Suicide by gender. Our World in Data is one of my favourite websites
https://www.homelesshub.ca/about-homelessness/homelessness-101/who-homeless
Interesting stats about homelessness
https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/homelessness-statistics/
Homelessness stats

Toxic Masculinity
https://sci-hub.yncjkj.com/10.1177/1097184X20943254
Toxic masculinity emerged within the mythopoetic men’s movement of the 1980s, coined by Shepherd Bliss

Intergenerational Trauma
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378378221002188
Possible DNAm patterns in infants, thus, might capture a signature of maternal intergenerational trauma, and this effect appears to be more dependent on maternal perinatal distress and CAR in blood relative to BECs
https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/bitstream/10219/384/1/NSWJ-V7-art3-p63-85.PDF
One of the main theoretical models I have learned about its mostly qualitative work and theoretical speculation.

New Ethics by Nature for Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2
This one is a little sussy to me. It's not fully clear how these new guidelines and recommendations will play out. There are some obviously good things in here (like forcing scientists to use sex and gender separately and accurately), but there are other things that cause serious questions.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89gggeVl-qs&ab_channel=Psychlopaedia.org
Great video debunking myths about FASD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfbFEuK6ry8&ab_channel=PBSNewsHour
FASD is more common than originally speculated.
https://sci-hub.mksa.top/10.1093/alcalc/agr029
This study is a good broad review of what we know about the societal and economic impact of FASD. TLDR: there are WIDE gaps in actual findings on this
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/acer.12939
Prevlance rates of FASD vary by country and region. There is a very high prevalance of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome disorders in South Africa, while there is more partial FASD in Croatia. The rates are very heterogenous by country, for broadly self-evident reasons.