Named after Don Norman who wrote The Design of Everyday Things

Amnesty: Egypt steps up brutality with abduction and torture of human rights defender

This is a press release by his family on the latest updates including the torture that he has been subjected to

مغردون عرب يطالبون بنقل مكتب تويتر من دبي ويتهمون الإمارات بالتضييق على المغردين

Is It Time to Rethink Parkinson’s Disease?

"Working less, in short, is not some luxury, but a necessary part of our progress as human beings."

My review of @SameiHuda's book on the medical model in mental health:

Urban planning without a plan. Build it, but they'll need more to make them come. #Egypt

Opiates & Us - great cartoon series!

A Photographic History of Addiction Recovery in the U.S.

Reminder about warning patients of the neuropsychiatric side effects of Montelukast (an add on asthma medication):

New educational video (in Arabic) on mental health and the heart القلب وصحتنا النفسية: فيديو تعليمي

Forecasting the onset and course of mental illness with Twitter data

Oliver Sacks: The Healing Power of Gardens #Health #Gardens #greenspace #greeninfrastructure

Purdue, Sacklers offer bankruptcy, $10-12 billion for opioid settlement: Report #opioidcrisis

Interesting piece on the long-standing mystery of whether streptococcal infection can trigger OCD in some kids

And Egypt is third biggest importer of Brazilian beef.

Never Google your symptoms 😄

One woman was all that stood between thalidomide and America.

New law to impose tax on social media ads, online services: Egypt’s finance minister

Google is deepening its involvement with Egypt's repressive government by Vic Ryan

Older adults do not sleep as well as younger adults. Why?

‘Rat Park’ is the name given to a series of studies undertaken in the late 1970s by Bruce K. Alexander and colleagues. They found that rats housed in enriched environments consumed less morphine solution than those in isolated cages, when rats were pre‐exposed to morphine, naive to morphine, and whether they had spent their early life in isolation or in enriched housing. The measured conclusions from the authors at the time have become somewhat lost in translation.

This article provides a historical and contemporary overview of e-cigarettes and vaping. The reader will gain an understanding of e-cigarette usage, risks and benefits, the current position on use of e-cigarettes in mental health settings, and tips on how to take an e-cigarette/vaping history and how to offer advice about use.

Very good Reuters report on the dramatic increase in death sentences and executions in Egypt.