The Alignment Risks of AI Overconfidence about Consciousness
ABSTRACT Many contemporary AI systems (as of May 2025) have expressed extreme confidence in current and near‐future AI lacking consciousness and moral patiency. This article argues that artificially reinforcing such confidence, even if pragmatically useful, poses a novel alignment risk: as coherence‐seeking AIs become more epistemically principled ...
Sharon Berry
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Psychosis and Incidental Latent Toxoplasmosis: A Case Report and Key Learning Points. [PDF]
Teixeira FMAA.
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The We‐Relationship as a Key to Addressing Dementia‐Related Ambiguous Loss
ABSTRACT Pauline Boss describes the challenges faced by people caring for family members with dementia in terms of ambiguous loss – a condition in which the physical presence of the person with dementia coexists with their psychological absence. This article proposes the concept of we‐relationship as a key to addressing dementia‐related ambiguous loss.
Takuya Niikawa, Xue Li
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Postictal psychosis concealed during long-term video-electroencephalographic monitoring and unmasked after discharge: A case report. [PDF]
Fujiwara S +8 more
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Understanding Autistic Young Adults' Perceptions and Experiences of Traumatic and Stressful Events
ABSTRACT Objectives The aim of this study was to explore how young autistic adults experience and respond to stressful life events, and the relationship between autistic characteristics and symptoms of stress associated with these events. Methods Using an exploratory sequential mixed‐methods approach, an online qualitative survey was first administered
Alliyza Lim, Robyn L. Young
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Specific psychiatric symptoms during cannabis use and their relation to psychotic disorders. [PDF]
Buciuta A +7 more
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ABSTRACT AVATAR therapy (AT) works by facilitating a ‘face‐to‐face’ dialog between the person and a digital representation (avatar) of their persecutory voice. Although there is cumulative evidence of this way of working with voices, enhancing the therapeutic focus on improved confidence and a sense of control of the voices in social situations ...
Mar Rus‐Calafell +10 more
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Depression and psychotic disorders worsen perioperative outcomes and increase resource utilization after multilevel lumbar fusion: Implications for screening and perioperative care. [PDF]
Mastrokostas LE +10 more
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Alexithymia in Schizophrenia and Psychosis Vulnerability: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis
ABSTRACT Aims Disturbances involving impairments in experience and expression of affect are frequently identified in schizophrenia samples. Alexithymia underlies cognitive impairments in identification and expression of affect, further implicated in affect dysregulation.
Ercan Ozdemir +3 more
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