Personal blog of Dr Alex Mendelsohn

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Moving to the Psychiatric Multiverse

Hello everyone. It has been a very very very long time since I last posted. I thought I could run a personal blog alongside my new Substack publication “The Psychiatric Multiverse”.1

But I tremendously underestimated the amount of effort and time it would take for recovery.2

So I’m going to be eventually turning this website into a personal page, rather than a blog. Thanks very much for being interested in this blog over the past few years – it is much appreciated!

Please do subscribe to my Substack if you want to continue reading my writing. Hopefully I’ve managed to produce a nice little embed below. If I’m running into technical difficulties, the link is here: https://psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/


  1. The about page is here: https://psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/about ↩︎
  2. And I was technically locked out of my wordpress account for a while after inadvertently removing 2FA codes from my mobile after factory resetting it… whoopsies! ↩︎

The time psychiatry forgot about notation: the 12-hour lithium level

This article is about the recently published article Dr Aftab and I have published in the Psychiatric Times: Future Proofing Lithium Pharmacokinetic Research


I know that lithium pharmacokinetics is not exactly the sexiest subject in the world. I definitely know that the proper use of notation isn’t.

However, improper (or lack of) use of notations in research can cause an otherwise good research paper to be uninterpretable.

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