Amy Silverman, MD PC

02/04/2026

And post #2 with my second amazing book recommendation--both of these books are written by dear friends who are some of the most dedicated and knowledgeable people in their fields!!!! I have had a sneak peek at both of them and they are phenomenal reads with great tips and suggestions!!! I am honored to call these brilliant, kind, warm, caring and lovely women my friends and colleagues!!

Thank you to Caroline Maguire for such a needed book as a follow up to one of my old favorites (Why Will Nobody Play with me?). Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults is a must read! Written as only Caroline can write it!

Friendship can be hard for many Neurodivergent adults. There is an assumption that good, worthwhile friendships “should” come easy. However, for Neurodivergent adults, there are brain-based reasons why friendship can feel less intuitive. From differences in the parts of the brain that are v...

02/04/2026

2 amazing book recommendations to make today--both written by dear friends who are some of the most dedicated and knowledgeable people in their fields!!!! I have had a sneak peek at both of them and they are phenomenal reads with great tips and suggestions!!! I am honored to call these brilliant, kind, warm, caring and lovely women my friends and colleagues!! Here is the first one!! I will post the second one separately so they each get the space they deserve!!

Anne Poirier has written an amazing book on body neutrality--full of great suggestions and exercises!!

Transform your relationship with your body through practical tools and daily practices that promote self-acceptance and inner peace. Break free from diet culture and negative self-talk to embrace a compassionate, confident, and healthier you. The Body Neutrality...

09/23/2025

This is an excellent review and summary of what we know. If you are looking to do a deeper dive the links given have more data. But the slides are accessible and provide the highlights. Thank you to the team at Unbiased Science for this post!

06/26/2025

Another great reason to teach our kids to write the way we dinosaurs learned to write instead of relying on Chat GPT. Using AI to write leads to less healthy brain connectivity and makes us more average!!

A recent M.I.T. study found that subjects who used ChatGPT to write essays demonstrated much less brain activity than a group that used their own brains to write and a group that was given access to Google Search to look up relevant information. The analysis of the L.L.M. users showed fewer widespread connections between different parts of their brains; less alpha connectivity, which is associated with creativity; and less theta connectivity, which is associated with working memory. Another striking finding was that the texts produced by the L.L.M. users tended to converge on common words and ideas; the use of A.I. had a homogenizing effect. “The output was very, very similar for all of these different people, coming in on different days, talking about high-level personal, societal topics, and it was skewed in some specific directions,” Nataliya Kosmyna, a research scientist at M.I.T. Media Lab, said. A.I. is a technology of averages: large language models are trained to spot patterns across vast tracts of data; the answers they produce tend toward consensus. Other, older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers, of course. But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too. Read Kyle Chayka on the cognitive cost of relying on A.I. to perform tasks that humans previously accomplished more manually: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/hWuRQz

06/07/2025

According to a study published last month, 88% of callers to the su***de and crisis lifeline in a one year period said this call saved their lives! We can ALL help prevent the increasing rates of su***de by ensuring everyone knows about 988!!!

05/04/2025

Reading an article about people who were my first supervisors and teachers in psychiatry makes me miss those days in Boston! Loved seeing Dr. Waldinger’s happiness research profiled in the NYT!

Decades of wellness studies have identified a formula for happiness, but you won’t figure it out alone.

05/04/2025

Apparently this 1 billion dollars in school mental health funding was not “advancing (current) administration priorities.” The goal of this funding that did have bipartisan support was to double the number of school based mental health professionals across the country. Schools are uniquely positioned to meet the needs of so many kids who would be otherwise missed. the repercussions of this will be grave and far reaching. This should be a priority for EVERY administration and EVERY American!!

The Trump administration will not renew grants worth $1 billion that were aimed at boosting mental health services in schools, a Department of Education official said.

04/12/2025

If you missed the hourlong webinar I did with my friends from GapWell (creators of the College Crash Course and the Gapwell Guide) and BBYO, "From Graduation to Greatness," and may be looking for tips on how to help your student who will be making the transition from high school to college, here is the link to our discussion:

Join two distinguished BBYO alumni Seth Marshall Kessler, Co-Founder of GapWell and Amy Silverman, MD—a leading psychiatrist specializing in adolescents and ...

04/02/2025

I’m so excited and honored that my amazing college friends who started GapWell have invited me to participate with them in this virtual event hosted by BBYO!

Join GapWell as we facilitate a lively conversation with Dr. Silverman about what college-bound teens can do to set themselves up for success BEFORE and DURING their first year of college.

02/15/2025

The majority of children with psychiatric disorders already do NOT receive treatment.

Yesterday's executive order (Make America Healthy Again) charges the unqualified HHS secretary with various tasks including to assess the "THREAT posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants." We know from years of research that when prescribed by well trained child psychiatrists, these medications are safe and effective. And they SAVE LIVES!

Here is a novel idea--it might be useful to consult actual trained child psychiatrists and pediatricians to find out what initiatives might actually make our children healthier rather than spreading more misinformation that makes parents skeptical about the safety of established treatment for their children.

01/08/2025

Highly recommend these 2 free webinars about benefits of a gap year and other transitional supports for students graduating high school! And these are 2 of my excellent college friends who are set to take over the gap year space with their fabulous programming!!!

In back-to-back nights, GapWell co-founders Seth Kessler & Lee Sosin have been invited to educate families on the benefits of thoughtful growth experiences on a teen's journey from high school to career.As noted in the October 2024 issue of Town & Country Magazine, Kessler says that "You can create....

09/22/2024

The 2024 World Happiness Report indicated that the US fell out of the top 20 happiest countries for the first time since the report was published 20 years ago! It is a direct result of the significant drop in happiness in those under 30! We must do better and provide more hope for the future for our young people!

Economists and social scientists say the tendency to blame social media for Gen Z's unhappiness ignores some of the chronic pressures young people face.