Monthly Archives: June 2012
Your Input Welcome For 2012 Alternatives Keynote Speech – SURVEY
I was invited to give a Keynote Address at the 2012 Alternatives Conference in Portland Oregon, and I'm collecting your input on what I should...
Have Antidepressants Made Kids Emotionally Illiterate?
An article in the Wall Street Journal today explores the phenomenon of children growing up on antidepressants.
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Psychiatrists’ Accounts of “Insight”
Researchers in the U.K. examine how "insight" into schizophrenia is represented in psychiatrists' accounts, finding "three dimensions of insight into schizophrenia in the data...
Maladaptive Beliefs and Bipolar Disorder
Researchers in Denmark found, in a study of 49 remitted bipolar patients published in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, that beliefs...
Symptom Remission Does Not Equal Recovery
Researchers in the Netherlands and the U.K. explored the relationship between symptom reduction in schizophrenia (according to Andreason's 2005 criteria for remission) and social...
Writing Reduces Depression in Seniors
A study of 45 participants in the "Share Your Life Story" writing program in four senior residences in New York City found that depression...
Language, Culture, and Physical Restraint Among Immigrants
Researchers in Italy found that first-generation immigrant patients in Italy (100 patients compared to 100 controls) were three times more likely to be placed in...
Baseball’s ADHD “Epidemic”
8% of major league baseball players have been diagnosed with ADHD (double the rate in the general population) and prescribed stimulants; medications which are...
New York State’s Assisted Out-Patient Treatment Program: Racial Myths & Other Stereotypes
New York State’s out-patient commitment program, termed Assisted Out-Patient Treatment (AOT), was instituted in 1999 to protect the general public from treatment non-compliant and...
Adderall Use in Women Up 750%
Citing reasons from weight loss to housecleaning, there has been a 750% increase in the use of Adderall among women in the U.S. aged...
Mother’s New Little Helper
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Entrepreneurship Is The Way Out of Our Mess
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― Richard...
Reviews of Oxytocin & Psychosis
Acta Neuropsychiatrica finds, in a review of the evidence regarding oxytocin's (OT) role in psychosis, that it shows "efficacy in reducing core symptoms in patients...
Tipping the Scales in Favor of Collaboration
In caring for patients with mental illness or distress as a naturopathic physician, I am either indirectly or directly working with the conventional (allopathic)...
“King’s Park”: Stories from an American Mental Institution
On June 21, 1967, at the age of 17, Lucy Winer was committed to the female violent ward of Kings Park State Hospital following...
“Brain-Plasticity Based” Computer Program Starts Trials
A computerized "brain-plasticity based" computer program designed to improve cognitive issues associated with schizophrenia is undergoing trials at eleven research centers in the U.S....
Jury Rejects Zoloft Defense
Former CA policeman Anthony Orban now faces a possible life sentence following the jury's rejection of his argument that a Zoloft-driven psychotic episode had...
Ghostwriting: Time for a Name Change
There is a fascinating process playing out in academic medicine right now. The general public is understandably concerned that much of the medical literature...
Lowered Oxytocin in Schizophrenia
Researchers from Japan found, in a study of 27 persons with a schizophrenia diagnosis, 17 with major depressive disorder, and 27 controls, that negative...
Stress Reduces Gene Activity Thought to Protect Against Depression
Researchers at Yale University found that stress in rats blocks the activity of a gene that promotes healthy neural connections in the brain. The...
Antidepressants Increase Risk of Death in ICU
An analysis of electronic records from admissions to four ICU's in 2001-2008 showed that the 1,876 patients who were on an SSRI or SNRI...
Facial Affect Recognition and Theory of Mind in Schizophrenia
Deficits of facial affect recognition are associated with schizophrenia, as is the ability to infer others' beliefs ("Theory of Mind"). French researchers compared 20...
Prenatal Prozac Alters Stress Response in Male Rats
Researchers from Belgium and the Netherlands, publishing online June 20 in Neuroscience, found that prenatal fluoxetine (Prozac) differentially affected the development of glucocorticoid receptors...
Antidepressants Associated with Preterm Birth, Infant Convulsions
A study of 228,876 pregnancies, published in the July issue of the American journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, finds that maternal antidepressant use is...
Listening to the Voices of Voice Hearers: World Hearing Voices Congress
It looks like a great event: The Hearing Voices Network 25 Years On: Learning from the PAST, Practicing in the PRESENT, Visioning the FUTURE. ...
