Yearly Archives: 2012
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD – Long Bio
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, is Professor in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, where he also has joint...
Carl Elliott – Short Bio
Enemy of the People: Carl Elliott is a professor at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. He writes on the medical-industrial complex,...
Popularity of Off-Label Antipsychotic Use Grows
Fueled by aggressive marketing that hyped atypical antipsychotics as safe and effective for off-label uses, states an article in The Washington Post yesterday, sales of the drugs...
Poverty & Serious Mental illness: Connecting the Dots
Judging from the responses of several readers, certainly not all, to my previous post of March 7, âPoverty & Mental Illness: You Can't Have...
NYPD Whistleblower Fights Forced Hospitalization
The Village Voice reports this week on NYPD whistleblower Adrian Schoolcraft's two-year fight for justice after high-ranking NYPD officials illegally removed him from his house and had...
Ritalin Impairs Learning and Memory
Ritalin reduced impulsive responses and increased the amount of time willing to stay on task of Rhesus monkeys in a study from the University...
Scientific American Reviews “Anatomy of an Epidemic”
Scientific American calls "Anatomy of an Epidemic" one of the most disturbing and consequential works of investigative journalism "in a long time. Perhaps ever." In...
$1 Billion J&J Settlement Rejected as Insufficient
Federal prosecutors have rejected as insufficient the $1 billion settlement reached two months ago between Johnson & Johnson and prosecutors in Philadelphia to resolve...
Shooter in Family Murder/Suicide on High Level of Antipsychotics
Denis Bay had high levels of prescription drugs used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar illness in his blood on February 3, when he shot...
Women on SSRIs Less Likely To Breastfeed
In a prospective cohort study of 466 pregnant women over 10 years, researchers at the California Teratogen Information Service found that women exposed to...
Activity-Based Therapies Reduce Antipsychotic Use
Researchers from the University of North Carolina found that activity-based therapy and care reduced the use of antipsychotics in a study of 107 people...
High Levels of Antipsychotics in Shooter
Denis Bay had high levels of antipsychotics and mood stabilizers in his blood when he shot his wife and two daughters. Â 911 dispatchers described...
Increased Expectancy Explains Improved Response in Antidepressant Trials
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Sensitivity to Threatening Faces Predicts Depression
Researchers in China found that among 27 young adults with early-onset major depressive disorder matched against 25 healthy controls, MRI detected elevated response in...
Overprescribing of Benzodiazepines
Norwegian researchers found that 14.6% (27,861) of patients who were prescribed benzodiazepines used two simultaneously, despite the fact that all benzodiazepines have essentially the...
Empowerment is Vital to Dialogical Recovery
In my previous blog, I used a new term, Dialogical Recovery to describe the importance of dialogue to recovery. I and others in the...
MRI Studies
During the 1990s, researchers using MRI technology discovered that antipsychotics shrink the frontal lobes and cause an enlargement of the basal ganglia. In the...
One Hundred Years of Schizophrenia
One Hundred Years of Schizophrenia. Hegerty, J. American Journal of Psychiatry 151 (1994):1409-1416.
In 1994, Harvard Medical School researchers reported that outcomes for schizophrenia patients in the U.S....
The Vermont Longitudinal Study & Correction of Seven Myths
In a long-term study of schizophrenia patients released during the late 1950s and early 1960s from the back wards of Vermont State Hospital, Courtenay...
Schizophrenia: Manifestations, Incidence and Course in Different Cultures
Schizophrenia: Manifestations, Incidence and Course in Different Cultures.Jablensky, A. Psychological Medicine, supplement 20 (1992):1-95.
The second WHO study was called the Determinants of Outcome of Severe...
The International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia
The International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia. Leff, J.Psychological Medicine, 22 (1992):131-145.
The first World Health Organization study that compared schizophrenia outcomes in "developed" and "developing" countries...
Drug-induced Supersensitivity Pscychosis
In the late 1970s, Canadian investigators identified the biological changes caused by antipsychotics that lead to the high relapse rates. Because the drugs dampen...
The Cure May Be Worse Than the Disease
Maintenance Antipsychotic Therapy.  Cole, J. American Journal of Psychiatry, 132 (1977): 32-6.
In 1977, Jonathan Cole, the former head of the NIMH Psychopharmacology Service Center, concluded that...
The Soteria Project.
During the 1970s, the head of schizophrenia studies at the NIMH, Loren Mosher, conducted an experiment that compared treatment in a homelike environment (called...
Are There Schizophrenics for Whom Drugs May be Unnecessary or Contraindicated?
Are There Schizophrenics for Whom Drugs May be Unnecessary or Contraindicated? Rappaport, M. International Pharmacopsychiatry, 13 (1978), 100-111.
In this 1978 study, Maurice Rappaport and his colleagues at...
