Yearly Archives: 2012
Breaking Scandal
This series of blogs outlines a scandal that brings out the limitations of RCTs and evidence based medicine. Here are the first four installments, with two more to come shortly.
David Healy, MD – Long Bio
DATA BASED MEDICINE
David Healy, MD, is an internationally known psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, scientist, and author. A professor of psychiatry in Wales, he studied medicine in...
Short Bio – David Healy
Data Based Medicine: David writes of his ongoing work as a founder ofĀ RxISK.org, whose mission is to capture the data that is missing for...
International Review of Psychiatry Focuses on Recovery
The February International Review of Psychiatry focuses on recovery, from mental health "Trialogues" in Austria, to social equality in Canada, to policy shifts from...
WHO Says Newer Antipsychotics Most Costly, Least Effective Strategy
In an analysis of neuropsychiatric conditions in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia, the World Health Organization found that inpatient treatment of schizophrenia with...
PTSD Mediates Overall Mental and Physical Health
Researchers from the University of Hawaii found that PTSD was associated with severity of depression, substance use, and overall mental and physical health in...
Peer-Led Education Improves Recovery and Hopefulness
In a study of 428 outpatients in Tennessee, researchers from the University of Chicago and the NIMH found that BRIDGES, an 8-week peer-run education...
ADHD Overtreated in Relatively Younger Children
An 11-year study of 937,943 children in British Columbia found that boys who were relatively younger than their classmates were 41% more likely to...
SSRIs Cause Delayed Head Growth and Premature Birth
In a study of 7,696 pregnant women, researchers in the Netherlands and the U.S. found that SSRIs caused slower head growth and premature birth....
Rise of Antipsychotics in Children
Researchers at Johns Hopkins explore the use of antipsychotics in children, finding a dramatic rise in off-label prescribing with little oversight or research into...
Risk of Death in the Elderly Trebled With Antipsychotics
In a nine-year study of all 2,224 residents of LeppƤvirta, Finland who were 65 years old or older, researchers found that the 332 residents...
Psychotropics Accelerate Cognitive and Functional Decline
Researchers at Johns Hopkins, The Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical School, Duke and others found in a study of 230 Alzheimer's patients tracked over four...
Early Environment Influences Schizophrenia Independent of Genetic Risk
Canadian researchers found that childhood adversity and other environmental factors such as family instability and cannabis use was associated with the development of schizophrenia,...
Oxytocin Improves Emotion Recognition in Schizophrenia
Oxytocin, a natural hormone with a role in social behaviors, has been shown to improve social behaviors in people with autistic spectrum disorders and...
Eyewitness to the Ruination of a Public Mental Health System
This blog entry is another chapter in the story of my personal odyssey as a radical therapist and human rights activist with lived experience of madness that I have been sharing on the Mad in America site. I hope it provides a meaningful look at a piece of our reform movement's history from a ground-level perspective.
Why I Prescribe
This is about neuroleptics. It is about psychosis or madness or whatever term one prefers. It is about people 18 years and older.
I take...
Thinking Holistically – attempting to change the Status Quo
In our experience, using anger or name-calling isnāt usually very effective when trying to fight the āestablishmentā or status quo. Something we teach all...
How can parents help kids who don’t want help?
Let's not keep missing the main point of the SAMHSA stakeholder discussion We have to LISTEN to people that have opposite points of view...
Antidepressant Use Associated with Brain Atrophy and Lesions in Elderly
In a study of 630 elderly Manhattanites without dementia, researchers from the Netherlands found that antidepressant use was associated with significantly more brain atrophy,...
The George Costanza Excuse for Medical Ghostwriting
Several months ago, two professors at the University of Pennsylvania were accused of ghostwriting. The university has now announced the results of their investigation, which is partially based on work by the great moral philosopher, George Constanza...
We are for truly informed choice; not anti-medications
I have had quite a few discussions with people who have not heard of the research on this site. Very often as soon as...
Antidepressant Use and Cognitive Impairment After Menopause
A study of 6,998 postmenopausal women followed over 7.5 years found that antidepressant use correlated with a 70% increased risk of cognitive impairment. The...
Becoming Dialogical: Psychotherapy or a Way of Life?
"Becoming Dialogical" is a 2011 article by Jaakko Seikkula about the shifting focus in Open Dialogue from speech to the entire embodied human being...
Review of Evidence for Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Depressive Disorders
Researchers in Germany review and evaluate the evidence for non-pharmacological treatment of depressive disorders, finding an "adequate level of evidence" for psychotherapeutic intervention, marital/couples/family...
Serotonin and Depression: A Disconnect Between the Advertisements and the Scientific Literature
MIA bloggers Jonathan Leo and Jeffrey Lacasse review the Serotonin Hypothesis as represented in advertising and as verified in scientific literature, finding a disturbing...
