Yearly Archives: 2012
Long-Term Antipsychotic Treatment Causes Brain Tissue Loss
In 211 patients studied for up to 14 years, Nancy Andreason et al. found measurable brain tissue loss associated with antipsychotic use. The results...
Mental Illness Mortality is Climbing
Mortality rates in schizophrenia and bipolar patients in the year after hospitalization were about double the national average and rising, according to this study...
Medical Model Does Not Increase Social Acceptance
A review of all studies of mental illness-related beliefs and attitudes in the general population published before March 31, 2011 found that understanding of...
A Pharmaceutical Company That Agrees With Irving Kirsch? Wellbutrin Advertised as 10% More Effective...
Irving Kirsch (the psychologist who has argued that antidepressants offer a marginal advantage over placebos) has agreement from an unlikely source- advertisements from a pharmaceutical company, which agree completely...
EEG Shows That Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Improves Brain Function in Bipolar Disorder
In a study of 12 patients with bipolar disorder and 9 controls, researchers found that after an 8-week training in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy...
CBT Helpful For Benzo Discontinuation
CBT helps in benzo discontinuation, over and above relaxation training and contact with a therapist. Published in Behaviour Research and Therapy.
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Potential Adverse Effects of Discontinuing Psychotropic Drugs
Abrupt discontinuation can paradoxically cause the same effects as both medications and illness itself, this study in the Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental...
Avoiding Antipsychotic Sedation Can Improve Outcome
Sedation from antipsychotics can be mistaken for negative symptoms as well as increase noncompliance, this study in the African Journal of Psychiatry says, and...
Better Broadband
So many treatment colleagues have shared that prior to finding an approach that really works to turn a childās intensity to greatness, they felt no recourse other that to look for ways to moderate the accelerating poor choices that children they worked with were making. Most relevant here is, that in retrospect, they felt that it boiled down to simply being faithful to their training, which it turns out so often is a set up to fail with difficult children.
Childhood Adversity Changes Stress-Related Gene Expression
Researchers in Rhode Island and New Hampshire examined 99 healthy adults for changes related to stress hormones, and asked about their childhood attachment experiences....
Thinking Holistically
I am a board certified psychiatrist and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. I mention these things only to indicate that I...
1 in 4 Adults With a Mental Illness Has Been A Victim of Violence...
In a meta-analysis funded by the World Health Organization and published in The Lancet, studies of 21,500 disabled individuals from Australia, Canada, New Zealand,...
Cumulative Risk of Impairment and Death From Anticholinergic Medication
The New York Times reportsĀ that a two-year longitudinal study of over 13,000 men and women over 65 found that anticholinergic medications, which include many...
Deficits in Psychosis Linked To Childhood Trauma Via Brain Changes
In a study of 83 patients and 63 controls, researchers in Norway and the U.K. investigated Ā deficits in attention, concentration, language and verbal intelligence...
Elizabeth Stuyt, MD – Long Bio
THINKING HOLISTICALLY
Libby Stuyt, MD, is the Medical Director for the Circle Program at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo, Colorado, a 90-day inpatient...
Elizabeth Stuyt – Short Bio
Thinking Holistically: A psychiatrist and medical director of an innovative, 90-day inpatient treatment program in Colorado for people with chemical dependence and mental illness...
The Depression Diagnosis Under Scrutiny
Researchers in Denmark find that the diagnosis of depression in the DSM-IV contains at least 1,497 possible combinations of symptoms, with the potential for...
Paranoid Symptoms Arise From Social Phobia/Trauma
In a 10-year longitudinal study of 3021 participants, researchers in The Netherlands, U.K., Germany and Switzerland find that paranoid symptoms are associated with social...
Vote NOW for solutions to emotional distress!
If you want solutions for emotional distress, vote NOW! Vote for the distress model and vote for Aunt Bertha.
1) Vote now for the distress...
The Shame Game of “Patient Responsibility”
On one hand the use of prescription drugs in mental health treatment has been compared to insulin for the diabetic. You never hear about...
Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
(Note: Read Bruce Levine's latest post:Ā Anti-Authoritarians and Schizophrenia: Do Rebels Who Defy Treatment Do Better?
In my career as a psychologist, I have talked with...
The Emperor’s Antipsychotic Drugs
I avoid drug reps but I can not stop them from finding me through the mail. Over the past few months, I have received reprints of an article from The American Journal of Psychiatry (1), reporting on a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of lurasidone from the company that makes this drug. Since I had it in my hands, I read it. What I found was surprising. Rather than leaving me impressed by lurasidone, it left me wondering what happened with olanzapine (Zyprexa).
Bruce Levine – Long Bio
COMMONSENSE REBELLION
Bruce E. Levine, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio.Ā His latest book is Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists,...
Bruce Levine – Short Bio
Commonsense Rebellion:Ā Bruce E. Levine, a practicing clinical psychologist, writes and speaks about how society, culture, politics and psychology intersect. His latest book is Get...
