Yearly Archives: 2012
Jonathan Leo, PhD – Long Bio
RETHINKING BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
Jonathan Leo, PhD, is a Professor of Neuroanatomy at Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine. His research examines the biological basis...
Chapter Twenty-Four: Off the Meds and Out of My Mind
During my first few days on the locked psychiatric unit of the hospital on the hill in early December 2008, I counted the passing...
Schizophrenia, Trauma and The Immune System
To test the hypothesis that a heightened immune system response associated with schizophrenia is also associated with childhood trauma, researchers in Ireland looked at...
So This Is Texas 2
Allow me to introduce myself to you... I'm a California transplant and now live and work in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex where I...
Antipsychotics for Dementia: Not Justified and Risky
In a study of antipsychotics used to treat 75,445 patients in nursing homes in the United States, researchers from Harvard Medical School, Columbia and...
NH Wins $10 Million to Expand Fitness Program
New Hampshire's SHAPE program to promote physical fitness for the mentally ill has been so successful that the federal government has awarded $10 million...
The American Psychiatric Association’s Response to 60 Minutes: Where is the Science?
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has posted a response to the 60 minutes segment on Irving Kirsch and the placebo effect in antidepressant research. But is their response based on scientific data?
Alison Bass – Long Bio
ALISON BASS
Alison Bass is a Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, which...
Alison Bass – Short Bio
A former medical and science writer for The Boston Globe, Alison Bass writes  about conflicts of interest in medicine and flaws in the way drugs...
Interpreting Harrow’s 20-Year Results: Are the Drugs to Blame?
Martin Harrow has just published his 20-year outcomes data for schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Those who took antipsychotics regularly experienced more psychosis, more anxiety, cognitive impairment, and markedly fewer periods of "sustained recovery." Harrow asks: "Is very long-term treatment with antipsychotic medications undesirable?"
Better Recovery and Less Relapse Without Meds: A 20-Year Study
Researchers at the University of Illinois College of Medicine found, in a 20-year prospective study of 139 psychotic patients, that patients had a far...
The Cause and Solution for Emotional Distress
Hi, I'm Corinna West, a psychiatric survivor. Â I was very ill one time and now I'm not. That's the short story. The slightly longer...
Response to 60 Minutes
On February 19, 2012, Lesley Stahlâs âTreating depression: is there a placebo effect?â aired on CBS 60 Minutes. Stahl is to be commended for...
Short-Bio — Jonathan Leo
Rethinking Biological Psychiatry: A professor of neuroanatomy, Jonathan Leo writes on the problems with the evidence base used to support the often promoted chemical...
Psychosis as a Basic “Disturbance of Self”
Researchers in Australia and the U.K. found that a basic disruption of the sense of ownership of one's experience and a lack of self-agency...
Criticism of the DSM Goes Mainstream
Criticism of the upcoming revision of the DSM has gone mainstream, with Forbes Magazine weighing in on the economics of medicalizing grief, and Fox News questioning the...
Jen Padron – Short Bio
On Visioning A Peer Workforce:Â Jen Padron, a leader in peer support initiatives, focuses on the groundswell supporting the growing prominence of peer providers who...
Jen Padron, MED, CPS – Long Bio
ON VISIONING A PEER WORKFORCE
Jennifer Maria Padron is a national advocate for mental diversity in community public mental health care, outspoken activist, and a subject...
Surviving Schizophrenia: A Memoir
I was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was just nineteen. I am forty-three now, and I have recovered â and I use the term...
Letters from the Front Lines
Bob--
An encounter from this week:
I saw a 24 year-old theater actress who was started on Lexapro nine months ago for a one-time "panic attack"...
Personal Steps toward a Revolution in Mental Health Care
My friend David Oaks, director of MindFreedom , likes to say that what is currently needed is a non-violent revolution in mental health care. Mental...
Psychosis in the General Population
Schizophrenia Bulletin explores "the extended psychosis phenotype," finding that affective dysregulation, psychotic experiences, motivational impairments, and cognitive alterations are distributed throughout the population, and suggestive...
Psychosis Overlaps With Anxiety and Depression
In a representative community sample of 3021 adolescents and young adults, researchers in The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and the U.K. found that 27% of...
Schizophrenia Bulletin Questions the “Psychosis Phenotype”
In an editorial introducing its March issue, Schizophrenia Bulletin explores the categorical distinctions that have defined and directed research into psychotic disorders since the late 19th...
A Road Map to Hope
In my last blog, invited readers to consider sharing their familiesâ recovery stories and to open to the possibility of the healing that is available when we connect with each other through this sharing. I would like to share one of these stories with all of you.
