Yearly Archives: 2012
Stress Associated With Brain Shrinkage in Healthy People
In studies of healthy people experiencing stress, Yale researchers found tissue loss in brain areas regulating emotion, self-control and other behaviors.Ā
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Early Trauma, Social Stress Accompany Psychosis
Researchers at Emory University find that childhood trauma, sensitivity to psychosocial stress and a heightened biological response to stress are associated with the onset...
Discontinuing Psychotropics Reduces Falls in Elderly
Australian researchers look at the literature on the effect of psychotropics on falls in the elderly; largest effect of any randomized trial was achieved...
Is It All in Your Head?
In a recent NPR story, there was a discussion of the serotonin theory of depression. It was acknowledged by the scientists who were interviewed that there is no evidence of a serotonin deficiency in the brains of people who are depressed.
The Taint of Eugenics In NIMH-Funded Research Today
Recently, Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, identified the āNIMHās Top 10 Research Advances of 2011.ā He wrote: āThis has been a year of exciting discoveries and scientific progress . . . Here are 10 breakthroughs and events of 2011 that are changing the landscape of mental health research.ā
Evidence That Sadness When Bereaved is Not Illness
While the DSM-IV recognizes that depressive symptoms are sometimes normal in bereaved individuals, this "Bereavement Exclusion" is targeted for elimination from the DSM-V. However...
Antipsychotics Increase Retrovirus Activity in Humans
Endogenous retroviruses, remnants of ancient infections that have become part of the human genome, have been associated with the development of schizophrenia. But researchers...
Pfizer Files to Consolidate Birth Defect Lawsuitsd
With at least 59 lawsuits pending over birth defects allegedly caused by Zoloft, Pfizer moves to consolidate litigation near its headquarters in New York.
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J&J Earnings Down 89%
The Wall Street Journal reports that Johnson & Johnson's fourth-quarter earnings fell 89% following settlements for misrepresenting the risks and benefits of Risperdal, its...
Tsunami of Frozen Grief Found in the Clinical Work
One of the primary clinical teachings found in the pursuit of prescription drug withdrawal: we need stepping stones and a great many of them to navigate the perilous terrain.
Excellent Article on Antipsychotic Drug Harm Reduction in Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health...
Matthew Aldridge, a psychiatric nurse at London's Lambeth Hospital, just published a new article in the 2011 Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, "Addressing Non-Adherence to Antipsychotic Medication: A Harm-Reduction Approach." This is an extraordinarily well researched clinical discussion of professional medication practice.
Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care Projects
One of the incredible things I get to do is talk to researchers, people with lived experience, family members, psychiatrists, psychologists, pediatricians, therapists, social...
Alarm About Antipsychotics as Sleep Aids
Canadian sleep researchers, writing in The Lancet, warn that weight gain, lipid and glucose dysregulation, restless leg syndrome, sleep-walking and eating while asleep, and...
Psychiatry’s Grand Confession
The psychiatric profession has finally come clean and confessed on a national media outlet that there is no evidence to support the Serotonin Theory...
A Psychiatrist Remembers His Recovery from Schizophrenia
A psychiatrist since 1949, I was psychiatrically hospitalized on December 21, 1963 at New York City's Mt. Sinai Hospital. Ā Ā I stayed for three months,...
Elevated Diabetes in Children Treated With Antipsychotics, Antidepressants
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts found that children are more than twice as likely to develop diabetes when treated with antidepressants, and more...
J&J Takes Hit on Wall Street for Its Corrupt Practices
In the wake of the Johnson & Johnson's settlements over its improper marketing of Risperdal, Forbes magazine comments on the company's "vulnerable and now...
The Cure for Mood Disorders Is Dementia?
Perhaps the most alarming current trend in psychiatry, documented by Domino and Schwartz (2008), is the rise in prescriptions for the class of drug...
Introducing Myself
Iām an Associate Professor at the Georgia State University in the School of Social Work. Early in my career in the late 1960s and...
Jill Littrell – Short Bio
Life Style Can Change the Brain: A clinical psychologist, Jill Littrell writes about research studies of psychiatric medications, and interventions to bolster naturalĀ resilience through...
Jill Littrell, PhD – Long Bio
LIFE STYLE CAN CHANGE THE BRAIN
Jill Littrell, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Georgia State University in the School of Social Work.Ā Her PhD...
Get Off Prescription Drugs: Arriving at the Work
I sat inĀ my office in the middle of Provo, Utah (home of BYU) on a scorching hot Wasatch mountain day. IĀ was takingĀ a briefĀ professional hiatus...
The Importance of Being Useful
All people need to feel useful in this life.Ā The sense of belonging with others and being important to them is the primary need...
Short Bio – Short Bio
Get Off Prescription Drugs: Psychotherapist Elliot Goldberg writes about his experiences running an outpatient rehab program that helps people get off prescription drugs, and...
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW – Long Bio
GET OFF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
A psychotherapist for over 30 years in the Pacific Northwest, Elliot Goldberg stumbled into the professional rehab world in 2009. He...
