When Evidence Says no, but Doctors say yes
From ProPublica: Many physicians continue to administer treatments that have long been proven ineffective and even harmful to patients.
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Big Pharma Enlists Leading Professors to Justify Drug Prices
From ProPublica: The pharmaceutical company has deployed a potent new ally to justify skyrocketing drug prices. Precision Health Economics, a firm comprised of leading economists and...
How the Positive Only Movement has a Negative Impact
From Rooted in Rights: The Positive Only movement has a negative impact on the disability community by ignoring the realities of many disabled people, including...
Debunking Myths About Creativity and the Brain
From Pacific Standard: Recent studies have debunked two common myths about creativity and the brain: that the right hemisphere is solely responsible for creative thought,...
Smartphones are Really Stressing out Americans
From TIME: A recent report by the American Psychological Association found that people who constantly check their smartphones experience higher levels of stress compared to people...
The Desire to Fit In is the Root of Almost All Wrongdoing
From Aeon: Contrary to the beliefs of many great philosophers, wrongdoing is not primarily motivated by self-interest and greed, but by the desire to fit...
How Blackbirds Help us Beat the Blues
From Daily Mail: Researchers have found that living close to bird life can improve mental health. People who live in neighborhoods with more bird life have...
An American Public Health Crisis – the ‘Pair of ACEs’
From The Huffington Post: Adverse Childhood Experiences such as physical and emotional abuse, domestic violence, and homelessness often occur in the context of Adverse Community...
Why Loneliness Affects so Many Young People
From Vice: The importance placed on self-sufficiency, extreme individualism, and competitive self-interest in our society has contributed to widespread loneliness among millennials.
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Mental Health Digest February 2017
A new issue of the Mental Health Digest newsletter is now available. This issue includes an overview of art therapy as well as information about the impact...
B Vitamins Reduce Schizophrenia Symptoms
From Hindustan Times: Treatments using high-dose B-vitamins, including B6, B8, and B12, can considerably reduce symptoms of schizophrenia.
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High University Debts Cause Students Mental Health Problems
From The Independent: Debts accumulated during university years are so high that students are suffering from mental health problems. A recent survey found that three-quarters...
Do Some Trauma Survivors Cope by Overworking?
From The Atlantic: Like other addictions, workaholism may be a response to trauma. Overworking is the way that some trauma survivors cope with hypervigilance, grief, and...
Same-sex Marriage Laws Linked to Drop in Teen Suicide Attempts
From MinnPost: Laws legalizing same-sex marriage are associated with a significant drop in teen suicide attempts. In states that legalized same-sex marriage before June 2015, when...
College Course Offered on Calling out Scientific Crap
From STAT: Two professors at the University of Washington will be offering a new course, "Calling Bullshit In the Age of Big Data." The class...
Intelligence: a History
From Aeon: The idea of intelligence - specifically, the primacy of reason and rationality - has been used to justify privilege and domination throughout more than...
CEP Members Publish New Book: ‘The Sedated Society’
The Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry announces the release of a new book called 'The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Prescribing Epidemic.'...
Abilify Drives Users to Binge on Risky Behaviors
From Daily Mail: The anti-psychotic drug Abilify is at the center of hundreds of lawsuits accusing the drug of dangerous side effects including compulsive gambling,...
Renowned Harvard Psychologist Says ADHD is Largely a Fraud
From Curious Mind Magazine: Jerome Kagan, one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, believes that the diagnosis of ADHD is a mere...
Choosing a Specialty: A Letter to a Medical Student
In this letter to a medical student considering pursuing psychiatry as a specialty, psychiatrist Nassir Ghaemi cautions that unlike other medical specialties, psychiatry can...
Personalized Medicine may Treat Rather Than Prevent Diseases
From The Conversation US: Although personalized medicine, which involves tailoring health care to each person's individual genetic makeup, has helped make progress in the treatment...
Women on the Pill More Likely to be Treated for Depression
From Daily Mail: A recent study shows that women taking hormonal contraceptive pills are more likely to be treated for depression.
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Revealed: Britain’s Mental Health Crisis
In this episode of BBC's Panorama, reporter Sophie Hutchison investigates the troubled state of mental health services in Britain. (Available for UK residents only)
Viewing Addiction as a Brain Disease Promotes Social Injustice
From Nature: There is virtually no scientific evidence indicating that addiction is a disease of the brain. Yet, the disease model of addiction is used...
Your Psychiatrist Might be Wrong
From Pakistan Today: Psychiatry may lack scientific objectivity in comparison with other fields of medicine.
"The mind sciences â psychology or psychiatry â have always been...
