“Invisibilia: For An Artist, A Room Of His Own Is A Lifesaver”
In this Invisibilia bonus, Angus Chen tells the story of William Kitt, who spent 34 years homeless and maddened by drug-induced hallucinations before getting...
“Evolutionary Forces Are Causing a Boom in Bad Science”
From the New Scientist: “Paul Smaldino and Richard McElreath at the University of California Davis used an evolutionary theory-based computational model to analyse the problem of bad...
“Childhood Adversity Hurts Our Mental and Physical Health”
Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, a recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Foundation genius award, wrote: “ ACE Scores should become a vital sign, as important as height, weight,...
“Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? By Hilary Rose and Steven Rose”
"It’s an appealing idea: the notion that understanding the learning brain will tell us how to maximise children’s potential, bypassing the knotty complexities of...
Placebo: A Groundbreaking, Clinically Proven Treatment
In this Shouts & Murmurs video from the New Yorker placebo pills get the full drug advertisement treatment.
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“When the Body Attacks the Mind”
“A physiological theory of ‘mental illness.’” The Atlantic tells the story of 13-year-old Sasha Egger who was given antipsychotics immediately after he started to...
“Antidepressants Cost NHS £5.5m A Week”
The Times Katie Gibbons reports that the UK “NHS is spending a record £780,000 a day on antidepressants as failing mental health services struggle...
“Antidepressants Are A Quick Fix In A Broken System”
For The Times, Labour MP Luciana Berger writes about her concerns with the increased use of antidepressants. “Antidepressants should never be prescribed as a...
Latest World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day (W-BAD) Video
“We asked people from all over the world to share about the iatrogenic injury they sustained from taking benzodiazepines as prescribed and why they...
“Depression Pills Made Me Unfit To Be A Mother”
Award-winning documentarian Katinka Blackford Newman talks to the Daily Mail about her new book on the dangers of antidepressants.
Was the FDA Commissioner Paid By Drug Makers Last Year?
Pharmalot, Pharmalittle: “US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf appeared in a federal database of payments made last year by drug makers...
“In Clinical trials, For-Profit Review Boards Are Taking Over for Hospitals. Should They?”
Sheila Kaplan for STAT News: “The modern history of science is littered with studies in which participants were harmed because researchers failed to take...
“An Instant Cure”
In a tongue-in-cheek essay, a psychology professor laments that his diagnosis of histrionic personality disorder has now been removed from the DSM-V, the official...
“Some Hospitals Still Refuse to Let Mental Health Patients Go Outside, Despite Laws to...
Sarah Beller from The Influence: “On Friday, the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health issued new ‘Fresh Air’ rules for psychiatric patients in the state. The rules require...
“Jury Smacks J&J with $70M in Damages in Latest Risperdal Breast Case”
Fierce Pharma reports: "Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ) is fighting more than 1,500 legal claims that its antipsychotic Risperdal triggered breast development in boys, and...
“The One Question Therapists Don’t Often Ask–but Should”
In the Washington Post psychiatrist, Samantha Boardman argues that counselors should focus on a patient’s strengths instead of what they perceive as being wrong....
“Six Former Commissioners Say FDA Should Be Independent Agency”
Helen Branswell at STAT: “Give the FDA independence and elevate its status. That’s the message from six former commissioners who led the FDA for...
“Doctors Have Become Less Empathetic, But Is It Their Fault?”
Physician and medical sociologist David Scales explores why there seems to be less empathy from doctors in clinics and hospitals and why student’s empathy...
Invisibilia: “The Problem with the Problem”
NPR's Invisibilia podcast learns that approaching something as a problem can itself be the problem, and that a community-based approach to what we now...
“How Therapy Became A Hobby Of The Wealthy, Out Of Reach For Those In...
NPR covers research that shows that a large percentage of therapy resources go to the “worried well,” who can afford to pay out of...
“War, on Drugs”
Historian Peter Frankopan delves into the use of drugs to fuel combat “from berserkers to jihadis.” “Of the US pilots who took part in...
“Drug and Device Makers Paid $6.5 Billion to Docs and Teaching Hospitals Last Year”
From Ed Silverman with Pharmalot: “Drug and device makers paid nearly $6.5 billion in payments to doctors and teaching hospitals last year, according to...
Psychiatry Must Admit Failure of Current System and Take New Approach, Claims Stanford Neuroscientist
In an interview with the Scientific American, Stanford psychiatrist and neuroscientist, Amit Etkin, comments on the “wrong path” that psychiatry has taken as a...
“FDA Issues New Draft Guidelines For ‘Appearance’ of Conflicts of Interest”
For STAT news, Pharmalot correspondent Ed Silverman reports on a new guideline being drafted by the FDA that adds new rules that could restrict...
“Are Anxiety Drugs Making Us Less Eager To Lend A Helping Hand?”
For the Huffington Post, David Freeman asks “By tamping down anxious feelings, could it be that these so-called “anxiolytic” drugs are blunting our empathy and...
