âFDA questions Pfizer Study of Chantix Psychiatric Effectsâ
Pfizer is petitioning the FDA to remove the black box warning for Chantix which focuses on neuropsychiatric side-effects like suicidality and depression. The regulators...
“Overprescribing of Drugs for Adult ADHD Causing ‘Trail of Misuse, Addiction and Death'”
An investigative report finds that the over-prescription of ADHD drugs is causing âa trail of misuse, addiction, and death.â âAt morgues in Florida, a...
âResearchers Confront an Epidemic of Lonelinessâ
Katie Hafner, writing in the âTimes, describes how loneliness has become a major public health issue. âThe profound effects of loneliness on health and...
âHow the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fatâ
The New York Timesâ Anahad OâConnor investigates how the sugar industry paid scientists as far back as the 1960s to downplay the link between...
âThin Slices of Anxiety: An Illustrated Meditation on What Itâs Like to Live Enslaved...
Brainpickingâs Maria Popova reviews âThin Slices of Anxietyâ by Catherine Lepage  â âan illustrated meditation on what itâs like to live enslaved by oneâs...
How We Can Inherit Trauma and Resilience
Philip Perry, writing for Big Think, covers studies in epigenetics revealing how trauma can be passed on through generations.
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âThe Disrespectable Pharmaceutical Industryâ
Psychologist Jeff Rubin summarizes some of the latest scandals out of the pharmaceutical industry and asks, âwhat can be done?â
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âThe Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Aloneâ
In her new book, âThe Lonely City,â Olivia Laing writes: âThere is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification...
âSingulair, Montelukast: Asthma Medication Linked to Serious Psychotic Episodes in Childrenâ
ABC News reports on almost 90 cases of children experiencing suicidal thoughts and other psychiatric side effects while taking the common asthma medication Singulair....
Petition Calls on Pharma Companies to Offer Tapering Kits for Depression and Anxiety Drugs
A change.org petition out of the United Kingdom is addressing the extreme difficulty faced by people who attempt to taper off of antidepressants and...
ECT Survivors Take On the FDA
In December, the FDA proposed down-classifying the device used in electroshock treatment (ECT), which would loosen regulations and potentially make ECT more widely available...
â11 Powerful Artifacts from the Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Torontoâ
The Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto âaims to collect and preserve the stories and histories of people with lived mental health experience, and to value and...
âThe DEA Is Placing Kratom and Mitragynine On Schedule Iâ
The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is moving to place Kratom, a southeast Asian plant often used in teas, on the schedule 1 banned...
âWhy You Shouldnât Want to Always Be Happyâ
For The Conversation, psychologist Frank McAndrew pushes back against the tide of think-pieces and self-help books aimed at improving individualsâ happiness. âRecognizing that happiness...
âCan Psychiatry Turn Itself Around?â
In a guest blog for the Scientific American, a psychiatrist in training, Nathaniel Morris, argues that the field needs a âwake-up call.â âWhen it...
The FDA’s Latest Black Box Warning: Don’t Mix Opioids, Benzos
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday mandated updated labels for nearly 400 opioids and benzodiazepines, following a review of scientific evidence and a citizen...
âAntidepressants Make it Harder to Empathize, Harder to Climax, and Harder to Cryâ
Psychiatrist Julie Holland explains how antidepressants can medicate away important feelings and experiences in a video for Big Think.
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âMany Clinical Trialsâ Findings Never Get Published. Hereâs Why Thatâs Badâ
STATâs watchdogs, Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, explain why unpublished studies for drug makers and researchers âput young patients at risk, particularly if those...
âMental Health Rules for European Pilots to Be ‘Strengthened’â
Medscape reports that the European Aviation Safety Agency (AESA) is set to announce strengthened mental health checks for pilots. The proposed changes come in...
Lancet Study on CBT and Behavioral Activation Challenged
In July, The Lancet published a study finding that cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) from trained psychotherapists was not superior to short-term behavior activation (BA) intervention...
âGoogle Spinout Verily Recruits Another Top Psychologistâ
Alphabet's Verily has made its latest mental health hire: UC San Francisco's Danielle Schlosser, according to an internal memo obtained by Fast Company. Schlosser will...
âAntipsychotics During Pregnancy Not Tied to Birth Defectsâ
The New York Times Well blog reports on a new study, in JAMA Psychiatry, which found that antipsychotic medicines during pregnancy do not increase the...
âNo More Memoriesâ
The Economist reviews a new book which examines the grim history of neuroscience and psychosurgery through the story of âPatient H.M.â In the âStory...
âOne-Year-Old Prescribed Antidepressants by NHS in Scotlandâ
The Independent reports that the National Health Service (NHS) in Dundee prescribed antidepressants to 450 children, some as young as seven years old, in...
âDistrustful of Authority, a Holocaust Survivor Became a Fierce Critic of Medical Establishmentâ
STATâs Rob Waters profiles Vera Sharav, a holocaust survivor whose son was diagnosed with schizophrenia and died from a side effect of his antipsychotic...
