Investigative Reporting on Floridaâs Mental Hospitals Wins Pulitzer Prize
A team of reporters and data specialists from the Tampa Bay Times and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune spent more than a year investigating Floridaâs largest...
âIs Teaching Kids Empathy Just as Important as Teaching Them Math?â
The Pacific Standard spoke with Joan Cole Duffell, executive director of Committee for Children, about the importance of social-emotional development on children, both as...
âDeep Brain Stimulation: Unproven Treatment Promoted with a Conflict of Interest in JAMA Psychiatryâ
In the PLOS Mind the Brain Blog, James Coyne reacts to an article and editorial in JAMA Psychiatry reporting effects of brain stimulation therapy...
âThe Mental Disease of Late-Stage Capitalismâ
For Medium, Joe Brewer claims that the ââmental diseaseâ of late-stage capitalism is shame, the devastating feeling that we failed ourselves in the Land...
âThe Long, Sad Story of Antidepressants and Suicideâ
The Roanoke Times medical column takes on the question, âCan antidepressants lead to suicidal thoughts and actions?â concluding that âit is crucial for patients...
âWhy Our Peer Review System is a Toothless Watchdogâ
From STAT: âImagine that someone offers to give you a guard dog. When the wretched creature arrives, you find out that she is calf-high,...
âAddressing Trauma as a Health Riskâ
Edward Machtinger, MD, director of UCSF's Women's HIV Program, nearly 84 percent of patients with HIV/AIDS died from trauma, such as physical abuse, neglect, substance...
What Are the Mental Health Effects of Climate Change?
This MedScape Psychiatry Minute video reviews new research concluding that climate change increases the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders....
“Fifty Psychological and Psychiatric terms to Avoid: a List of Inaccurate, Misleading, Misused, Ambiguous,...
An article in Frontiers in Psychology tackles the problem of unclear and imprecise language in psychology and psychiatry, exhorting that "Clarity is especially critical in...
“Positive Thinking and the Name Game”
The Institute for Art and Ideas hosts a debate between psychiatrist David Healy, psychiatrist Dinesh Bhugra, and philosopher Havi Carel on the proposition that "When...
“Film Showing at Yale Aims to Break Stereotypes Around Mental Illness”
The New Haven Register registers one of the 125 showing of âHealing Voices,â written and directed by PJ Moynihan of Digital Eyes Film, which "follows...
âHarvard Affiliates Protest at Tufts for âPharma Fools Dayââ
Students from Harvard Medical School joined students from Tufts University to protest Joseph DiMasi, who recently published a study that the students claim is...
âCan Trauma Help You Grow?â
For The New Yorker, David Kushner writes about post-traumatic growth, the sense of deepened meaning that many trauma survivors experience. âThe existence of post-traumatic...
âThe Drugs That Built a Super Soldierâ
"During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military plied its servicemen with speed, steroids, and painkillers to help them handle extended combat,â Lukasz Kamienski writes...
âThe Sexist Ads Big Pharma Has Used to Hawk Drugsâ
Martha Rosenberg analyzes the âslick, Mad Men-style adsâ that ran in medical journals from the 1950s-70s âin which women clearly âknew their placeâ and...
âB.C. Care Homes Provide Antidepressants Without Diagnosesâ
New data reveals that the majority of care homes in British Columbia, Canada are giving out prescriptions for antidepressants and antipsychotics without a diagnosis....
âWhy You Should Stop Taking Your Antidepressantsâ
The New York Post reprints an excerpt on antidepressants from the latest book by MIA contributor, Kelly Brogan, MD, âA Mind of Your Own:...
âThe Pharmaceutical Industryâs Role in U.S. Medical Educationâ
âPharmaceutical industry influence can harm the social and moral character of medical students. In medicine, the traditional virtues of benevolence, compassion, integrity, respectfulness, honesty...
âCapitalism and Mental Health: How the Market Makes Us Sickâ
In this viral video from âLibertarian Socialist Rants,â the idea is put forward that the financial stress and social isolation inherent to life in...
âWisdom Influenced by Heart Rate Variabilityâ
"Our research shows that wise reasoning is not exclusively a function of the mind and cognitive ability. We found that people who have greater...
“There are no âSchizophrenia Genesâ: Hereâs Why”
Richard Bentall and David Pilgrim offer their critique of genetic theories of schizophrenia for the Conversation. "The high heritability estimates reported in earlier quantitative...
âStudy Finds Risks for Teens of Mothers Who Took Certain Antidepressantsâ
âAdolescents whose mothers took certain antidepressants while pregnant with them are more than four times as likely to become depressed by age 15, compared with...
âAmid Public Feuds, A Venerated Medical Journal Finds Itself Under Attackâ
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has come under intense scrutiny for delayed corrections and controversial editorials and articles. âThe Journal and its...
âPfizer Abandons $160bn Allergan Dealâ
After the US announced plans to crack down on âinversion deals,â where a US company merges with a foreign company to escape taxes, Pfizer...
“Is it all in the Brain? An Inclusive Approach to Mental Health.”
Michelle Maiese of the Oxford University Press' International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry  series writes on the OUP blog: "For many years, the prevailing view...
