âHow Journalists Can Help Hold Scientists Accountableâ
Today, science journalistsâ motivations "align very nicely with what the scientists themselves want, which is publicity for their work," says Charles Seife, a veteran...
âAntipsychotic Drugs May not be Effective Against Deliriumâ
According to a recent meta-analysis, antipsychotic medications are not useful for preventing or treating delirium in hospitalized patients, despite their regular use for these...
âWhat the Quest to Map the Brain Tells Us About Government-Funded Science Revolutionsâ
In the Pacific Standard, Elena Goory asks: âWhat does it look like, right now, when the government tries to revolutionize an entire field of...
âGroup Drumming Bangs Away at Anxiety and Depressionâ
âProzac? Actually, percussion.â Researchers in the UK found that a ten-week drumming intervention significantly improved anxiety and depression for people seeking mental health treatment....
âHow Unconscious Fear Of Death May Skew Your Judgment â In Life And 2016...
WBUR covers a recent talk at the Boston Museum of Science by Sheldon Solomon, Â co-author the new book, âThe Worm At The Core: On...
âFDA to Require Much Stronger Warnings on Opioid Painkillersâ
NBC News reports that the FDA is taking action in an attempt to make opioid drugs, cousins to opium and heroin, a last-ditch option...
âNot Yet Kicked: The Consequences of Big Tobacco’s Targeting of Mentally Ill Peopleâ
âTwo big liesâthat smoking relieves the symptoms of psychosis, depression and anxiety and that mentally ill people have a special immunity to tobacco-related diseasesâwere...
âDrugs in the Drinking Water? Don’t Ask and Officials Won’t Tellâ
"There's no doubt about it, pharmaceuticals are being detected in the environment and there is genuine concern that these compounds, in the small concentrations...
“Cashing in on Addiction to Alcohol and Illicit Drugsâ
For AlterNet, Evelyn Pringle and Martha Rosenberg reveal how addiction psychiatry is becoming big business. Â Addiction is thought of âlike often-cited diabetes and hypertensive...
âNow Thereâs Proof: Docs Who Get Company Cash Tend to Prescribe More Brand-Name Medsâ
A new analysis by ProPublica finds that the more money doctors receive from drug manufacturers, the more brand name drugs they prescribe. âIndeed, doctors...
âDanger in the Psych Wardâ
The Dallas Morning News features an investigation into the safety issues that are plaguing mental-health hospitals in Texas and across the US -- all...
âPsychologists Throw Open The âFile Drawerââ
âThe âfile drawer problemâ refers to the fact that in science, many results remain unpublished â especially negative ones,â Neuroskeptic reports. A new paper...
âIs Philosophy Therapy, or Simply a Search for Truth?â
For Aeon, Jules Evans and Nigel Warburton discuss the therapeutic aspects of philosophy. Evans argues that âit wouldnât be appropriate for a therapist to...
“Young People are Growing ever more Depressed. Is Modern Life to Blame?”
The Guardian reports "If modern life is unkind to our mental health, itâs no doubt in part because so many young people fear that...
“âTheyâre Waking Upâ: Reducing Drugs for Dementia Patients Yields Dramatic Results”
Canada's Global News reports that "A couple of years after a national initiative began to reduce the use of anti-psychotic medication, some people are...
âSuppressing Traumatic Memories Can Cause Amnesia, Research Suggestsâ
Research on how the suppression of traumatic memories can reduce our ability to form new memories has implications for such controversial trauma-related phenomena as...
âMeditation Plus Running as a Treatment for Depressionâ
âMeditating before running could change the brain in ways that are more beneficial for mental health than practicing either of those activities alone,â Gretchen...
â’Yalom’s Cure’ is a Meditative Immersion into Leading a Psychologist’s Lifeâ
The LA Times reviews a new film about Irvin David Yalom, existential psychologist, emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford Unversity. "âYalom's Cureâ dispenses an...
âThe Report Big Pharma Doesn’t Like at Allâ
This week, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a report revealing that prescription drug spending in the U.S. is rising and is projected to continue rising...
âWhat Psychologyâs Crisis Means for the Future of Scienceâ
For Vox, Brian Resnik explains how our academic and research institutions are structured to make it more likely that false positives will be published....
âStudy Finds âSeasonal Affective Disorderâ Doesn’t Existâ
A recent study questions the existence of seasonal depression after a CDC survey found no evidence that seasons or sunlight exposure increased depression measures. âTo be...
âYoung Americans Have Been Getting More Anxious and Depressed, Why?â
According to Jesse Singal, âever since the 1930s, young people in America have reported feeling increasingly anxious and depressed. And no one knows exactly...
“Mental Illness and Familial Influences”
"Let us be clear that claims about established genetic or biochemical causation for mental distress are, as things stand, entirely fictional," writes Dr Lucy...
âPsychiatrist Gets 9 Months for Accepting Kickbacks from Drug Firmâ
Chicago Psychiatrist Michael Reinstein received a sentence of nine months in prison for taking an estimated $600,000 in kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies in exchange...
âSimplifying Childhood May Protect Against Mental Health Issuesâ
On the Huffington Post, Tracy Gillett discusses Kim John Payne's book, Simplicity Parenting, and wonders if we are overwhelming children with âthe burden of too much.â...
