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Neuroskeptic weighs in on the controversy over the lack of antipsychotic dose data in the RAISE study and the misleading media coverage. He points out that one of the treatment interventions was a computerized medication management system called COMPASS, which recommends doctors use lower doses than they otherwise might.

In The Atlantic, Julie Beck interviews emotional intelligence expert David Caruso about the importance of accurately recognizing and communicating your emotions. “American culture demands that the answer to the question ‘How are you?’ is not just ‘Good,’ but sometimes ‘Great.’ Or—this drives folks around the world crazy, who might be based in another country but they work for an American company—we need to be ‘Awesome.’ There's this relentless drive to mask the expression of our true underlying feelings. It's almost inappropriate.”

-Interviews with people who murdered their own loved ones while taking SSRI antidepressants are included in the documentary, "Dark Side of a Pill."

-A new regular radio program from NPR "explores the intangible forces that shape human behavior."

From The Guardian: According to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the number of children and young people seeking mental health support has spiked since recent...

Beyond Meds reflects on the implications of "Autoimmune Attack Behind Some Cases of Schizophrenia," an article in NewScientist. Article →

Writing on his 1 Boring Old Man blog, Dr. Mickey Nardo reflects on the media frenzy around the RAISE study and asks why the prescription data has not been released. He adds skepticism about the political motives of the potentially overblown results, which he sees as a clear push for increased mental health funding.

The U.K.'s Guardian newspaper concludes that "The government is right: children need love as much as they do vitamins – and a lack of...

From Marketplace Tech: "One of the drawbacks to a telehealth platform is there isn’t the ability for human interaction in the way that you...

The New York Times reviews E. Fuller Torrey's book, American Psychosis, concluding "Few will disagree with his advice that we should focus our resources...

MIA Reports correspondent Rob Wipond discusses the community of Madinamerica.com, and the story of Cindi Fisher's efforts to free her son from forced drugging...

“The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of pharmaceutical treatment for low sexual desire in women has launched a heated debate over the dangers and benefits of medicalizing sex,” Maya Dusenbery writes in the Pacific Standard. Is “female Viagra” a feminist victory or a product of clever faux-feminist marketing by Big Pharma?

From U.S. News: The Trump administration is not taking any actions to address the epidemic of waste, i.e. unnecessary tests and treatments, in the medical...

Division 18 of the American Psychological Association (APA), Public Service Psychology, has put out an open call for articles for a special issue of...

“Children from poorer families are more likely to experience changes in brain connectivity that put them at higher risk of depression, compared with children from more affluent families,” according to new research covered by Medical News Today. "Poverty doesn't put a child on a predetermined trajectory, but it behooves us to remember that adverse experiences early in life are influencing the development and function of the brain. And if we hope to intervene, we need to do it early so that we can help shift children onto the best possible developmental trajectories."

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...

The Intercept illustrates the growing insecurity of our medical and mental health data in an age of privacy breaches. Individual stories detail instances of electronic therapy notes being shared between all doctors in a practice, employees being fired after mental health information is disclosed through workplace wellness programs, and police data on past suicide attempts being used to prevent Canadian citizens from crossing the US border.

The New York Times reports that patients in South Dakota seeking treatment for symptoms associated with ‘mental disorders,’ or disabilities such as severe diabetes...

-The New England Journal of Medicine generated controversy by suggesting that concerns about conflict of interest in medicine and psychiatry are overblown.

For Vox, Brian Resnik explains how our academic and research institutions are structured to make it more likely that false positives will be published....

From Dr. David Healy's blog: "Samizdat has just been graced with Gene Larkin’s Seeking Soteria accompanied by Bill James fabulous artwork (graced is the...

A soldier's story, in the New York Times, speaks for more than people in the military: "I feel an obligation to tell my story,...

“The paper, The  psychopathology of James Bond, and its implications for the revision of the DSM-007, has just won first prize in the Australian Medical Journal's...

-A recent report from the Union of Concerned Scientists graded the level of employee freedom of speech at 17 US federal agencies.

-Two stories explore devastation and hope in response to brain injuries.