A Lifetime of Personal Lessons from Raising an Autistic Child
The Lancet Psychiatry has a book review of Ron Suskind's memoir of raising his autistic son, Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and...
“Auditory Hallucinations: Debunking the Myth of Language Supremacy”
In Schizophrenia Bulletin, an Australian and a French researcher argue that the Hearing Voices Movement and similar groups are often misleading the public and...
Interview with Gary Greenberg: The DSM is the Key to the Health Care Treasury
BrainBlogger has an interview with Gary Greenberg, psychotherapist and author of The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry. "The (Diagnostic...
It Remains Unclear How Head Blows Affect Behavior Over the Long Term
It's not clear how repeated injuries to the head that lead to neurodegeneration actually affect people's behaviors, argue University of Buffalo researchers in The...
“Animals that Self-Medicate”
Humans aren't the only species to seek out and consume substances that they normally wouldn't eat, just to make themselves feel better, according to...
81% Recovery from Psychotic Breaks? Psychiatrist Reflects on Open Dialogue Method
Psychiatrist Tom Stockman has been posting a series of articles on his blog Mandala, reflecting on the Open Dialogue method for intervening in psychiatric...
Can Psychiatrist and Psychologist Court Experts Be Trusted on Memory Science, Round Two
The British Psychological Society Research Digest weighs in on a study previously reported in Mad in America, showing that psychologist and psychiatrist expert court...
Prominent Patient Safety Advocate Was Taking Kickbacks from Pharma
ProPublica revisits the story of Dr. Chuck Denham, the previous editor of the Journal of Patient Safety and former "co-chairman of a committee that...
“Choosing Wisely: Changing Clinicians, Patients, or Policies?”
In the JAMA Forum, Diana Mason, President of the American Academy of Nursing, discusses the "Choosing Wisely" campaign and its efforts to get physicians...
“My Drugged Life: Who’s Really at Home?”
Writing under the pseudonym Will Barrett, a person who has been continually on various psychiatric drugs since age 10 philosophically reflects in Salon. "But...
Sunday Flipside: The Most Counter-Intuitive Psychology Findings Ever Published
The British Psychological Society's Research Digest reviews "10 of The Most Counter-Intuitive Psychology Findings Ever Published." These include classics such as Self-help Mantras Can...
Still Doing Better Without Antipsychotics?
The Chicago Tribune revisits the issues raised in the 2007 study led by Martin Harrow which found that many people diagnosed with schizophrenia fare...
Sunday Humor: British Medical Journal’s Annual Christmas Issue
The British Medical Journal's annual Christmas issue includes a paper examining the relative idiocy of the genders based on twenty years of the Darwin...
Health Professionals Question Using Animals for Studies
National Institute of Mental Health Director Thomas Insel explains why using mice to try to help solve human psychological problems doesn't work very well....
Interview with Peter Gøtzsche: How Psychiatry Has Gone Astray
Dr. McDougall's Health and Medical Center has posted a three-part interview with MIA Foreign Correspondent Peter Gøtzsche, author of the book Deadly Medicines and...
The Lancet Psychiatry “Diagnosis Debate” Continues
The Lancet Psychiatry's December issue includes two letters commenting on Mary Boyle and Lucy Johnstone's article, "Alternatives to psychiatric diagnosis," along with a new...
Call for (Pithy) Submissions: “Is Psychiatry a Real Science?”
In a call for submissions posted on the History of Madness in Canada website, the long-running OUR VOICE / NOTRE VOIX magazine, publisher of...
“Pay $1000 to criticize a bad ‘blood test for depression’ article?”
In the PLOS Blog Mind the Brain, James Coyne recounts how he wanted to participate in post-publication peer review surrounding the "bad science" in...
“Vermonters Using Social Media as Peer Support”
The Rutland Herald uses a recent study about online "mental illness peer support" as an opening to interview people in Vermont concerning what they...
End of the Road for Genetics/Behavior Claims?
In Discover, Neuroskeptic discusses a new study that "could undermine the concept of ‘endophenotypes’ – and thus derail one of the most promising lines...
“Why Do More Men than Women Kill Themselves?”
In Scientific American Blogs, Jesse Bering argues that there's at least one simple explanation for why more men than women kill themselves: Their respective...
Psychiatrist Discovers Who Was Secretly Paying the Psychiatrists Who Mocked Her
Young psychiatrist Jean Kim argues that psychiatrists need to reflect more on the morality of their work, then gets "laughed out of the room"...
Sunshine Act Could Make Pharma Target Other Groups Over Doctors
More action will be required if the public hopes to benefit from the new legislation requiring doctors to disclose the money and gifts they've...
Depression Caused by an Infection?
In the New York Times, Anna North discusses research looking into infectious causes of depression, and theories that depression may be an important evolutionary...
Lax Online Security Makes Hacking Your Way to Scientific Prominence Easy
How easy is it to gain access to some of the biggest online hosts of academic research journals in the world, and then start...
