“When Will Mental Illness Finally Yield to Science?”
Newsweek writer Alexander Nazaryan overviews the recent "kick in the rear" provided to brain science by hundreds of millions of dollars in donations, and...
Trees and Your Mental Well-being
Trees reduce anxiety, stress and distress, and improve memory and concentration, says an op-ed published in Business Insider that includes links to many other...
Is Daydreaming as Vital to Mind-health as Focusing on Facts?
"If youâre feeling overwhelmed, thereâs a reason: The processing capacity of the conscious mind is limited. This is a result of how the brainâs...
APA Discusses Lack of Links Between Violence and Mental Illness
Blogging from the American Psychological Association annual convention, Lisa Bowen reports on a panel session entitled, "Mental Illness and Violence: Toward Research-Informed Policies and...
Sunday Oddity: Psychotropic Drug Ads from the Past
Misbehaving children, anxious housewives, and a man's happy Quaalude-created morning with his family highlight a random collection of psychotropic drug advertisements from the past...
Weaning the Elderly off Sleeping Pills
In a follow-up to an earlier commentary on the topic, Paula Span discusses the widespread use and negative effects of sleeping pills among the...
Council For Evidence-based Psychiatry Responds to Angry Lancet Commentary
In July, The Lancet Psychiatry published a commentary attacking Peter Gotzsche and the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, suggesting their criticism of the lack of...
Scientific Studies Biased by Reward Systems
The production of modern scientific studies is fundamentally biased and most often leads to unreliable results that no one will be funded to try...
Psychiatrist Shoots Patient
Anne Skomorkowsky of the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry writes in Truthout about a recent case of a psychiatrist who shot a patient. Skomorkowsky...
Therapeutic Video Games?
King5 News reports on video games that are being designed by psychologists to help players deal with emotional problems like anxiety and depression. Cheri...
Sunday Oddity: Stats on Psych Drugs in Hip Hop
Project Know, an addiction education website, has a graphical statistical analysis of mentions of different types of drugs in hip hop music from 1988...
How Do We Know What is Real?
MIT Press has released Hallucination: Philosophy and Psychology, a collection of both scientific and philosophical essays co-edited by University of Glasgow's Fiona Macpherson, co-director...
Are Psychology Tests Still Useful When We Mock Them?
Various psychologists weigh in on a debate in The Atlantic about a widely used and frequently cited psychology test to assess people's moral compass....
The Dangers of Screening Without a Diagnostic Method
A blog post from AbleChild raises questions about efforts in Connecticut to expand psychiatric screening and treatments for children and youth. "Since the...
Online Collective Art Gallery Created in Crisis
The New York Times Magazine reports on how a woman suffering in depression ended up founding an online art gallery for photographers struggling through...
Psychiatrist Says He was “Coached” in Drug Trial Manipulation
In a video interview with Psychetruth, psychiatrist Dr. Colin Ross provides a concise introduction to the challenges and problems of relying on information from...
Homeless People Recruited into Psychiatric Drug Trials
Matter magazine has published MIA Blogger Carl Elliott's investigation into the growing use of homeless people in the United States to test dangerous psychiatric...
Advocate for Outpatient Committal Recants
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Tom Burns recants. Burns is described as a psychiatrist who was long one of the strongest...
Upcoming Breath-Body-Mind Online Workshop
Psychiatrists Richard Brown and Patricia Gerbarg will be giving a Breath~Body~Mind workshop live online August 16 and August 17, 2014. According to a press...
Making Sense of Nonscience
Two opinion articles discuss the unscientific aspects of psychology and psychiatry, and posit ways for overcoming some of the conundrums... In Nature, a group...
How Do Comprehensive Lifestyle Changes Influence Dementia?
In his Scientific American blog, Gary Stix reviews the latest investigations into the impacts of comprehensive lifestyle change approaches to preventing dementia. "Results of...
“In the Gun Debate, Mental Illness Doesn’t Predict Dangerousness”
Massachusetts State Representative Paul Heroux' Huffington Post blog concludes that "We need to realize that high-profile events are high-profile because they are unlikely. And trying to...
When Hearing Voices is a Good Thing
The Atlantic reports on Tanya Luhrmann's recent research, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry "That suggests that the way people pay attention to...
Performance Artist Goes “Off Her Meds” For Art
The Daily Beast reports that Brooklyn artist Marni Kotak is weaning herself off a cocktail of antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs in a Brooklyn gallery...
Searching for Happiness Under the Fame & Fortune
A New York Times Sunday Review op-ed discusses the frustrations of the wealthy and powerful ruler Abd Al-Rahman III, an emir and caliph of...
