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...
Asylum Magazine Seeks Submissions on Comics & Mental Health
Asylum, the "international magazine for democratic psychiatry," is inviting 500-1000 word submissions for a special themed issue exploring "the intersections between mental health and...
Employment Lawyers Worried about DSM Diagnostic Expansions
An article in HRHero, a legal resource for human resource professionals, expresses concern about the expanding diagnostic categories in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual...
After the Xanax Wears Off…
Many personal stories of people struggling with an addiction that they were never told could happen punctuate an article about indiscriminate benzodiazepine prescribing in...
Sunday Humor: Comedian Maria Bamford
New York Times Magazine has published a portrait of Maria Bamford including a video interview and clips from her comedy shows and television appearances....
“If Trauma Victims Forget, What Is Lost to Society?”
The sub-heading "A pill to dampen memories stirs hope and worry" opens a reflective essay in Nautilus by Emily Anthes on the neuroscience and...
FDA Invites Comments on Guidelines for Informed Consent
The United States Food and Drug Administration is inviting comments on its new draft guidelines for informed consent. "This guidance is intended to provide...
What Do We Really Know about Neuroplasticity?
In a Scientific American blog post, Gary Stix reviews some of the latest research into brain "neuroplasticity," including an experiment where mice with induced...
Sunday Humor: “Choosing Wisely” Helps You Dance More With Fewer Meds
University of British Columbia pharmaceutical science professor James McCormack and his band's latest music video turns Pharrell's Williams' hit "Happy" into "Choosing Wisely," a...
Ireland’s Implementation of Rights Covenant Under Examination
Next week the United Nations Human Rights Committee is scheduled to begin evaluating Ireland's progress towards implementing the International Covenant on Civil and Political...
The Tobacco Industry’s Links to Studies on Stress
In NPR’s health news Shots, Alix Spiegel discusses the secret funding funnelled by the tobacco industry into the earliest studies of the impacts of...
A Call to Crack Down on Scientific Fraudsters
In the New York Times, two co-founders of Retraction Watch ponder examples of scientists caught committing research fraud to gain grants and further their...
“The Songs that Saved Your Life”
British psychologist Jay Watts explores the impacts of spontaneous recollections of songs and poems on people struggling with different types of mental distress in...
Am I a Safe Driver on Psychiatric Medications?
MIA Blogger Monica Cassani reviews the growing scientific evidence about the dangers of driving while under the influence of prescription psychiatric medications on her...
Sunday Humor: Arguments for “Chemical Imbalance Not Otherwise Specified”
Dr. Methodius Isaac Bonkers of the Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research puts forth a series of partially incomplete and generally imprecise arguments in...
What Distinguishes “Antipsychiatry”?
University of Toronto lecturer Bonnie Burstow discusses the key elements that distinguish the antipsychiatry perspective from mad, critical psychiatry, psych survivor and other perspectives...
Researchers Blog about Links Between ADHD Prescribing and Drug Costs
University of Toronto and Princeton University researchers take to Bloomberg View to discuss the findings from their large-scale, long-term study of ADHD and medicating...
On the Quest to Understand Computational Psychiatry
Boston WBUR public radio intern Suzanne Jacobs goes on a journey to find out what “computational psychiatry” is, and has some difficulty determining if...
What are Stimulants’ Effects on Anxiety?
Psychiatrist Richard Friedman argues in the New York Times that there are aspects of natural brain development that make teenagers more prone to both...
On Mentally Ill People Dealing with “Sane” People’s Violence
Jack Bragen writes in the Berkeley Daily Planet about the impacts on people's minds of the war and violence going on around them. "Someone...
It Feels Better to be Allowed to Feel Bad
Today discusses a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that found people with low self-esteem don’t like it when...
“Why Most Published Research Findings are False” Passes One Million Views
“The problem is when you come up with something really unusual, because there are hardly any standard venues for real innovation or out-of-the-box endeavors,”...
Unexplained Removal of Vermont Psychiatric Survivors Director
Nancy Remsen discusses in the Burlington Free Press the unexplained removal of executive director Linda Corey after 15 years representing Vermont Psychiatric Survivors. Corey...
