“Income Inequality Is a Health Hazard – Even for the Rich”
“Wealth in the United States can buy many things: education, homes, vacations. It can even buy the best doctors and diet, but it can't buy health.” Why not? Asks Yessenia Funes. Researchers find that inequality in society leads to shorter lives for everyone.
“Mental Illness Still Hurts, no Matter What you Call it”
"(Director of the NIMH Thomas Insel's) announcement is nothing short of a cataclysm in mental health. Imagine that you have a child who's been...
“When Philosophy Meets Psychiatry”
The New York Times highlights the Maudsley Philosophy Group, a London seminar that includes psychiatrists, psychologists, philosophers and others interested in "looking at various...
Health Privacy at Serious Risk on Web
-Nine out of ten health-related web visits result in personal health information being leaked to third parties.
“How the Science of Human Behavior is Beginning to Reshape the US Government”
President Obama has made it a point of his administration to attempt to integrate the science of human behavior into smarter government policies. For example, understanding how we might act irrationally can inform policies about decisions made on the free market.
“NYS Moves to Parity in Mental Health Treatment”
New York State has investigated five large insurance companies for violating state and federal mental health parity laws by illegally denying to cover claims for behavioral health conditions and drug abuse treatment, according to a report by North County Public Radio (ncpr).
“More Patients in Scotland Given Antidepressants”
The BBC reports that the number of people in Scotland taking antidepressants has increased by 5% in the past year with most of the patients being women and those in the poorest parts of the country. “We are now looking at the flabbergasting statistic of more than one in seven people in Scotland being prescribed antidepressants this year,” Conservative health spokesman Jackson Carlaw said. “We urgently have to look at better alternatives than simply parking people on medication in the hope things don't get any worse, with no aspiration for complete recovery."
How Much Do Average People Know About the Risks of Screening?
-Despite an "epidemic" of "expanding disease definitions that medicalize more people," most Australians have no idea that overdiagnosis is a problem.
“500 Drugs Updated With Directions for Child Use Since 2002”
From Salon magazine: "Despite the 500 changes made in pediatric drug-labeling updates since 2002, doctors still must rely only on clinical experience and existing scientific literature...
“Does Sexual Aggression Alter the Female Brain?”
In a recent rodent study out of Rutgers University, researchers found elevated stress hormones and reduced learning and maternal behaviors in female rodents who...
How Many Times Must a Frightened, Troubled Person Be Shot?
-Law student Renwei Chung discusses the current Supreme Court case looking at police shootings of people with disabilities.
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...
Empathic Therapy Conference 2015
-The Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education and Living hosts a conference in Michigan on April 17-19, 2015.
Russian MP Proposes Psychiatric Exams for All Election Candidates
"A nationalist lawmaker suggests making politicians disclose their psychiatric problems to the public and punish those who try to hide them by removing them...
Repercussions of Europe’s New Regulations for Release of Clinical Trial Data
In two posts on PLOS Blogs, Tom Jefferson of the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group in Italy reviews the European Medicines Agency’s new regulations...
“Safe Babies Courts” Reduce Trauma Impacts
-ACES Too High News examines what makes "Safe Babies Courts" different than normal courts.
Alaskan Indigenous Peoples Experiencing High Rates of Trauma
-Two reports found Alaskans of aboriginal descent experiencing very high rates of many different types of trauma.
“Makers of OxyContin Bankroll Efforts to Undermine Prescription Painkiller Reform”
The Intercept reports that the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and market opioid painkillers have funded a number of groups designed to fight prescription drug reform.
“Concern over anti-psychotic drug given to soldiers”
ABC News discovers that the military is resorting to antipsychotics to quiet traumatized soldiers, rather than treating the trauma.
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“Can Personality Traits Affect Use of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction?”
A new article in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine finds that MBSR, which combines yoga, meditation, and body scanning, may be especially...
“Most Who OD on Opioids are Able to Get New Prescriptions”
Felice J. Freyer for the Boston Globe reports on a new study of chronic pain treatment. “More than 90 percent of people who survived...
Affordable Care Act Will Expand Mental Health Services Into More Areas of People’s Lives
Since many more Americans now have mental health coverage as a result of the US Affordable Care Act, mental health services will soon begin...
Psychiatry’s Crisis May be Unsolvable
Even if The Lancet's attempts to forge a new vision in response to the crisis of confidence in medical psychiatry work (previously reported in...
“The ‘Still Face’ Video Still Packs an Emotional Wallop”
ACES Too High, the blog about Adverse Childhood Experiences, recalls the excruciating experiment and films concerning the impact of childhood neglect. A one-year-old baby...
Replicating Milgram’s Shock Experiments
A replication of Stanley Milgram's seminal experiments in obedience - replacing a scientific pretext with the opportunity to participate in a reality T.V. show...
