Are We Entering a New Era for Treatment Choice for Schizophrenia?
Domain-B, noting that "There is now incontrovertible evidence that has established that far from psychosis being incomprehensible, there is a clear link between schizophrenia...
“Psychosis Poses Drugs Dilemma: A veteran psychiatrist concludes that some patients are better off...
MiA blogger Sandra Steingard's Washington Post article "A Psychiatrist Thinks Some Patients are Better off Without Antipsychotic Drugs" is getting wider play, reprinted yesterday in...
“It’s the Drugs, Stupid!”
Gary Kohls, MD, revisits an article from AmericanThinker.com that suggests "Today, many of our children are prescribed the same psychotropic drugs as were given...
“Should Children Take Antipsychotic Drugs?”
Scientific American notices that "Prescriptions are on the rise, but evidence for the drugs' safety and effectiveness is mixed."
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“ADHD, Bipolar Disorder and the DSM: A Need for Uncertainty?”
Claudia M. Gold, a psychiatrist who writes for the Boston Globe, takes on The New Republic's article ADHD Does Not Exist, which, she says,...
“Autoimmune Issues Manifest in Many Ways Affecting both Mind and Body”
Beyond Meds reflects on the implications of "Autoimmune Attack Behind Some Cases of Schizophrenia," an article in NewScientist.
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“ADHD Does Not Exist”
The New Republic assays into the the ripe fields of debate over the ADHD diagnosis.
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“Manic Researchers Announce They Are Hours Away From Cure For Depression” (Satire)
The satirical newspaper The Onion reports on a team of researchers who, "Speaking loudly and quickly without any notable pauses . . . announced...
“What is Mental Health? How Do We Create it?”
The Civic Commons, "a national network of independent therapy and life coaching centers" invites Mad in America readers "to join an international conversation on...
Kelly McGonigal: How to Make Stress Your Friend
This TED Talk sheds new light on stress. "... While stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress...
“Tim Gunn: On And Off The Runway, ‘Life Is A Big Collaboration'”
Avatar of equipoise Tim Gunn, reflecting on his two and a half years in a psychiatric hospital, offers some life advice to Terry Gross...
“Teach Medical Students How To Be Placebos”
On considering recent research that shows various modes of delivering treatments results in varying levels of placebo response, medical student Karan Chhabra considers "What combination of...
“Is Everything You Know about Happiness Wrong?”
Sonja Lyubomirsky's book examines the false assumptions we all have about what makes us happy, and points in the direction of how to actually...
“All Joy and No Fun” – NY Times Book Review
Andrew Solomon's review of "All Joy and No Fun" by Jennifer Senior serves as a great reminder of the importance of good parenting -...
“How Big Pharma Brainwashes Americans Into Believing They’re Sick”
Alternet on the ways that "Big Pharma uses celebrities and other sneaky ways to sell diseases that may not exist."
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“Oliver Sacks: I Want to De-Stigmatise Hallucinations”
Oliver Sacks opines in NewScientist that "there's a common view, often shared by doctors, that hallucinations denote madness - especially if there's any hearing...
“Prescription Drugs Lead to Growing Problem of Infant Addiction”
Ten years ago, infants born with drug addictions was associated with street drugs. But the rise of prescription drug addiction in the past ten...
“Diagnosing Mental Illness in Ancient Greece and Rome”
The Atlantic interviews William V. Harris, author of Mental Disorders in the Classical World, about "how the ancient Greeks and Romans approached mental illness and...
“Cannabis Has Been Studied More Than Many FDA Approved Pharmaceuticals”
High Times points out that, with over 20,000 published studies or reviews in the scientific literature that reference cannabis and its active components, science...
“For the Mentally Ill, It’s Worse”
The New York Times' Joe Nocera notes the republication of “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?”, Susan Sheehan's 1982 book about Maxine Mason's journey....
“Forget the Headlines – Schizophrenia is More Common Than You Might Think”
Despite the headline, this article in The Guardian reviews the notion that schizophrenia is "a wide range of often unrelated conditions, all of which...
“Are All Psychological Therapies Equally Effective? Don’t Ask the Dodo”
The Guardian reviews the hypothesis that all therapies are equal, in light of recent evidence, finding that ". . . we shouldn't assume that the...
“5 Shady Ways Big Pharma May Be Influencing Your Doctor”
Alternet reviews the ways that "Pharma can entice doctors to prescribe its expensive patent drugs, even when they are dangerous."
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“Psychiatrists From Another Dimension”
Neuroskeptic reviews the implications of the new/old interest in "dimensional" diagnosis in DSM-5 (which involves acknowledgment of symptoms across categories of diagnosis, rather than...
“Benzodiazepine Withdrawal as Told by a Woman in the Midst of it…”
A stirringly told story of benzodiazepine withdrawal. Beyond Meds adds helpful information and links, as well.
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