“Mental health: On the spectrum”
Nature writes of the paucity of agreement on how to define or describe mental illness. "The problem is that biologists have been unable to...
“AbbVie & GSK Can Buy Your Data for Almost Nothing”
David Healy reposts a blog from OpenDemocracy.net, now reposted here: "This prescient post written by Phil Booth was posted on OpenDemocracy.net under the title Your...
“Psychosis Risk Syndrome is Back to Haunt Us”
Allen Frances adds to his catalog of DSM-5 mistakes with the return of the controversial - and ultimately rejected - "Psychosis Risk Disorder", under...
“Steps to Reduce Pharma Influence over Canadian Docs Criticized”
The College of Family Physicians of Canada has now come under fire after releasing a report last month addressing conflicts of interests between pharma...
The Connection Between Psychiatric Medications & Violence: Rooting Out the Causes of the Newtown...
Emma Bragdon compiles the evidence on the connection between antidepressant medication and violence for Elephant Journal. (Free registration required).
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Australian Government Proposes Taking Welfare from Psychiatric Patients
-Green Party Senator Rachel Siewert calls "insidious" an Australian government plan to take income support away from anyone undergoing psychiatric confinement.
“Potential biomarker that could predict”? – caveats about psychiatric brain imaging
-HealthNewsReview.org takes on Dr. Richard Friedman's description of a “potential biomarker in the brain that would help psychiatrists direct depressed patients towards treatment to which they would more likely respond.”
“Regulating the Intersection of Health Care and Gun Control”
-Attorney Charles Kels analyzes recent legislation requiring health care providers to disclose mental health information about patients to government.
Check the FAQs On Online Counseling
-Some online counseling services have half-hidden disclaimers that they aren't actually providing "counseling."
“Strength-Based Approaches to Community Healing”
Keris Myrick, MIA blogger and President of the NAMI board of directors, writes in Clinical Psychiatry News about community-based solutions that are working, and mentions...
Old Dogs Do Have Trouble Learning New Tricks — Can They Teach Us About...
-University of Kentucky's Elizabeth Head discusses her research into learning in elderly beagles who, unlike mice and rats, can seemingly develop dementia like humans.
“Justina Pelletier’s Case: Sure, Parents Can Make Their Kids Sick”
Psychiatrist Keith Ablow of Fox News writes "That’s why Boston’s Children’s Hospital, in making a play to take over the life of Justina Pelletier,...
“Is the World More Depressed?”
Tanya Luhrmann writes in the NY Times that, although diagnosis and pathologization of human experience has increased, "there is reason to believe that mental...
Understanding the Impacts of Trauma
-A series of articles from the Connecticut Mirror investigate the impacts of trauma on people's lives and brains.
Are Obsessively Healthy Eating Habits Becoming Like Disorders?
-Salon looks at people's increasing obsessions with eating "properly," and how many of these tendencies are starting to look like their own kinds of eating "disorders."
“’Spectre’ Villain Fails Neuroanatomy in Latest Bond Film”
Neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Cusimano published a commentary in Nature explaining that the latest Bond villain placed his robotic drill in the wrong location in his attempt to destroy 007’s memory of faces.
“Psychiatry and Mental Illness: Has Science Gone Too Far?”
Salon magazine takes a look at the DSM/RDoC controversy/dilemma, concluding "A world in which we have blood tests for mental disorders is probably far...
“The Psychological is Political”
Joanna Moncrieff writes in Occupied Times that "The concept of mental illness is useful partly because it provides a conveniently elastic justification for control and...
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...
Outrage Over Biotech Party Objectifying Women
“Two prominent women in the biotech community were so appalled by reports about a party at J.P. Morgan featuring scantily clad models that they've...
“Cop Stalks Woman, Has Her Committed When She Rejects Him”
-AlterNet reports on a lawsuit that accuses a police officer of abusing his mental health law powers.
“When Pills Are the Problem”
In the context of the Silicon Valley suicides, one mother offers her story about her daughter. “It’s my premise that not only the culture of Silicon Valley, but also, almost more importantly, the nature of the remedies that are being proposed in the name of mental health counseling, are to blame in these deaths.”
“The Virtual Clinic Is Open And Ready For Business”
The Carlat Blog writes about a service that calls itself "'the simplest and most convenient way to solve the most common medical conditions that...
“On Data Sharing, Pharmaceutical Companies Finally Open Up”
The Wall Street Journal dives into pharma research transparency: "Over the past few years, the pharmaceutical industry has been embroiled in controversy over access...
“When Does That Go On Trial?”
1 Boring Old Man scrutinizes the evidence that Johnson & Johnson hid evidence of Risperdal's breast-growing properties, among other improper actions, concluding "The story...
