“Dr. Inselâs Blog is not big News⌠Itâs an Affirmation of Something That has...
1 Boring Old Man incisively analyzes NIMH director Thomas Insel's disavowal of the DSM, saying "itâs not likely to be a shock to the...
“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.
Risks of Preterm Births for Developing Brains
-Nature explores our growing understanding about the risks of preterm births for the development of children's brains.
“Depression, Desire, Addiction: Is Meditation the Answer to Changing Your Brain?”
The Huffington Post touches in on the mind/body connection.
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“Suffering From Depression? Take a Course of Surf Lessons! Doctors Prescribe Watersports for Young...
A pilot program of Britain's national health service prescribes surfing lessons for youth with anxiety disorders. 'What is great is it doesnât feel like therapy...
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....
Health is not “Alternative”
Beyond Meds lays bare the irony that "practicing simple healthy habits is called 'alternative' health and/or medicine."
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“Depressing Truth About Treating Depression in the Young”
An Irish journalist poses as a student and receives seven prescriptions for antidepressants from seven psychiatrists, with little or no information either taken or...
“Instead of paying doctors to promote their drugs, GlaxoSmithKline has decided to pay doctors...
In "Time is on Their Side," 1BoringOldMan explains that with their announcement that they will no longer pay outside doctors to promote their drugs,...
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...
“Why Do More Men than Women Kill Themselves?”
In Scientific American Blogs, Jesse Bering argues that there's at least one simple explanation for why more men than women kill themselves: Their respective...
“What’s it Really Like to Take Antidepressants?”
Britain's HealthTalkOnline.org offers videotaped interviews with 36 people in their homes, talking about their decision to take antidepressants and the impact of that decision...
“How to Win Wars by Influencing People’s Behaviour”
The Guardian explores the ways that the military is using "a new approach informed by the behavioral sciences . . . changing behaviour â not...
“Off-Label Prescribing: What You Donât Know Could Hurt You”
PharmaWatch Canada details the paradoxes of off-label prescribing, in which doctors may prescribe but pharmaceutical companies may not promote medication for conditions for which...
“Brains as Clear as Jell-O for Scientists to Explore”
A process that turns brains into something like clear Jell-o offers "a much more precise picture of what is happening in the brains of...
“Stop Forced (Involuntary) Treatment Becoming the Law of the Land. Act Now”
Beyond Meds provides the information you need if you want to stop section 224 of HR 4302 - A list of senators, and a...
Half of New Zealanders Not Comfortable Having a New Neighbor with a Mental Illness
-The 2014 New Zealand General Social Survey showed many New Zealanders feel more comfortable having neighbors with different sexual orientations or from minority groups than with mental illness.
Is Health Information Security Dead?
-The director of the Office for Civil Rights discusses the latest wave of data breaches of American citizens' health information.
Misconduct, Intentional and/or Institutional, in Science and Finance
Neuroskeptic compares misconduct as it occurs in science to that of finance, finding that deliberate rule-breaking such as that of Bernie Madoff and others,...
Parasites Can Alter Behavior
Science News reviews the prevalence of Toxoplasmosis Gondii in humans, and its effects on behavior. Though the connection of Gondii to schizophrenia is weak,...
Judge Drug Companies by Actions, Not Promises
Ben Goldacre writes about Glaxo's, as well as the pharmaceutical industry's, history of broken promises regarding access to clinical trial data.
“Scandal Shows Mental Health Inpatient Voice is Crucial”
The U.K.'s Guardian writes, of lessons learned from the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal, that "the individuals who society finds easiest to ignore are the...
A New Kind of Empirical Article
Neurochambers' Chris Chambers, a freshly-minted associate editor for journal Cortex, asks for comments on "the most important thing I have committed to this blog...
