“Brain Region Found That Does Absolutely Nothing” (Humor)
"Some neuroscientists are disappointed by the regionsâ lack of response ... 'We tried everything we knew, with over 20 different participants. IQ tests, memory...
“Whatâs So Special about Mirror Neurons?”
Scientific American reviews the claims and counter-claims of the role that "mirror neurons" play in "mental illness."
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“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...
Nail Biting may be OCD in DSM-5
Along with hair-pulling and skin-picking, nail biting is under consideration to be included as an OCD-spectrum disorder in the the DSM-5. "The beauty is that...
Today’s Greatest Mental Health Need: Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Programs
Dr. Peter Breggin blogs in the Huffington Post on the need for programs to support psychiatric drug withdrawal, rather than more diagnosis and medication.
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“The ‘Seriously Mentally Ill’ are NOT Dying 25 Years Earlier Because of Failure to...
Alt_Mentalities corrects the record on why people with mental health diagnoses are dying young.
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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.
1 Boring Old Man on the Glaxo Pledge
1 Boring Old Man theorizes (with a nod to Bob Fiddaman) that the recent appearance of data from study 329 and Glaxo's pledge to...
A World Without the DSM
AltMentalities publishes a letter dreaming of a "world, much like our own, (where) there is still suffering. There is still poverty, crime, crushing...
Will Hall speaks to the APA
Beyond Meds offers an audio recording of Will Hall "a living example of someone who now thrives as a result of trusting his gut...
“Szasz Turned Psychiatry on it Head”
The Baltimore Sun reflects on "the kind of author no one reads but everyone knows about. That's unfortunate. Too many mental health professionals haven't the foggiest...
Data Access: The World-Wide Wait
1 Boring Old Man revisits the Robert Gibbons articles in light of David Healy's presentation to the APA last week; "His papers had no...
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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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...
Good People in Bad Systems Perpetrate Acts of Great Evil
Ben Goldacre answers readers' questions in the The Guardian.
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Stockholm Syndrome and the Identified Patient
Monica Cassani, reflecting on David Healy's explication of the ways the psychiatric system as it currently operates turns "patients" into hostages, and her own...
Trauma and Misdiagnosis in Childhood Bipolar Disorder
Psychology Today offers a psychoanalytic perspective on childhood bipolar disorder that finds trauma at the root, a view that sees Beyond Meds as extending beyond the diagnoses...
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,...
The Depression Problem
Salon.com offers a personal experience of depression, starting with "I wish they would stop calling depression a mental illness. Because when Iâm depressed, my...
1 Boring Old Man Roundup
1 Boring Old Man has been a very busy (old) man, with more background on the Philadelphia gynecomastia trial, notice of unrepresentative sampling for clinical...
The History of Whistleblowing, and Whistleblower of the Year
1 Boring Old Man reviews the history of whistleblowing, and the story of Allen Jones, who started the ball rolling on the Johnson &...
Clinical Intuition, Clinical Trials, and the Library at Alexandria
1 Boring Old Man revisits the question of reliance on clinical intuition vs. research, and watching the research upon which his young career was...
“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...
“If This Isn’t Racketeering…”
1 Boring Old Man opines that the lawyers in the Texas TMAP trial "were operating on a higher plane than these guys in Philadelphia,"...
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Monica Cassani writes an impassioned review of Ben Goldacre's new book Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients.
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