$11 Billion in Drug Industry Fines Not Enough
The U.K.'s Independent asks whether the $11 Billion in fines that the drug industry has racked up, and related "corporate integrity agreements," are enough...
SSRIs, Autism, and the Law
Lawyers and Settlements.com explores the growing evidence of links between SSRIs, autism, and violence.
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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...
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 I’m depressed, my...
“New fMRI Study Sheds Light on Effectiveness of fMRI Studies“
A new study has raised new questions about how MRI scanners work in the quest to understand the brain. The research, led by Professor...
“This Is Your Brain on Poverty: What Science Tells Us About Poverty”
Truthout reviews recent evidence regarding the impact of poverty on mental illness, as well as IQ, and asks what it tells us about public...
“Running as Therapy”
Jen A. Miller writes in the New York Times "Exercise after heartbreak is not a new idea . . . Exercise makes us feel...
DSM — the Latest News and Happenings… Collected
Monica Cassani promises to add to Beyond Meds' chronicle, today and for the next week or so, of emerging coverage on the DSM rollout....
“The DSM is not Being Abandoned — Psychiatry is Finally Growing up”
Forbes magazine finds that the change in the NIMH's relationship with the DSM is "not so much that studies that use the DSM-5 will...
Sunshine Rule Making Progress
Pharmalot reports that the Sunshine Act, which is meant to make the financial connections between physicians, researchers and the pharmaceutical industry public, is coming...
Is Screening for Mental Illness in Children a Bad Idea?
Psychology Salon psychologist Randy Paterson discusses the Mad In America investigative report about a program that trains physicians and school staff to more readily diagnose mental illnesses in children. "Authors of the initiatives almost always talk about the enhancement of social supports, the provision of psychotherapy, involvement with community, and so on," writes Paterson. "But in the real world of medical practice, screening usually translates into prescriptions written."
“New Pill for Boosting Female Libidos Off to a Slow Start”
Ed Silverman reports that only 80 prescriptions for Addyi, or Flibanserin, were filled in the drugs’ first two weeks on the market.
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“Integrated Models in Psychiatry: the State of the Art”
An editorial in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology explores status of the "tenuous" relationship position of social psychiatry, "given psychiatry's primary orientation to the...
Thoughts About Depression From Under the Sheets
Scientific American guest writer Nicole Baganz, a neuroscientist from Vanderbilt University, explores the connections between depression, "sickness behavior", and the immune system.
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“4 in 10 Know Someone Addicted to Prescription Pain Killer”
A new poll, published in the Washington Post, explores the public’s connection to prescription pain killer abuse. “A surprising 56 percent of the public say...
“Dr. Insel’s Blog is not big News… It’s an Affirmation of Something That has...
1 Boring Old Man incisively analyzes NIMH director Thomas Insel's disavowal of the DSM, saying "it’s not likely to be a shock to the...
“The Influence of the American Mental Health Paradigm Cross-Culturally”
DXSummit details the ways that the American approach to mental health care has spread around the world, concluding "Perhaps it is time to start...
“The Anger and Rage Collection: What we Don’t Engage we Cannot Transform”
Another from the indefatigable Monica Cassani, on a theme close to the heart of this website: working with and through anger.
Thank you, Monica.
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“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...
“Mental health patients to Bernie Sanders: Don’t compare us to the GOP candidates”
The Washington Post reports that Bernie Sanders' remark likening the "antics" of Republican candidates during recent debates to people with mental health challenges has drawn an...
“Colorado Responds Slowly to Psychotropic Drug Use Among Foster Kids”
The Denver Post writes "Colorado officials have known since at least 2007 that prescriptions and dosage levels of psychotropic drugs — which also include antidepressants, mood...
Imagining the Fall of Antipsychotics
John Read and Phil Thomas imagine the eventual confession and apology by pharmaceutical companies - twenty years from now - of the harm done...
“Psychologist: Telling Your Child About Santa”
“Can Santa blur the divide between fantasy and reality and, as a result, delay a child’s cognitive development?”
“Tuesday Morning at the Old Asylum”
Jessica Griffith writes "I love the idea that we used to shelter not only the criminally dangerous but the sick in the soul, the...
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,...
