SSRIs, Autism, and the Law
Lawyers and Settlements.com explores the growing evidence of links between SSRIs, autism, and violence.
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NIMH Director Insel Proposes Solutions to Lack of Reproducibility in Research
National Institute of Mental Health Director Thomas Insel laments the lack of reproducibility in such a large majority of mental health-related research. He describes...
“The Business Interests Behind America’s Costly Medical Care”
Truthout explains that "Unlike most other wealthy countries, the U.S. lacks any central mechanism to constrain overall health-care spending. This has led us instead...
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...
“Why Are There Deadly Drugs?”
-Health policy analyst Joel Lexchin discusses how and why deadly drugs get onto the market and often take years to be identified and withdrawn.
End of the Road for Genetics/Behavior Claims?
In Discover, Neuroskeptic discusses a new study that "could undermine the concept of ‘endophenotypes’ – and thus derail one of the most promising lines...
“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 Surprising Reason Americans Might Feel Helpless and Depressed”
Alternet attributes America's depression epidemic to corporations and right-wing politics, which feed our sense of learned helplessness, exploiting "the various ways that we all...
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 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...
“How to Stop Violence”
Slate magazine chalks up one for the argument that "Mentally ill people aren’t killers. Angry people are . . . Violence is not a product...
“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...
“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...
“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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“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...
$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...
“Bipolar Writer Comments on Debate Over ‘Crisis in Psychiatry'”
John Horgan, who announced that The NIMH's move away from the DSM was "a move sure to rock psychiatry, psychology and other fields that...
Understanding the Impacts of Trauma
-A series of articles from the Connecticut Mirror investigate the impacts of trauma on people's lives and brains.
“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...
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."
“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...
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....
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...
“Running as Therapy”
Jen A. Miller writes in the New York Times "Exercise after heartbreak is not a new idea . . . Exercise makes us feel...
“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...
