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...
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...
“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...
“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...
“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...
“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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“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...
“Doctor: Possible Links Between Antidepressants, Pregnancy And Autism”
MIA blogger Adam Urato on Boston's WBUR radio station, talking about recent research linking antidepressants with autism.
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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,...
“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...
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...
“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...
“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?”
“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 – not...
FDA Invites Comments on Guidelines for Informed Consent
The United States Food and Drug Administration is inviting comments on its new draft guidelines for informed consent. "This guidance is intended to provide...
Sunday Humor: Ask Your Doctor
PharmaGossip has published a couple of comics, "Ask Your Doctor" and "Drug Trials." No spoilers before the jump.
There's also a 90-minute documentary on how...
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.
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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J&J Tries to Block a Reporter from Courtroom
Philadelphia Inquirer reporter David Sell writes of Johnson & Johnson's attempt to remove him from the courtroom during jury selection for the upcoming Risperdal...
Beyond Meds’ Top Ten of 2014
MIA Blogger Monica Cassani of Beyond Meds has posted the top 10 articles from her website in 2014, as well as a list of...
“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,...
“Off-Label Prescribing: What You Don’t 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...
Prominent Patient Safety Advocate Was Taking Kickbacks from Pharma
ProPublica revisits the story of Dr. Chuck Denham, the previous editor of the Journal of Patient Safety and former "co-chairman of a committee that...
