AARP Joins Antipsychotic Lawsuit Against CA Nursing Home

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The AARP has joined an "unprecedented class-action lawsuit" against a California nursing home accused of using antipsychotics without informed consent from residents or family...

Diagnosis and Treatment Have Changed: Depression and Anxiety Have Not

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Researchers investigating the state of mental health in Canadians from 1994 to 2008 found no change over time, but "the frequency of diagnosis and...

Pharmacology Gets More Cooperation Than Psychosocial Advice

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In a study of conformance to evidence-based treatment recommendations at mental health clinics among people diagnosed with schizophrenia, Canadian researchers found that conformance to...

Antidepressants and the Eyes

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Antidepressants can affect neurotransmitters involved in regulation of the iris, say researchers in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. In a study of Ā acute angle-closure...

People With Schizophrenia Diagnoses Actually Do Listen

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Contrary to the hypothesis that delusional beliefs in schizophrenia are a persistent general deficit, patients using a well-documented advice-taking task revise their beliefs, taking...

Skin-to-Skin Contact Benefits Mothers with Post-Partum Depression

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In a study of 90 new mothers in Nova Scotia, five hours per day of skin-to-skin contact (SSC) reduced mothers' depression scores in their...

Exercise Benefits Psychosis

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56 patients in an acute care setting for psychosis in Western Australia reported that a formal exercise program helped to manage their psychiatric symptoms,...

Antidepressant Use Associated With Menstruation Disorders

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In a study of 793 women taking antidepressants and 639 not taking them, researchers in Turkey found that menstruation disorders were significantly associated with...

Obstetric Complication, Cannabis Use: Strongest Predictors of Early Psychosis

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According to data drawn from 608 patients of an early intervention program in Dublin, presented at the 3rd Biennial Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS)...

Nursing Homes Shift Tactics on Dementia

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As part of a series on the inappropriate use of antipsychotics in nursing homes, the Boston Globe explores alternative approaches, such as llama therapy,...

Take a ride on the Mood Elevator

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These are not happy times for the embattled drug maker AstraZeneca.Ā  The patent for Seroquel has expired; the companyā€™s profits have plummeted; and its...

Review of the Evidence: Childhood Adversity High in Schizophrenia and Other Disorders

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Researchers from Australia and the UK found thatĀ people with a schizophrenia diagnosis almost four times more likely than controls to have a history of...

Long-Term Benzos Worsen Anxiety

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Long-term use of benzodiazepines for anxiety remains a widespread, despite guidelines that recommend against it, according to a roundtable discussionĀ at the annual conference of...

Intact Facial Affect Processing in Schizophrenia

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In two separate studies (one replicating the other) of 102 people with schizophrenia diagnoses researchers from McGill, UCLA, CSU, UNC, Columbia and the VA...

Questions About Childhood Trauma And Schizophrenia Settled

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In the first analysis of 30 years of studies, including 46 studies (selected from 27,000) involving 80,000 subjects, researchers in the U.K. and Australia...

Benzos Fail to Prevent, May Increase PTSD

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In a review of the evidence regarding benzodiazepines, researchers from the University of Michigan find that benzodiazepines used in the treatment of PTSD are...

Little Lasting Benefit From ECT

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The relapse rate after short-term ECT is high, according to a study in the Journal of ECT, "owing to resistance to medication in these...

The New York Times Magazine Article on Antidepressants

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In the Sunday New York Times Magazine, an article by Siddhartha Mukherjee entitled ā€œPost-Prozac Nationā€ appeared. I eagerly read this article, wondering what position...

SSRIs: More Harm Than Good

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Beginning with an "evolutionary analysis" and a review of serotonin's role in the body, researchers from Canada and the U.S. conduct a thorough review...

Fewer Antipsychotics, More Nurses Will Improve Care and Save Money in Nursing Homes

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The Center for Medicare Advocacy advised yesterday that nursing facilities could realize huge savings by eliminating "inappropriate and life-threatening" antipsychotic drugs. The statement added...

Life for Psychiatrists after Reading Bob Whitaker: Let’s Take Back Substance Abuse Treatment

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An astounding development is the explosion in the numbers of substance abusers being diagnosed with Bipolar. I teach a class in Substance Abuse at...

Compulsory Hospitalization Does Not Improve Outcomes

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Researchers in Israel followed 320 patients who had been admitted involuntarily with schizophrenia diagnoses. Ā 157 (49%) left the hospital against medical advice (AMA), and...

Income Differentials Cause Mental Illness

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Data from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Survey showed that early-onset mental disorders were associated with reduced household income in high and...

Schizophrenia Prevents Cancer; Antipsychotics May Cause It

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In a review of all 59,233 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia in Sweden between 1965 and 2008, researchers from Sweden and the U.S. identified 6137...

Do Benzos Deserve a Major Role in the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders?

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Researchers at the University of Milan and King's College, London thoroughly reviewed the literature available on Medline and Cochrane regarding the use of benzodiazepines...