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A new literature review reinforces the need to “down-titrate” or taper antidepressants, especially drugs like Celexa and Paxil.

Researchers can’t predict the 15% who benefit from antidepressants, and the other 85% are unnecessarily exposed to the harms of the drugs.

When comparing kids with the same symptoms who were either diagnosed with ADHD or not, those who received the diagnosis had worse outcomes.

Risk of depression increased when children were taking methylphenidate for ADHD, but once they stopped taking the drug, depression risk dropped to normal levels.

According to patient reports, SSRI antidepressants most frequently lead to the subjective experience of emotional blunting.

Nassir Ghaemi: “Most psychiatric medications are purely symptomatic, with no known or proven effect on the underlying disease. They are like 50 variations of aspirin, used for fever or headache, rather than drugs that treat the causes of fever or headache.”

A study finds that commonly prescribed antidepressants are associated with the development of diabetes, hypertension, and other diseases.

In a real-world setting, less than a quarter of patients diagnosed with depression improved with medication, hospitalization, and therapy.

Researchers suggest that antidepressant withdrawal can be a possible precipitant of suicide.

New research reveals that patients are often not given fully informed consent before being prescribed antipsychotics.

People with "serious mental illness" who stop taking antipsychotics are more likely to recover, even when accounting for baseline severity.

MIA’s Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Sunil Bhatia about decolonizing psychology, confronting the field’s racist past, colonial foundations, and neoliberal present.

Researchers found that 25% of elderly patients taking antidepressants had serotonin syndrome, which is potentially life-threatening.

With the chemical imbalance theory falling out of fashion, researchers examine the claim that psychiatry never truly endorsed it.

Robin Williams had "therapeutic" levels of the tetra-cyclic antidepressant mirtazapine in his blood at the time of his suicide, according to the coroner's report...

Mark Horowitz and David Taylor provide advice on how to tell the difference between antidepressant withdrawal and depression relapse.

A new study reveals many benzodiazepine users are misinformed about the risks of withdrawal and experience devastating consequences.

“Efforts to improve learning in children with ADHD should focus on obtaining effective academic instruction rather than stimulant medication.”

A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry connects antipsychotics with damage to the brain in multiple areas.

Researchers highlight how systematic reviews are compromised by pharmaceutical industry ties by exposing a study of injectable antipsychotics.

Withholding antipsychotics may be beneficial for memory, the researchers write.

Babies born to mothers taking antidepressants during pregnancy were more than six times as likely to have neonatal withdrawal syndrome—including breathing problems, irritability/agitation, tremors, feeding problems, and seizures—than those born to mothers taking other types of drugs.

New research examines service user attitudes on discontinuing and reducing antipsychotic drugs.

A new study found that taking antidepressants did not improve quality of life.

A new research article asserts that the overuse of psychiatric drugs may create neurobiological changes that hamper long-term mental health recovery.