Abilify Lawsuit Dismissed
LAW360 reports that a Pennsylvania federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit over a movement disorder attributed to Bristol-Myers' drug Abilify. Â The judge held that...
Childhood Stress Subtypes Predict Adult Psychiatric Subtypes
A review of the literature from 2001 to 2011 on child abuse, neglect, and psychiatric disorders finds that early life stress subtypes can predict...
J&J Asks to Keep Risperdal Studies Under Seal
Law 360 reports that Johnson & Johnson asked a Pennsylvania judge to keep a series of clinical studies related to the drug Risperdal under...
Murder/Suicide Lawsuit Blames Chantix
The widow of  Darwin Stout - who murdered their son and took his own life while taking the nicotine-cessation drug Chantix - has filed...
Leader in World Psychiatry Calls for Radical Change
- Incoming president of WPA questions medical model
- Focus should be on functioning, not symptoms
- Says psychiatry has much to apologize for
Increasing Mental Health Diagnoses of Youth, by Non-Psychiatrist MDs
The mental health care of young people has increased more rapidly than that of adults, and has coincided with increased psychotropic medication use, according...
Chairman of DSM-5 Task Force & Others Belatedly Admit Conflict of Interest Related to...
The authors of a paper that endorses a computerized test for depression have acknowledged failure to disclose joint ownership of a company formed to bring the test to...
Diagnosis Dispute Traps Teenager in Boston Children’s Hospital
Justina Pelletier, a 15-year-old Connecticut teenager who had been diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, remains trapped in Boston Children's Hospital 9 months after a team...
J&J Fraud Plea Prompts Academics to Regret Participation
Following Johnson & Johnson's record $2.2 billion settlement for criminal marketing â including $1.4 billion related to its marketing of Risperdal, making it one of the...
Sleep Therapy for Depression
Pending research on the connection between insomnia and depression offers new prospects for treatment, according to recent articles in the New York Times. Â "Psychiatrists...
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome Linked to Polypharmacy, Benzos, and Race
Research from London and Taipei finds that neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is associated with the number of different antipsychotics used (polypharmacy), rather than the overall...
Childhood Social Function & Schizophrenia
A 48-year longitudinal study of 244 subjects, published in Schizophrenia Research, finds that those with schizophrenia-spectrum diagnoses had had the worst social functioning scores at...
Benzos & Brain Tumors
Researchers in Taiwan found a 3.33x greater risk of benign brain tumors in patients who had been prescribed benzodiazepines for at least 2 months....
Antidepressants & Sexual Function
Two studies of the effects of antidepressants on sexual function - one on the relative effects across classes of antidepressants on men, the other...
Environment is a Primary Factor in Transition to Psychosis
Researchers (including Jim van Os)Â find, in a three-year cohort study of 1272 people at possible genetic risk of psychosis, that "most transitions (to psychosis)...
Childhood Trauma Linked to Bipolar Diagnosis, Symptoms
Research on a sample of 587 patients with DSM-IV defined bipolar disorder finds that an earlier age at onset of bipolar illness - along...
U.K.’s Guardian Survey: “Your Experiences of Antidepressants”
The U.K. newspaper The Guardian asked readers of five newspapers in the U.K., Germany, France, Spain and Italy to talk about their experiences of...
Call for Papers: Critical Underpinnings of User/Survivor Research and Co-Production
The journal Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology is calling for proposals for papers "aimed at tackling the 'hard' questions implicated in processes of user/survivor inclusion,...
One in Five Diagnosed With ADHD May Develop Cocaine Habit as Adults
Research from Boston University suggests that exposure to stimulant medications such as Ritalin during adolescence may result in cocaine addiction in later life. âYou...
New Research on Insomnia & Depression
The New York Times reports on new research from multiple sources that finds focused attention on insomnia is proving to be a "cheap, relatively...
Janssen to Pay $11M for Failure to Warn of Topamax Birth Defects
A Philadelphia jury yesterday ordered Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen to pay $11 million to the parents of a five-year-old boy for failure to warn...
SinĂ©ad OâConnor: Mental Health, the Media, and Human Rights
Sinéad O'Connor discusses mental health issues with TIME magazine this week, singling out the media's tendency to diagnose "without qualification," and adding that "mental health...
$2.2B J&J Settlement: Only the Beginning
At least 250 lawsuits involving Johnson & Johnson's improper marketing of Risperdal are pending in Pennsylvania's Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, according to information...
Lowered ADHD Threshold “More Harm Than Good” (BMJ)
Analysis in the British Medical Journal concludes that the lowered thresholds for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder diagnosis in DSM-5 will mean "that many children...
Risperdal Lawsuits Continue After $2.2 Billion Settlement
A Texas man filed a lawsuit in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas against Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, Janssen, in connection to...
