Anatomy of a Coverup
The New York Times analyzes the process whereby Celebrex, an arthritis drug, was promoted by Prizer despite knowing that it was no more effective...
Familial Factors Affect Depression, BD, OCD, PD, and Phobias
A study of 566 families with 1416 bipolar-disordered members, and 675 families with 1726 depressed members by researchers from Johns Hopkins and the University...
Members of Parliament Disclose Struggles w/ Depression & Anxiety
"Like a hundred little blackmails a day" is how British Member of Parliament Charles Walker described his struggle with obsessive compulsive disorder. He, along...
Global Mental Health Research Needs Cultural Perspective
This paper in Transcultural Psychiatry states that global mental health (GMH) research "appears to be using a monocultural model that is individualistic, illness-oriented, and...
Transcultural Limitations of Medical Model Treatment in Ghana
An anthropological study of mental health service use in Ghana, published online June 21 in Transcultural Psychiatry, finds that counter to expectations almost all those...
Atypicals Associated with Diabetes in Adults Without Schizophrenia or Bipolar Diagnoses
Writing in Evidence Based Mental Health, researchers from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital found that use of medication for diabetes was significantly...
Cannabis and Psychosis
The June issue of Current Pharmaceutical Design is devoted to a review of the interaction between cannabis and psychosis.
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Response to Placebo is On the Rise
Study subjects' responses to placebo have increased from an average two-point decline in symptom ratings in studies done from 1991 to 1998, to an...
Norway Prosecutors Ask for Psychiatric Care, Not Prison
Saying "in our opinion, it is worse that a psychotic person is sentenced to preventative detention than a nonpsychotic person is sentenced to compulsory...
“Mental Illness” and the Spiral of Shame
A researcher from the University of California in Santa Barbara writes today in the Journal of Social Psychiatry that "one reason that theories of...
Association Between Age of Psychosis Onset and Cannabis Use
Researchers at Harvard, NYU, and the VA say in a study published online today by Schizophrenia Research that the age at which 57 subjects...
Amygdala Development and Caregiver Absence
A researcher from UCLA writes in Developmental Psychobiology of the effects of caregiver absence on the development of the amygdala, suggesting that caregiver deprivation...
“Zoloft Defense” Defendant Testifies on His Own Behalf
Anthony Orban, the defendant in a California trial for kidnap and rape, who is claiming that a Zoloft-driven psychosis rendered him unaware of his...
Updates on Johnson & Johnson
Arkansas judge Tim Fox, who ruled earlier this year that Janssen Pharmaceuticals and its parent company Johnson & Johnson had concealed risks associated with...
British Psychological Society Critiques the DSM-5
The British Psychological Society has "serious concerns about many aspects of the framework. In our response we have argued that the categorical framework of...
Hyperactivity Meds Jump 46%
Following an FDA study that found a 46% rise in ADHD prescriptions from 2002-2010, a review in Death and Taxes looks at better marketing...
“Zoloft Defense” Trial Enters “Sanity Phase”
The trial of Anthony Orban enters the "sanity phase," during which jurors will decide whether Orban was in control of his actions at the...
“Psychiatry Takes a Beating” in Norway
"Anders Behring Breivik is not standing trial alone in Oslo. Psychiatry is being judged as well," says Time magazine, as the trial nears its...
Senate to Hear Testimony on Deinstitutionalization on Olmstead Act’s 13th Anniversary
Alabama Mental Health Commissioner Zelia Baugh is scheduled to testify before a U.S. Senate committee Thursday about community treatment of the mentally ill and...
Need-Adapted Treatment Funded in NY
"Parachute NYC: an alternative approach to mental health treatment and crisis services" has been awarded $17,608,085 to fund "a need-adapted treatment model (NATM) intervention for...
Antipsychotics Aren’t Helpful to Children
Researchers from London, writing in European Psychiatry, reviewed "all RCTs involving children and young people with a diagnosis of childhood onset schizophrenia comparing any...
Nevada Legislation Aims to Curb Psychotropics in Foster Children
A touching article in the Las Vegas Sun follows one child from abandonment through foster placements, polypharmacy, suicidality, delinquency and homelessness to stability off...
Military Suicides Outnumber Combat Deaths
In a reversal of an historic rate of suicides below that of the general population, suicides in the military have surged. Newsweek explores the...
Call For Psych Beds Surges
Debate abounds about the factors driving a nationwide "shortage" of psychiatric hospital beds.
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Treating Anxiety by Tapering Off Antidepressants
Researchers from Samaritan Mental Health in Corvallis, Oregon successfully treated 12 patients for anxiety by discontinuing their antidepressant medications. Some received alternative medications for...
