Antenatal Depression Associated w/Mom’s Childhood Maltreatment
Maternal antenatal depression is highly correlated with a history of the mother having been mistreated in childhood, and these two facts significantly increase the...
Exercise, Depression, and Bias
Scientific American reviews the effect of exercise on depression, the effect of encouragement to exercise on exercising, the effect of bias on the consumption of...
MindFreedom’s “I Got Better” Campaign Defies Hopelessness
MindFreedom International announced the launch today of its "I Got Better" campaign with an invitation to participate in the "Survey on Hope in Mental...
Peter Breggin Testifies for the “Zoloft Defense”
Dr. Peter Breggin, acting as an expert witness for the defense in former police officer Anthony Orban's California trial for kidnapping and rape, testified...
The Genetics of Depression: “Look to the Environment”
A comprehensive review of research on the genetics of depression up to 2012, published online today by Psychological Bulletin, finds "a continued lack of...
Closing Arguments Start Today in California “Zoloft Defense” Case
The trial of former California police officer Anthony Orban for rape goes to closing arguments today. Orban is pleading "not guilty by reason of...
J&J to Pay $2.2 Billion to Settle Government’s Risperdal Probe
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $2.2 billion to settle probes by the U.S. government of its marketing of Risperdal and other medications,...
Eye Movement and the Schizophrenia Diagnosis
Researchers from the U.S., Germany and the U.K. found they were able to differentiate 88 persons with schizophrenia diagnoses from 88 controls with almost...
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy is Effective for Current Depression
A randomized, controlled trial by researchers in the Netherlands compared 102 subjects with recurrent depression receiving mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) + treatment-as-usual (TAU) with...
CBT Without Medication is Safe and Effective For Psychosis
A small sample of 20 people with schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses who had refused or discontinued medication were given cognitive therapy by researchers in the...
Psychosis = Hallucination+Delusion
Drawing from the Netherlands Mental Health and Incidence Study (n=7075), researchers from the Netherlands and the U.K. examined psychotic experiences and clinical outcomes for...
Neurofeedback May Improve Self-Regulation of Emotion
A small pilot study of neurofeedback as a tool for self-regulation of emotion networks in the brain found that eight patients with depression learned...
Childhood Stress Alters Memory and Brain Structure
Researchers from the universities of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New Orleans collected MRI scans and assessments of executive functioning and stress exposure from 61...
WRAP Reduces Depression and Anxiety, Improves Recovery
519 individuals recruited from community mental health settings in Ohio were assigned to Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) or treatment as usual and assessed...
Neurobiology and Schizophrenia: “The Elusive Correlation”
Despite developments in neuroscience that provide "a way to study schizophrenia in vivo ... efforts to understand the neurobiological bases of the clinical symptoms that...
Oxytocin – “The Love Hormone” – Improves Cognition in Schizophrenia
Oxytocin, which has "shown promise as a novel antipsychotic in multiple clinical trials," improved cognition in a small sample (n=15) of people with schizophrenia...
Human Behavioral Genetics’ “Unfulfilled Promise”
A review of the literature on behavioral genetics, published online today by Developmental Psychobiology, finds "powerful new methods have failed to reveal even one bona...
Children Raised in Institutions: Increased ADHD, Anxiety, etc.
Data drawn from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project show that children raised in institutions in Romania exhibit elevated symptoms of ADHD, anxiety, depression, and...
Why the Delay Between Psychotropics’ Immediate and “Therapeutic” Effects?
Writing in Neuron that antipsychotics' "functional consequences and the subcellular sites of their accumulation in nervous tissue have remained elusive," researchers from Germany and...
Anxiety Accounts for Bipolar False Positives
Researchers found that of 1,534 patients assessed at Australia's Black Dog Institute Depression clinic, a significant number received a false positive diagnosis of bipolar...
Antidepressants Cause Autism-Like Gene Expression in Fish
Prozac, Effexor, and/or carbamazepine induce gene expression patterns in the brains of fathead minnows that mimic those thought to be associated with autism in...
“Psychiatric Power: A Personal View” by Pat Bracken
Psychiatrist Pat Bracken, "a friend of Mad Pride Ireland," writes about the current state of psychiatry in the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. As...
Injuries and Mental Illness
A retrospective study of 6,234 Medicaid recipients in Maryland by researchers at Johns Hopkins and published online June 2, 2012 by the journal Injury...
Antidepressants Linked to Osteoporosis and Fractures
Researchers from Switzerland, the U.K., Belgium, Denmark, Canada, Italy, Austria and the U.S. review the current evidence linking antidepressants to loss of bone mineral...
Stress Response in Individuals and Families Predicts Psychosis
Researchers from King's College, London, reviewed all studies examining psychological and biological markers of the stress response in both individuals at high risk of...
