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In a study of antipsychotics used to treat 75,445 patients in nursing homes in the United States, researchers from Harvard Medical School, Columbia and...

Understanding schizophrenia as a non-enigmatic, understandable human experience goes against a history of institutional “othering” that has sustained psychiatric legitimacy and further marginalized service-users.

New research contends that ketamine can reduce problematic alcohol use but does the data support the claims?

In "the first randomised trial of cognitive therapy for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders not taking antipsychotic drugs", researchers from the U.K. found cognitive...

Researchers examine how rapid discontinuation can mimic the relapse of mental health symptoms and confound psychiatric drug studies.

Despite guidance that the drugs should only be used short-term, about a third of patients indicated long-term benzo use.

Researchers review a new synthesis of the existing evidence and conclude that the harms of antidepressants outweigh any benefits.

Psychiatrist Pat Bracken, "a friend of Mad Pride Ireland," writes about the current state of psychiatry in the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. As...

A new pilot study finds that an exercise intervention can lead to improvement in clinical, social, and cognitive domains for those deemed at risk for psychosis.

Researchers studying 309 6-month-olds at Emory University's Infant Development Laboratory found that infants prenatally exposed to antipsychotics showed significantly lower scores on a standardized...

A team from Sweden's Karolinska Institute and Britain's University College of London found, in a study of 1.3 million people in Sweden's national register,...

The narratives about Bipolar Disorder promoted by drug companies may influence how those diagnosed understand themselves.

The FDA released a report in July of a trial on children and adolescents of the selegiline (Emsam) transdermal patch for treatment of depression,...

People show greater trust in studies with neuroscience language, graphs, and especially brain images.

New study reveals: 2 in 3 people need more than the current antidepressant benefits to consider them worthwhile.

A massive number of meta-analyses of antidepressant clinical trials have financial conflicts of interest and are unduly influenced by pharmaceutical companies, according to a review to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. Researchers also found that meta-analyses with industry ties almost never report any negative findings in their abstracts.

In research that may have implications for depression in humans, researchers at Ohio State find that hamsters exposed to blue and white light rather...

In October of 2006 Switzerland enacted a law requiring a certified psychiatrist - rather than a physician or resident - to compel an involuntary...

Researchers interviewed people who were given medical advice to discontinue antidepressants.

A discussion of the role of epistemic injustice in the experiences of patients diagnosed with psychiatric disorders.

A new analysis of the information that the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) publishes for parents about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) concludes that the children’s experiences and contexts are ignored and that medication is presented, misleadingly, as the only solution supported by research evidence.

Sandra Steingard, writing in the journal Psychiatric Services, reviews a recent article finding that the quality of the therapeutic relationship impacts the efficacy of medication treatment.

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

A new article reviews studies in the field of nutritional psychiatry and how nutrition can prevent and treat mental health issues.

Study explores the emotional and embodied experience of individuals undergoing a first crisis in psychosis.