“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...
Europe Issues Policy on Access to Clinical Trial Data, Criticisms Continue
The European Medicines Agency has announced in a press release its final policies on the open publication of data from clinical trials. Ed Silverman...
Social Environment Moderates the Link Between Family and Psychosis
A study of 4,011 people randomly selected from the population of Izmir, Turkey found that the association between familial liability for severe mental illness and the...
Psychiatric Journals are More Biologically Skewed than Internal Medicine Journals
Researchers from Tufts University (including Nassir Ghaemi) assessed the ratio of "biological" to "non-biological" in both psychiatric journals and journals of internal medicine. Though...
Obstetric Complication, Cannabis Use: Strongest Predictors of Early Psychosis
According to data drawn from 608 patients of an early intervention program in Dublin, presented at the 3rd Biennial Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS)...
Pharma Execs Barred from Federal Programs
Three former executives from Purdue Pharma have been barred by a federal appeals court from doing business with federal healthcare programs such as Medicare...
Senate Amendment Filed to Fight Inappropriate Antipsychotics in Nursing Homes
Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut filed an amendment to the Food and Drug Administration Safety...
Crowdfunding Science
Scientific American explores a crowdfunded approach to researching methamphetamine addiction, suggesting the approach is adaptable to pursuing other questions that are challenged to find...
Fear in Infants Predicts Guilt in Toddlers, Later Psychopathology
Researchers at Cardiff University in Wales find that fear in infants is a predictor of guilt in later life, and write in Development and...
5,012 Englishwomen Poisoned Last Year by Benzos, 8,501 by SSRIs
Addiction Today reports "Attention on illicit drugs has deflected focus from the gigantic scale of harms by legal, prescribed drugs. We give you the...
Risperdal Plaintiffs Ask Judge to Unseal Clinical Studies Data
Attorneys representing about 300 lawsuits alleging that Risperdal causes enlargement of breast tissue in men have asked a Pennsylvania judge to unseal relevant clinical...
Closing Arguments Begin in Arkansas Risperdal Trial
Arkansas is asking for a minimum of $1.2 billion in fines for the 250,000 Risperdal prescriptions issued under its medicaid program. Fletch Trammel, lawyer...
Pharma Prosecutions Begin to Pay for Themselves
In what may prove to be a tipping point for prosecutions against pharmaceutical companies, states are beginning to see their "enforcement efforts pay for...
Self-Understanding is Key for Caregivers
Norwegian and Swedish researchers studied the experiences of 67 parents of children disabilities. They found that enhanced self-understanding and discussion of existential issues was...
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...
Perceived Social Status Impacts Early Psychosis
Writing in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology, London researchers find that perceptions of lower social rank and inferiority amongst 24 individuals with early...
Pa. Court Hears Arguments in Dismissed Risperdal Case
A lawyer for Pennsylvania urged seven justices of the Pa. Commonwealth Court yesterday to allow the state's case against Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary Janssen...
State Of Mind Series Highlights Changes To Vermont Mental Health System
Vermont Public Radio's series State of Mind will explore the ripples through Vermont's mental health system since Tropical Storm Irene washed away the State Hospital. In...
Policy and Staffing are Key to Reducing Seclusion Rates
Dutch researchers examined the belief among psychiatric ward staff that patient characteristics explained the different rates of seclusion observed between facilities. They conclude that...
