Justifying conflicts of interest in medical journals: a very bad idea by Robert Steinbrook, Jerome P Kassirer, and Marcia Angell British Medical Journal. 2015 350:h2942 [full text online] A series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine has questioned whether the conflict of interest movement has gone too far in its campaign to […]
This afternoon, I found out that Karen Dineen Wagner had been elected President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She will be President Elect [2015-2017], President [2017-2019], and Past President [2019-2021] – all three being positions of active leadership in that organization. I find her nomination and subsequent election hard to fathom. […]
I just closed the comments on the talk that matters… because a tit-for-tat was about to break out. I removed both comments, because that seemed fair. I’ve decided that that’s the only way to deal with such things. It keeps others from commenting for me to close things, but looking back over what happens when […]
It seems to me that President Kaler at the University of Minnesota thinks if he words things just right, people will believe what he says. So he says the same things over and over in a slightly different way and then seems surprised that we all don’t say, "Oh, I see, everything is fine now" […]
Training for the Future NIMH: Director’s Blog by Tom Insel May 15, 2015 …It’s true that most of the neuroscience and genomics findings are not yet actionable for psychiatry. No one doubts that the brain is the organ of affect and behavior, but no one can point to a biomarker that is essential for clinical […]