Dispute as McGorry complaint dismissed The Australian by Stuart Rintoul September 30, 2011 A complaint against former Australian of the Year Patrick McGorry for planning a trial of drugs on children has been dismissed. But the 13 international health experts who lodged the complaint with the ethics committee at Melbourne Health calling for the trial […]
Jazmo commented on this Medscape presentation by Dr. Lieberman, Chairman of Psychiatry at Columbia. Dr. Lieberman begins with a lament: Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Lab: How Far Off Are We? Medscape News by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD 09/28/2011 …we anticipated that this iteration of the DSM would incorporate biological markers and laboratory-based test results to […]
In looking into Latuda®, I kept running across this ad [refresh your browser to repeat the change]. I couldn’t quite figure out what it was saying. It’s a before [left] and after [right]: You get your color back? your smile back? your Mom back? But you’re still fragmented? Wait, your hair part changes sides too? […]
Some echos just keep on reverberating, maybe until the end of days. I reckon the Atypicals are iterating towards becoming the Typicals, at least from the perspective of the F.D.A. [so much for there being a rule about there being a need before a new drug is introduced to the market]. But in psychopharmacology, making […]
Lurasidone in the treatment of schizophrenia: a randomized, double-blind, placebo- and olanzapine-controlled study. by Meltzer HY, Cucchiaro J, Silva R, Ogasa M, Phillips D, Xu J, Kalali AH, Schweizer E, Pikalov A, and Loebel A. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2011 168(9):957-67. Objective: The study was designed to evaluate the short-term efficacy and safety of lurasidone […]
It’s my ‘season’ – ragweed – so I watch this part of the Fall through a window. So my nose around the computer time is increased. In the process of looking into the McGorry Controversy in Australia, I had looked at the criteria he used to select his patients. His criteria were based on the […]
Since I wrote ask them about their lives…, I’ve been trying to remember something. In that case, there was the likelihood that an episode of akisthisia with insomnia and agitation resulting from an SSRI antidepressant was treated as if it were mania, and sentenced this young man to a Bipolar Diagnosis [Depakote + Abilify]. Somewhere […]
Why Psychiatry Is Wonderful Even If DSM 5 Isn’t Psychology Today by Allen J. Frances, M.D. September 23, 2011 I recently experienced the odd coincidence of receiving two separate emails on the same morning each asking almost the very same question- how can I remain so high on psychiatry while at the same time being […]
The McGorry-Hickie reform controversy: Why has mental health become so political? Left Flank by Dr_Tad September 24, 2011 Yesterday one of Australia’s most prominent psychiatrists, Professor Ian Hickie, wrote an op-ed piece in the SMH titled, “Ignore the critics, public need to back fresh start in mental healthcare”. It is part of a growing controversy […]
Can my friend call you to talk about her son? They’re wanting to put him on a drug he’s been addicted to. He is in his mid twenties. He had always been a sensitive, mopey child – anxious and easily hurt. In high school, he’d gotten into drugs which escalated in and beyond college and […]