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APA Should Delay Publication Of DSM-5 Pschiatric Times By Allen Frances, MD January 31, 2012 My three criticisms of DSM-5 have been: risky suggestions; bad writing; poor planning and disorganization. I have pretty much failed to have any real impact other than perhaps getting APA to delay publication from May 2012 to May 2013. The […]
Balancing Immediate Needs with Future Innovation NIMH Director’s Blog by Thomas Insel January 26, 2012 NIMH, like all Institutes at NIH, has an advisory council that meets three times each year. The National Advisory Mental Health Council [NAMHC] is a distinguished group of scientists, advocates, clinicians, and policy experts. Each of our meetings includes a […]
Childhood Schizophrenia is an uncommon disorder – little studied except on a case by case basis. But following the CATIE, CUtLASS, and European Schizophrenia Trials comparing the first generation antipsychotics to the atypicals, the NIMH did a similar study in children. Double-Blind Comparison of First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics in Early-Onset Schizophrenia and Schizo-affective Disorder: Findings […]
I don’t know Dr. David Healy [before that became cool!…] except from a few things on the Internet [like his trial testimony] and reading his book, Let Them Eat Prozac [Amazon 2004]. That book followed The Antidepressant Era [Amazon 1999] and The Creation of Psychopharmacology [Amazon 2002]. There have been many others, but these are […]
… for the first ever 1boringoldman film recommendation: Hugo…
While it’s tempting to be sarcastic about these two winter CME programs coming from the hallowed halls of ivy, there’s nothing humorous about this story. Over half of Senator Grassley’s list of payola non-reporters, several from Paul Thacker’s POGO expose of ghost-writing, the alumni from the Pediatric Bipolar debacle, three recently censured by Harvard itself, […]
I’m in something of a cul-de-sac and I don’t see any way out other than to explore the territory. At least I know how I got here. It was those Call-Notes from the Janssen Trial in Texas. I went there understanding how I felt about what Janssen had done, but I wanted to hear about […]
I know that transcripts from a trial are tedious, and more or less, I’m likely preaching to the choir when it comes to the misbehavior at Janssen with Risperdal. But there’s one part that struck me particularly hard listening to the testimony. It began during the testimony of Arnold Friede, the Plaintiff’s expert witness in […]
Public Health Systems and Reimbursement doesn’t just roll off the tongue. I guess that’s why they said "P·H·S·and·R" instead. And when I was at the trial, I never quite connected that it was a Department at Janssen. So when Laurie Snyder was deposed and said she was a "Public Health Systems & Reimbursement manager," it […]