Looking at that Charlie Nemeroff Miami Herald newspaper article [which was a review article-equivalent] reminded me of a graph I made in the past but never used. It was still there in my piddle-around subdirectory. It was the one on the bottom. The light green is Dr. Nemeroff’s articles/year. The darker green is the portion that were review articles – one of his specialities. The graph on top is the number of traveling presentations per month he made for GSK promoting Paxil and Lamictal. Look at the period between 2000 and 2005, the time when he was doing all that flying around the country giving psychnet talks. It’s also a period when he was at his publishing peak [it’s marked on the graph]. It’s also when he was Chairman at Emory, and Editor of Neuropsychopharmacology, and so on and so on…
Allow me to say that which cannot be spoken – that’s not possible. At least that’s impossible without a bevy of ghost-writers and guest or honorary authorships. And to take that a step further into the unspeakable, why did the journals publish all of his stuff – the same tepid stuff over and over?
Post-traumatic stress disorder: the neurobiological impact of psychological trauma.
by Sherin JE, Nemeroff CB.
Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2011;13(3):263-78. Review.
by Sherin JE, Nemeroff CB.
Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2011;13(3):263-78. Review.
Neurobiological and psychiatric consequences of child abuse and neglect.
by Heim C, Shugart M, Craighead WE, Nemeroff CB.
Dev Psychobiol. 2010 Nov;52(7):671-90. Review.
by Heim C, Shugart M, Craighead WE, Nemeroff CB.
Dev Psychobiol. 2010 Nov;52(7):671-90. Review.
The neurobiological toll of child abuse and neglect.
by Neigh GN, Gillespie CF, Nemeroff CB.
Trauma Violence Abuse. 2009 Oct;10(4):389-410. Review.
by Neigh GN, Gillespie CF, Nemeroff CB.
Trauma Violence Abuse. 2009 Oct;10(4):389-410. Review.
The link between childhood trauma and depression: insights from HPA axis studies in humans.
by Heim C, Newport DJ, Mletzko T, Miller AH, Nemeroff CB.
Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2008 Jul;33(6):693-710. Review.
by Heim C, Newport DJ, Mletzko T, Miller AH, Nemeroff CB.
Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2008 Jul;33(6):693-710. Review.
Neurobiological consequences of childhood trauma.
by Nemeroff CB.
J Clin Psychiatry. 2004;65 Suppl 1:18-28. Review.
by Nemeroff CB.
J Clin Psychiatry. 2004;65 Suppl 1:18-28. Review.
The role of childhood trauma in the neurobiology of mood and anxiety disorders: preclinical and clinical studies.
by Heim C, Nemeroff CB.
Biol Psychiatry. 2001 Jun 15;49(12):1023-39. Review.
by Heim C, Nemeroff CB.
Biol Psychiatry. 2001 Jun 15;49(12):1023-39. Review.
For that matter, why did the Miami Herald publish that article? Or why did Emory University put up with an absent Chairman for so long – too busy moonlighting to actually do what chairmen do? And why did the faculty itself allow him that kind of latitude? Why did Pascal Goldschmidt hire Nemeroff at Miami? Why did the NIMH give him a $2 M Grant for a dead end study?
None of that makes a bit of sense. None of it…
http://chronicle.com/article/While-Revising-Ethics-Rules/65800/
“A yearlong effort by the National Institutes of Health to toughen its policies against financial conflicts of interest was led by an administrator who quietly helped one of the most prominent transgressors get hired by the University of Miami after a decade of undisclosed corporate payments led to his departure from Emory University, a Chronicle investigation has found.
The administrator, Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, also encouraged the researcher, Charles B. Nemeroff, to apply for new NIH grants, even though Emory had agreed on its own to restrict Dr. Nemeroff from NIH grant eligibility for two years. The NIH also allowed Dr. Nemeroff uninterrupted eligibility to serve on NIH advisory panels that help decide who receives NIH grant money….”
Alto,
Absolutely on target. Whatever the reason, it has to stop. Insel has to be a part of this. There’s no other option, actually. His claims of passivity are no excuse. Grassley’s all busy today. Maybe he’ll get to this tomorrow.
Loved your post and the answer to your many “why” questions is clearly: MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. That’s the one and only answer. Probably will get sued for libel myself, but watching the Sandusky trial unfold and hearing how he “groomed” his victims, makes me think of the posting of how Nemeroff got other professionals indebted to him for payback down the line. It’s all just disgusting.
Here are some internal documents to add to this discussion http://dida.library.ucsf.edu/search?query=cs%3Asenate*&ct=11&l=1 I say it’s always “follow the money”, and apparently, Nemeroff is Teflon slick, from any fall out of all of this.
Nemeroff
The gift that keeps on givin’
Duane
The top graph displays only the talks he gave for one company… there were many, many more for other companies, not to mention all the advisory committee meetings. At one time there was talk that Nemeroff’s staff assistant would meet him at the airport to hand over a suitcase with fresh clothes and to take the used suitcase to his home. We have no trouble believing that it could have happened. There ought to be a new DSM-5 term for this kind of unrestrained behavior.