In case it’s not apparent, I’m trying to get my remaining thoughts about the DSM-5 said, so as to put it away and move on in the New Year. I’ll think I’m done with it, then I’ll read something like the recent Washington Post article, and it gets me all stirred up again [see Howard […]
1980 wasn’t just the year that the DSM-III was released, there were lots of other things happening around that time – Ronald Reagan was elected, the IBM PC was released, CNN was launched, the first Star Wars movie, Kim Kardashian’s birth year, John Lennon was murdered, Visicalc was introduced. Visicalc? It was the first spreadsheet […]
Back in 2002, I wasn’t paying any attention to DSM-5 DSM-V, so I missed their opening gambit. The DSM-III of 1980 was unique in that it was the vehicle for a changes that went far beyond the assigned task. Apparently, the DSM-5 Task Force wanted to make a similar leap. Whereas the DSM-III moved us […]
The recent article in the Washington Post deserves reading, but you probably know everything it has to say. Here’s a simple point: Antidepressants to treat grief? Psychiatry panelists with ties to drug industry say yes Washington Post with Bloomberg By Peter Whoriskey December 26, 2012 It was a simple experiment in healing the bereaved: Twenty-two […]
I wasn’t satisfied with the timeline on that last post [the lesson of Study 329: an unfinished symphony…]. It didn’t capture the story in context. Here’s how it actually went. The Study 329 article came out in 2001, but the actual dates of the study itself were April 20th, 1994 to May 7th, 1997 [begun […]
No matter how you measure it, the longest night has passed once again without cataclysm, and it looks as if the sun is on its way back for yet another year; and so no matter what you think it means or how you celebrate it, best wishes for the holiday season…
My series earlier this year on Keller et al’s 2001 article about Paxil Study 329 was primarily to get things clear in my own mind, but I was also trying the gather the information in one place to send with my retraction request to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: a movement… to […]
It’s always funny when small children try to play hide-and-go-seek by covering their eyes, but when grown-ups do it, it loses its charm. That’s what Dr. Andres Martin’s has done in his response to Dr. Juriedini’s request that the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry retract the 2001 Study 329 article. […]
Dr. Juriedini’s letter to the JAACAP July 20, 2012 Whose Emperor is Naked? To the Editor: In 2003 we wrote to you1 with an analysis of a paper by Keller et al (2001)2 reporting a clinical trial (Study 329) comparing the use of paroxetine with placebo in major depression in adolescents. Study 329 has […]
Forest Plots are a useful way to display information when multiple items are compared by a single measurement variable – in this case, the DSM-5 Diagnoses [ordinate, y-axis] are compared by the kappa inter-rater reliability variable [abscissa, x-axis] from the DSM-5 Field Trials. These first two plots show the kappa values separated by diagnosis and […]