The International Study to Predict Optimized Treatment in Depression [iSPOT-D]: Outcomes from the acute phase of antidepressant treatment by Saveanu R, Etkin A, Duchemin AM, Goldstein-Piekarski A, Gyurak A, Debattista C, Schatzberg AF, Sood S, Day CV, Palmer DM, Rekshan WR, Gordon E, Rush AJ, Williams LM. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2015 61:1-12. We aimed […]
The International Study to Predict Optimized Treatment in Depression [iSPOT-D]: Outcomes from the acute phase of antidepressant treatment by Saveanu R, Etkin A, Duchemin AM, Goldstein-Piekarski A, Gyurak A, Debattista C, Schatzberg AF, Sood S, Day CV, Palmer DM, Rekshan WR, Gordon E, Rush AJ, Williams LM. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2015 61:1-12. We aimed […]
My first thumbing through the DSM-III in 1980 landed me in Major Depressive Disorder [MDD], and it’s where I’ve remained. I’ve written about it enough here to thoroughly earn my 1boringoldman moniker [see a mistake…, further thoughts on the mistake…, and yet another mistake… for just one version]. In their zeal to bring psychiatric classification […]
Will I ever let an article about retroactive Data Transparency pass without commenting on it? I kind of doubt it, at least for the present. It’s the arguments pro and con that have my attention at the moment. The current focus is on patient privacy and consent forms. There’s something very wrong with the way […]
I just read George Dawson’s excellent advice to psychiatry residents on Real Psychiatry [Advice To Residents and Advice To Residents – continued]. As a former residency director, I can say that, as usual, he’s right on the mark. There are some things I might add or come at from a different angle, but just editorial […]
Alabama Psychiatric Services to close this month, thousands of patients impacted statewide WHNT News 19 at 5:00 p.m. by David Kumbroch February 4, 2015 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. [WHNT] – Alabama Psychiatric Services confirms it will end services on February 13, 2015. It cites a decrease in funding from Blue Cross/Blue Shield and a change in how the […]
Institute for Safe Medication Practices QuarterWatch Monitoring FDA MedWatch Reports A CRITIQUE OF A KEY DRUG SAFETY REPORTING SYSTEM January 28, 2015 Executive Summary The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Adverse Event Reporting System [FAERS] — based on MedWatch reports – is the government’s primary safety surveillance system designed to identify harms from therapeutic drugs. […]
I first heard that PHARMA was shutting down its CNS drug development when I read Stephen Stahl let loose with a rant heard far and wide in August 2011 [see myopia – uncorrected…]. So I thought it was ironic that a few days later, I read in the American Journal of Psychiatry about a new […]
1boringoldman Continuing Medical Education Syllabus UNIT I: the breakthrough 1. 09/28/14: Girls under stress age more rapidly, new Stanford study reveals 2. 09/30/14: Telomere length and cortisol reactivity in children of depressed mothers 3. 10/23/14: NIMH Director’s Blog: Depression, Daughters, and Cellular Aging 4. 11/24/14: Are healthy girls affected physically by their mothers’ depression? UNIT […]