March 16, 2015 In Wake of Report on University of Minnesota’s Apparent Failure to Adequately Protect Human Research Subjects, Public Citizen Calls for Investigation System for Protecting Human Subjects Appears to Have Serious, Systemic Failures; Accreditation Should Be Rescinded WASHINGTON, D.C. – Public Citizen today called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ […]
The Future of Psychiatry as Clinical Neuroscience: Why Not Now? JAMA: Psychiatry Viewpoint by David A. Ross, MD, PhD; Michael J. Travis, MD; and Melissa R. Arbuckle, MD, PhD Published online March 11, 2015. In 2012, Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wrote an essay entitled The Future of Psychiatry ( = Clinical Neuroscience), echoing a familiar trope in […]
Farewell to “Molecules to Medicine” on SciAm Scientific American By Judy Stone December 15, 2014 … Thanks, too, to the SciAm editors for having allowed me to post on topics that I was passionate about, including the problems of rural hospitals and research ethics and, in particular, having supported my series on the ethical lapses […]
In the case of Dan Markingson at the University of Minnesots, you might recall that in spite of the university senate voting to have that case investigated, the President ordered only an investigation of the research program "looking forward", not the case itself [too deep to ignore…]. I guess we thought that the University President […]
I was pleased to get responses to that old feeling… and impossibility…. In the end, Medicine and Psychiatry are clinical sciences and these are the kinds of topics we need to hear about and pass on – a withdrawal syndrome and a not so benign treatment. This morning, this was in my email in-box, and […]
As the comments rolled in on the post about the British Psychological Society‘s Report [back to the drawing board…], my mind was wandering. I was thinking about how similar the topics of contention sounded to the ones I heard 40 years ago when I arrived. Then I clicked on PsychiatricNews, and this article [from the […]
Withdrawal Symptoms after Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Discontinuation: A Systematic Review by Giovanni A. Fava, Alessia Gatti, Carlotta Belaise, Jenny Guidi, and Emanuela Offidani Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 2015 84:72-81. [full text on-line] [supplementary material] Background: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors [SSRI] are widely used in medical practice. They have been associated with a broad range of […]
Note: This post isn’t like most of my others. I’m not in the habit of simply saying what I think without documentation, or in areas this far outside of my area of expertise. But I’ve got a really strong feeling here. Take it for what it’s worth – just a strongly felt, definitively stated, but […]