NIH names Dr. Joshua Gordon director of the National Institute of Mental Health National Institute of Health July 28, 2016 National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., announced today the selection of Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., as director of the National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]. Dr. Gordon is expected to […]
At this summer’s American Psychiatric Association meeting, Karen Dineen Wagner, president elect of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry discussed the treatment of depressed children and adolescents, saying: …only two drugs are approved for use in youth by the Food and Drug Administration [FDA]: fluoxetine for ages 8 to 17 and escitalopram for […]
Note: I am pleased to announce that Google has moved me from This site may have been hacked to This site is not mobile friendly status. I see this as a real step up in the world and will look into the mobile friendly issue the next time I’ve got nothing else to do. I […]
So Charlie Chaplin tried to warn us about technology in his 1936 classic, Modern Times. The french philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merlau-Ponty even named their journal, Les Temps modernes, after the film. But neither Chaplin nor the Existentialists warned us about this… While the site was operating normally, this message appeared […]
"Another issue with pediatric clinical trials is that 61 percent of youth respond to the drugs, but 50 percent respond to placebo, compared with 30 percent among adults, making it hard to separate effects." Karen Dineen Wagner in Child Psychiatrists Look at Specialty From Both Macro, Micro Perspectives The Placebo Effect in Clinical Trials is […]
early days… Practicing as an Internist in a Military Hospital back when the world was young, fresh out of a residency training program, I had a period I think of as on-the-job training. I learned that the majority of patients referred to me as an Internist didn’t have medical diseases. They had some kind of […]
After reading Karen Dineen Wagner’s 2013 deposition [author·ity…], I looked back at that recent PSYCHIATRICNEWS article about her presentation at the May APA meeting [see a blast from the past…]. This time through, there were several things about it that got my attention. So here it is again for review: Child Psychiatrists Look at Specialty […]
Being deposed in a legal case is one of the more odious experiences of adult life. The lawyer asking the questions has pored over whatever you’re there to talk about looking for ways to discredit you, then hammers away trying to get you to admit your sins [whether you’ve committed them or not]. No one […]
A review of the streams: a preference for case studies the consequences of the DSM-III unitary depression being questioned about focusing on "old studies" Peter Kramer’s snappy response to Ed Shorter’s review … and then the thread about Lewis, Kiloh, and Parker on Lewis’ cases Based on his MD Thesis cases, Aubrey Lewis couldn’t confirm […]
Leslie Kiloh [1917-1997] was a British psychiatrist, well known for his studies in the classification of depressive disorders and the EEG. In 1962, he became the chair of psychiatry at the new Medical School at the University of New South Wales in Australia – a position he held for 20 years until retiring. He studied […]