I’ve been trying to find a way to see the double entry of the Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome [outright skullduggery…] as some kind of publication error [a corrigendum as they like to call it]. But I can’t make that work. The two different definitions are indexed in the back of the book and appear to be […]
Dr. Allen Frances’ service in vetting the DSM-5 while it was under construction is well known to all of us. And if you’ve had any dealings with him, you know that while he’s persistent, he’s also a very kind man. He fought hard to keep the DSM-5 from running completely off the tracks, but didn’t […]
What’s a "black box"? It can be a machine, or a piece of computer code, some body function, anything that does something – turns an input of some kind into an output of some other kind. The term is used when we either don’t know or don’t care how it does it. For most, the […]
Glaxo Sparks Fury Over Sign-On Bonus Demand Sky News By Mark Kleinman 28 November 2013 GlaxoSmithKline [GSK], Britain’s biggest drugs company, has sparked fury among some of its biggest suppliers by demanding ‘bonus’ payments to continue working with the group. Sky News understands that GSK has asked hundreds of marketing services agencies to agree to […]
If I’m not a cardiologist and only an Internist in memory, why does this Statin thing get my juices flowing so [an exempler…, but I should’ve…, risk benefit ratio…]? I know there are people who are going to take Statins for the same reason a lot of people go to church ["just in case"]. I […]
Happy Thanksgiving
I think, by nature, I might be an idealist – someone who thinks that right will prevail sooner or later. I never really thought that, but it seems to be true. Watching what happened in psychiatry in the 80s didn’t fit for me personally, but I thought things would strike a balance sooner or later. […]
I sort of stepped out of my usual box talking about the Statins [and here I go again]. They are a bit like many of our psychiatric drugs in that they’re optional, but they differ in that they’re focused on a measurable biologic marker [serum lipids]. In an exempler…, I talked about objecting to massive […]
Failure to Report Financial Disclosure Information ONLINE FIRST by Robert D. Gibbons, PhD; David J. Weiss, PhD; Paul A. Pilkonis, PhD; Ellen Frank, PhD; and David J. Kupfer, MD JAMA Psychiatry. Published online November 20, 2013. To the Editor We apologize to the editors and readers of JAMA Psychiatry for our failure to fully disclose our financial interests in an article that reported a diagnostic tool, […]