If you go to the Department of Population Medicine website, the home of Christine Lu, MSc, PhD, first author of the article in my last post [a madness to our method…], you’ll notice two logos. One is the familiar Harvard Medical School logo [currently featuring Unintended Danger from Antidepressant Warnings], the other is something called […]
Changes in antidepressant use by young people and suicidal behavior after FDA warnings and media coverage: quasi-experimental study by Christine Y Lu, Fang Zhang, Matthew D Lakoma, Jeanne M Madden, Donna Rusinak, Robert B Penfold, Gregory Simon, Brian K Ahmedani, Gregory Clarke, Enid M Hunkeler, Beth Waitzfelder, Ashli Owen-Smith, Marsha A Raebel, Rebecca Rossom, Karen […]
on Psycritic: On Integrated Mental Health Care on Mad in America: The End of Psychiatry on PsychPractice: APA-thetic on Real Psychiatry: The Model of Psychiatric Care for the Future, Collaborative Care Model – Even Worse Than I Imagined The blogs above are ones I have nothing but respect for. They are all psychiatrists, but have […]
A Misfortune Not a Crime Director’s Blog: NIMH By Thomas Insel April 11, 2014 … check out a new report from the Treatment Advocacy Center on the treatment of people with serious mental illness. According to this report, there are now 10 times more people with serious mental illness in state prisons [207,000] and county […]
It’s been over a hundred years since Freud suggested that our wishes can color the workings of what he called the mental apparatus. Think what you will about the old guy, but he was onto something with that wish thing. Here are three personal examples: In my last post [reason enough…], I interpreted the theme […]
In October 2012, I first read the article below and blogged about it [speaking of forests…]. That was before the Board of Trustees of the APA met in December and finalized what was going to be included in the DSM-5. While this article was published in print after the DSM-5 was already on its way […]
I guess I can take down the crossed fingers about the Open Letter to the APA concerning the Affaire d’Kupfer [see credibility…]. The Board of Trustees met three weeks ago and there hasn’t been a peep that I know about. After all the questions about conflicts of interest among members of the DSM-5 Task Force […]
Psychiatry as a Clinical Neuroscience Discipline by Thomas R. Insel, MD and Remi Quirion, Ph.D, FRSC, CQ JAMA. 2005 294: 2221–2224. [full text on-line] In this commentary, we argue that psychiatry’s impact on public health will require that mental disorders be understood and treated as brain disorders. One of the fundamental insights emerging from contemporary […]
My first encounter with the work of Dr. Robert Gibbons, a statistician and the University of Chicago, was a couple of articles in which he challenged the Black Box warning on antidepressants for adolescents – declaring them both safe and effective. His analysis was based on a private, unavailable dataset. Besides the unavailability of the […]
I have a bit of a hobby over the last several years. When the APA Annual Meeting program comes out, I scan it for names from the old guard – people on Senator Grassley’s unreported income list, various other KOLs, etc. Some are still there. Alan Schatzberg is reporting on iSPOT and doing a Recent […]