{"id":44482,"date":"2014-03-03T23:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T04:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=44482"},"modified":"2014-03-04T00:25:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T05:25:45","slug":"ludicrous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/03\/ludicrous\/","title":{"rendered":"ludicrous!&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">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 &#8211; people on Senator Grassley&#8217;s unreported income list, various other KOLs, etc. Some are still there. Alan Schatzberg is reporting on iSPOT and doing a Recent Advances in Antidepressants gig. Biederman&#8217;s got something about Bipolar Children and ADHD. Nemeroff, Keller, Rush, Wagner, DeBello, are not there so far. But then I scanned for Dr. Kupfer, a new addition to my watch list. No, he&#8217;s not talking about the DSM-5, but look what is on the roster in the <a href=\"http:\/\/psychnews.org\/pdfs\/preliminary_program_2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary program<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/psychnews.org\/pdfs\/preliminary_program_2014.pdf#page=18\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"249\" border=\"0\" height=\"222\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/cat-apa.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Unless you&#8217;ve landed on this blog by mistake, you&#8217;ll immediately know the significance of this presentation. The Computerized Adaptive Testing [CAT] tests have been introduced in a series of articles over the last year and a half:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"middle\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/archpsyc.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=1389370\">Development of a computerized adaptive test for depression<\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">by Gibbons, Weiss, Pilkonis, Frank, Moore, Kim, and Kupfer.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">Archives of General Psychiatry. 2012 69[11]:1104-12.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"middle\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23945443\">The Computerized   Adaptive Diagnostic Test for Major Depressive Disorder [CAD-MDD]: A Screening Tool for Depression<\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">by Gibbons, Hooker, Finkelman, Weiss, Pilkonis, Frank, Moore, and Kupfer.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2013 74[7]:669&ndash;674.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"middle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ajp.psychiatryonline.org\/article.aspx?articleID=1725889\" target=\"_blank\">Development of the CAT-ANX: A Computerized Adaptive Test for Anxiety<\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">by Gibbons, Weiss, Pilkonis, Frank, Moore, Kim, and Kupfer.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">American Journal of Psychiatry. published on-line Aug 9, 2013<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">They were developed between 2002 and 2010 by Dr. Gibbons working on an NIMH Grant <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/projectreporter.nih.gov\/project_info_history.cfm?aid=6521919&#038;icde=18919421\">COMPUTERIZED ADAPTIVE TESTING &ndash; DEPRESSION INVENTORY<\/a> [NIMH Project MH066302]. At the beginning of 2012, a company, <a href=\"http:\/\/psychiatricassessments.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Psychiatric Adaptive Technologies<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptivetestingtechnologies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adaptive Testing Technologies<\/a> was incorporated in Delaware and Illinois with shareholders Drs. Gibbons, Weiss, Pilkonis, Frank, and Kupfer. At the time, Dr. Kupfer was Chairman of the DSM-5 Task Force and his wife, Ellen Frank, was a group member of the Task Force. Drs. Gibbons and Pilkonis were consultants. In addition, Dr. Kupfer had been an active proponent of adding &quot;Dimensional&quot; parameters to the DSM-5 [the kinds of things these tests measure]. In that first paper, this Conflict of Interest was not declared, and after it was exposed, they apologized but did not explain the ommission:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"middle\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/archpsyc.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleID=1780020\">Failure to Report Financial Disclosure Information<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">by Gibbons, Weiss, Pilkonis, Frank, and Kupfer.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">JAMA Psychiatry. 2013 71[1]:95. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">A timeline is <a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/21\/open-letter-to-the-apa\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and a letter from the Speaker of the APA  Assembly is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psych.org\/File%20Library\/Advocacy%20and%20Newsroom\/Letter-to-Assembly-20140114.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. I&#8217;ve talked about it until I&#8217;m blue in the face [<a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/01\/credibility-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">credibility&hellip;         <\/a>]. There&#8217;s such a blurring of commercial and academic boundaries in this story that it&#8217;s almost impossible to keep up with the twists and turns. Dr. Gibbons developed these tests in an academic institution funded by the NIMH. Then he formed a commercial company with his co-authors to market the tests. Then he and his group, including Dr. Kupfer, Chairman of the APA&#8217;s DSM-5 Task Force, published their results in three journals [pretty good advertisement]. After the obvious COI was exposed [undeclared in the first article], they didn&#8217;t miss a beat. Dr. Gibbons already has another grant [NIMH Project MH100155] to develop more of these tests, this time for kids [<a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/19\/what-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">what!&hellip;<\/a>]. Dr. Kupfer continues to omit his financial interest in this enterprise in his COI disclosures [<a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/11\/its-proper-place\/\" target=\"_blank\">its proper place&hellip;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/wp-admin\/comment.php?action=editcomment&#038;c=254993\" target=\"_blank\">comment<\/a>]. And now the APA Annual Meeting becomes yet another forum to advertise their product in what is intended to be an educational setting as <strong><font color=\"#200020\">The Future of Psychiatric Measurement<\/font><\/strong>. Surely someone at the APA will notice [<a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/01\/credibility-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">credibility&hellip;<\/a>]. Totally ludicrous!&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; people on Senator Grassley&#8217;s unreported income list, various other KOLs, etc. Some are still there. Alan Schatzberg is reporting on iSPOT and doing a Recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44482"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44497,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44482\/revisions\/44497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}