Mad in America

JULY 13, 2024

But Ghaemi wants to claim that lithium is special—that it does more than target symptom mechanisms, it modifies the disease process that underpins bipolar disorder. 2004) and Diamond et al. Ghaemi thinks glutamate is the culprit in schizophrenia, however, which is unaffected by antipsychotics ( Ghaemi, 2022 ).

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

In our 2015 book Psychiatry Under the Influence , Lisa Cosgrove and I wrote about the STAR*D scandal in depth, as it served as an example of the institutional corruption in psychiatry due to pharmaceutical interests and psychiatrys own guild interests. The 12 STAR*D authors listed a collective total of 151 ties to pharmaceutical companies.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. In 2004, the evidence that pretty well the entire pediatric antidepressant literature was fake, with GSK sued for fraud, caused Cochrane problems. Since 2004, they have been telling us to report adverse effects to the FDA and not to them. Just the opposite.

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