Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Hospitality Technology 142

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In summary, researchers have found no serotonin nor any other neurotransmitter association with depression, no neurobiological associations, and no genetic associations. They justify this with the 2006 reported results of the NIMH-funded “ Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D).

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Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

Mad in America has previously examined the problems with conflicts of interest in research but this time we extend that to look at the potential effect of COIs on diagnostic tools such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). I’d like to think that maybe our 2006 study had a small role to play in that.

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Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Legal 144

Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

R ay Moynihan is an accomplished health journalist and author who has won several awards for his work. Moynihan’s research and writing focus on the healthcare industry, with an emphasis on how diseases are created, branded, and marketed to unsuspecting people. This applies in the mental illness world and everywhere in medicine.

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Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Healthcare Neurotransmitters and mental health 145