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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

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One is on conflicts of interest in medicine broadly, looking at influential information sources that are used by physicians and other healthcare providers. What’s unique to this study, even though in many ways it’s a replication of our previous work, was that we were able to use the Open Payments database which started in 2014.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’ Both outcomes are problematic.