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Seriously Misleading Testimony by Psychiatry Professor in Oslo District Court About the Effect of Antipsychotics

Mad in America

The 2017 meta-analysis by Zhu et al. The 2017 meta-analysis by Leucht et al. The authors of the 2017 Leucht meta-analysis said, with reference to the 1964 study, that 61% versus 22% of patients were much improved, which appear nowhere in the cited article. Johnsen’s claim of an effect of 20% in 80% of the patients is invalid.

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Letter from the Newsletter Editor, July 2017

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

Educate young scientists and clinicians about the biological underpinnings of psychiatric disorders. Foster development of investigators in psychiatry. Goal : Convert current young investigator and mentoring programs into a more deliberate developmental pipeline across the career lifespan. If you are not a member, please join!

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How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality

Mad in America

Insel left NIMH to lead the mental health team at Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences); then in 2017, co-founded Mindstrong Health, where he promoted digital phenotyping (which, for example, includes the monitoring of patient smartphone text messages to gauge mental illness). “I Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Leigh, Mother of Melissa

Mad in America

After Mel passed [in 2017], a woman who was the coordinator of student affairs at her high school sent me a note acknowledging that Mel would have made a big mark in the world. He spent four years in a mental hospital and now devotes his life to educating people about the dangers of antidepressants. At least that is what she told me.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

What we need more than anything else in psychiatry are withdrawal clinics, with easy and quick access free of charge, and education about the harmful effects of psychiatric drugs, how to stop them, and above all: How to avoid starting them. 281,610 It is important to be familiar with these issues.

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Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 2: Rational Approaches to Recovery

Mad in America

Calming It Down In 2017, I began seeing the new psychiatrist, Dr. B, and he followed the clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for treating drug-induced movement disorders by prescribing a beta-blocker and then later, a centrally acting alpha agonist, or Alpha-1, also an antihypertensive. If and when something helped, it never lasted.

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When One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

By adopting a more nuanced, context-aware approach to their research, scientists can more precisely target certain clinical treatments, behavioral and educational interventions, and policies to maximum effect. In a forthcoming article for Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science , education researchers Paul T.