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The Dangers of Precision Medicine: Mental Health Is Not a Battlefield

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Hailed as the future of mental health care, it conjures images of medical interventions as carefully planned and executed military operations, striking with lethal accuracy at the heart of mental suffering while minimising collateral damage. Photo by A.T.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he introduces the book. healthcare, primarily “everyday” healthcare. I expanded my review of research to include non-psychiatric health problems and my 22-year review of the health outcome research has culminated in this book. as in a Ph.D.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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During 2024, we published 155 blogs , 244 reviews of scientific findings , 43 personal stories and 41 MIA reports , of which 22 were podcast interviews. Here we highlight the top ten of Mad in Americas most-read blogs and personal stories of 2024. Subscribers get free access to all Mad in America content and webinar events.

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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

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Unbalanced, for instance, in the sense that much emphasis is placed on brain and genetic studies that to this day have cost billions of dollars, while showing only very small associations—not providing any basis for biological screening. Genetic studies are also the cause of many misunderstandings.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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In this last blog in the series, he presents his concluding thoughts and suggestions for the future of psychiatry. In the protocol for my study, I noted that the textbooks should mention that the causes of psychiatric disorders are mainly environmental, and not genetic or related to a visible brain abnormality. 695 This is sickening.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 2)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses the scientific literature on antidepressant efficacy and FDA approval. An effect size is a statistical term reflecting (in healthcare) the power of any treatment versus placebo, and the larger the effect size, the more effective the treatment. The post Much of U.S.

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From Anxiety to Advocacy: How Pharmacogenomic Testing Helped My Mental Health Journey

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” The thought of waiting for results terrified meI was in a bad place mentally and didnt have time to wait and deal with medication trial and error. PGx tests analyze your DNA for genetic variants that may impact how your body metabolizes or responds to certain medications. My platform is mental health.