The 2012 book Drugging Our Children: How Profiteers Are Pushing Antipsychotics on Our Youngest, and What We Can Do to Stop It, is edited by Sharna Olfman PhD, and Brent Dean Robbins, PhD. It is a collection of ten articles, plus an Introduction and an Afterword by Sharna Olfman. Here are the chapter titles,… Continue Reading
Archives for February 2014
Genetic Protection Against Schizophrenia?
On November 12, 2013, Molecular Psychiatry published online Evidence that duplications of 22q11.2 protect against schizophrenia, by Rees et al. The print version was published last month – January 2014. Here’s the authors’ summary: “A number of large, rare copy number variants (CNVs) are deleterious for neurodevelopmental disorders, but large, rare, protective CNVs have not… Continue Reading
Psychiatry Embraces Patient-Centered Care: Dr. Lieberman
On January 29, the APA’s online bulletin Psychiatric News, published Psychiatry Embraces Patient-Centered Care, by Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, and Lisa Dixon, MD. Dr. Lieberman is President of the APA, and chair of psychiatry at Columbia University. Dr. Dixon is a professor of psychiatry at Columbia. Here’s the opening statement: “Psychiatry has long been considered the… Continue Reading
Revitalizing Psychiatric Therapeutics?
In January of this year, Steven Hyman MD, former Director of NIMH and currently a leading psychiatric researcher at MIT and Harvard, published Revitalizing Psychiatric Therapeutics in Neuropsychopharmacology. The article is in the journal’s commentary section and is essentially an opinion piece. Here’s Dr. Hyman’s summary: “Despite high prevalence and enormous unmet medical need, the… Continue Reading