antidepressants

Professor John Read: Antidepressants & Withdrawal Research

Author: Editorial 21st September 2022 0 Comments

The video below features a conversation with Dr. John Read, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London. He has published over 180 research papers, primarily on the relationship between adverse life events and psychosis. He also researches…
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antidepressants, drug withdrawal symptoms, John Read, Research, videos

Drug Info: Adults: Antidepressants

Author: Editorial 19th September 2022 0 Comments

This information sheet comes from Mad in America. It begins: “This page is about antidepressants as a treatment for depression. It provides a review of the evidence for their short-term use, their adverse effects, and their impact on long-term outcomes. The primary…
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Personal Perspective on the Systematic Review of Serotonin Imbalance Hypothesis for depression and Mechanism of Action for Antidepressants

Author: Editorial 12th September 2022 0 Comments

This interview with Dr. Mark Horowitz is conducted by Fauzia Khan and has been published in The Physician. The abstract says: “Fauzia Khan meets Dr Mark Horowitz, Trainee Psychiatrist and Clinical Research Fellow in the NHS. Mark talks about his journey…
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antidepressants, chemical imbalance theory, depression, Fauzia Khan, Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Horowitz, psychiatry, Research, SSRIs, The Physician

This Teen Was Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She’s Not Alone

Author: Editorial 29th August 2022 0 Comments

“Increasingly, anxious and depressed teens are using multiple, powerful psychiatric drugs, many of them untested in adolescents or for use in tandem.” This article by Matt Richtel has been published in the New York Times. It begins: “One morning in the…
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antidepressants, children and adolescents, Matt Richtel, New York Times, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Renae Smith

Diagnosing Long-Term Sexual Dysfunction from SSRIs

Author: Editorial 26th August 2022 0 Comments

This article by Christopher Lane has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “With more than 13.2 percent of the adult U.S. population monthly filling prescriptions for SSRI antidepressants , a figure involving at least 45 million Americans, it is disconcerting to…
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antidepressants, Christopher Lane, psychiatry, Psychology Today, sexual dysfunction, SSRIs

Why women are being given boxing gloves and ballet shoes instead of antidepressants

Author: Editorial 15th August 2022 0 Comments

Subtitled “With one in five people taking pills for their mental health, doctors are turning to alternative methods – with help from Sport England”, this report from Miranda has been published in the Daily Telegraph. It begins: “It’s long been known…
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antidepressants, ballet, boxing, Daily Telegraph, depression, exercise, Miranda Levy, social prescribing, Sport England, women, yoga

How to take the news that depression has not been shown to be caused by a chemical imbalance

Author: Editorial 27th July 2022 0 Comments

This article is from psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Moncrieff. It begins: “For decades people have been told that depression is caused by a serotonin deficiency. This was the rationale behind the introduction of the SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) antidepressants in the…
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antidepressants, chemical imbalance theory, depression, Joanna Moncrieff, Molecular Psychiatry, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, serotonin, tapering

A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression

Author: Editorial 25th July 2022 0 Comments

This article by Christopher Lane has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “Almost as soon as it was floated in 1965 by Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Schildkraut, the serotonin hypothesis of depression —reduced and simplified by pharma marketing to the ‘chemical imbalance’…
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antidepressants, chemical imbalance theory, depression, Joanna Moncrieff, Jonathan Leo, Mark Horowitz, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, Psychology Today, serotonin

What Is the Importance of Nassir Ghaemi’s Conclusion that Psychiatric Drugs Do Not Provide a Long-term Benefit?

Author: Editorial 27th June 2022 0 Comments

“… [Nassir] Ghaemi, a professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medical School, concluded that psychiatric drugs, except for lithium, do not provide a long-term benefit and thus should mostly be prescribed for short-term relief of symptoms.“ This article by Robert Whitaker has…
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antidepressants, antipsychotics, depression, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, lithium, Mad in America, Nassir Ghaemi, placebo effect, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, schizophrenia

Ethical issues in psychopharmacology

Author: Editorial 13th June 2022 0 Comments

This paper by L. McHenry has been published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. The abstract says: “The marketing of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the psychopharmacological industry presents a serious moral problem for the corporate model of medicine. In this…
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antidepressants, ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, L. McHenry, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, psychopharmacology, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRI, SSRIs

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