antidepressants

NHS Data: 41% Rise in Antidepressant Prescribing to Children Aged 5-12 Since 2015

Author: Editorial 20th May 2022 0 Comments

This report comes from Mad in America. It begins: “From The Pharmaceutical Journal: ‘NHS data obtained via a freedom of information request, provided on 10 August 2021, show a steady increase over the past six years in the number of unique…
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antidepressants, children and adolescents, Kirsten Shukla, Mad in America, NHS, psychiatry, The Pharmaceutical Journal

Psychedelic frees up depressed brain, study shows

Author: Editorial 13th May 2022 0 Comments

Philippa Roxby reports for the BBC: “Psilocybin, a drug found in magic mushrooms, appears to free up the brains of people with severe depression in a way that other antidepressants do not, a study has found. The results, based on brain…
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antidepressants, BBC, Centre for Psychedelic Research, David Nutt, depression, Imperial College London, Nature Medicine, neuroscience, Philippa Roxby, psilocybin, Research

Is the chemical imbalance an ‘urban legend’? An exploration of the status of the serotonin theory of depression in the scientific literature

Author: Editorial 28th April 2022 0 Comments

This study/article by Benjamin Anga, MarkHorowitz and Joanna Moncrieff has been published in ScienceDirect. The abstract says: “The theory that depression is caused by a serotonin abnormality or other chemical imbalance has become widely accepted by the public and is one…
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antidepressants, Benjamin Anga, chemical imbalance theory, depression, Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Horowitz, ScienceDirect, serotonin

Primum non nocere: an evolutionary analysis of whether antidepressants do more harm than good

Author: Editorial 20th April 2022 0 Comments

This review has been published on the PubMed website. The abstract says: “Antidepressant medications are the first-line treatment for people meeting current diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder. Most antidepressants are designed to perturb the mechanisms that regulate the neurotransmitter serotonin…
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antidepressant side-effects, antidepressants, depression, evolutionary biology, placebo effect, PubMed, serotonin

Association between patient beliefs regarding assigned treatment and clinical response: reanalysis of data from the Hypericum Depression Trial Study Group

Author: Editorial 18th April 2022 0 Comments

This study has been published on the PubMed website. The abstract says: “Objective: To reanalyze data from a 2002 study by the Hypericum Depression Trial Study Group to determine whether patients who believed they were receiving active therapy rather than placebo obtained…
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antidepressants, depression, placebo effect, PubMed, Research

Antidepressants might be largely ineffective, study suggests

Author: Editorial 13th April 2022 0 Comments

The Daily Telegraph reports : “Antidepressants should be prescribed less routinely by doctors, scientists have said, after a study concluded there was no strong evidence that the drugs were effective. New research has indicated the side effects many patients suffer from…
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antidepressants, Daily Telegraph, Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, placebo effect, prescription drug side-effects, Research, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, University College London

Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription: Overmedicalisation, Flawed Research, and Conflicts of Interest

Author: Editorial 21st March 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Michael P. Hengartner. The publishers say: “This book addresses the over-prescribing of antidepressants in people with mostly mild and subthreshold depression. It outlines the steep increase in antidepressant prescription and critically examines the current scientific…
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antidepressants, books, depression, evidence-based practice, Michael Hengartner, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, Research

Antidepressants do not work better than a placebo, study finds

Author: Editorial 2nd February 2022 0 Comments

Eleanor Hayward Health, reporting for the Daily Mail, writes : “Doctors should stop prescribing antidepressants because there is no decent clinical evidence that they work better than a placebo, a study has found. About one in six British adults take the…
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antidepressants, Daily Mail, Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, Eleanor Hayward Health, Mark Harowitz, placebo effect, University College London

Time for Some Serious Thought about ‘Antidepressants’

Author: Editorial 10th January 2022 0 Comments

This blog post (2016) from Peter Hitchens has been published in the Daily Mail. It begins: “I expect to have more to say about this, but today’s BMJ? UCL/ Nordic Cochrane Centre analysis of research on ‘antidepressants’ should surely change the terms…
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antidepressants, Daily Mail, depression, Peter Hitchens, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, serotonin

The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the crisis of credibility in clinical research

Author: Editorial 3rd January 2022 0 Comments

This book has been co-authored by Prof. Jon Jureidini and Dr. Leemon McHenry. The publishers say: “An exposé of the corruption of medicine by the pharmaceutical industry at every level, from exploiting the vulnerable destitute for drug testing, through manipulation of…
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antidepressants, books, celexa, citalopram, evidence-based medicine, evidence-based practice, Jon Jureidini, Leemon McHenry, paroxetine, Paxil, pharmaceutical industry, Research

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