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Our letter to the New England Journal of Medicine on CBT and Zoloft for childhood anxiety disorders based on original post here (“Effects of Zoloft on Childhood Anxiety Incredible Indeed“) was published here with several others as well as a response from the authors. Mrs. Bremner and I criticized the use of “somewhat improved” over a [...]
This week the travelling blog team moves to Dubrovnik, Croatia, for the Sixth Annual Mind and Brain Conference, where I gave a talk about “PTSD and Brain Plasticity.” One of the main themes of the conference was neurofeedback, and we have conversations about consciousness and identity…
The news about the stop smoking drug Chantix just keeps getting worse. When my sister emailed a while back and said she was thinking of taking the drug to get off the weed, I said make sure you have your suicide hotline number handy…
This month’s American Journal of Psychiatry has a somewhat lame article on conflicts of interest regarding the pharmaceutical industry and psychiatry. Before I delve into this piece I must provide some background information, however. Psychiatry is divided into two sections, maybe three.
Mrs. Bremner and I played hooky from the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) Meeting on Friday to visit the Chicago Institute of Art, where they had an exhibition on the artist Edvard Munch,
This week’s issue of Nature Neuroscience has an article entitled “Beyond extinction: erasing human fear responses and preventing the return of fear.” Well if the title of the article wasn’t enough to get your juices rolling I can tell you that they basically claim that they have discovered a pill that will erase [...]
This has been quite a year for disturbing revelations about the corruption of the medical literature by pharmaceutical company interests. I wrote previously about ghost writing by Merck and others, and how papers were produced by drug companies that said “insert author here” and then they went out and shopped around for an author [...]
There has been some press that most of the members of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Psychiatry (DSM-V) task force are on the pharma payroll, but although sites like Public Citizen quote that 16/28 members are on the payroll, if you actually look at the list on the APA web site there are [...]
A quote from a physician describing the results of study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine on the effects of Zoloft (sertraline) or cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or a combination of the two on childhood anxiety disorders, describing the results of the study as “incredible”, lead me to take [...]
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