Saturday, August 1, 2015

Admission, Discharge and Readmission Policies - No Better Example Of Business Driven Pseudoscience

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One of the recurrent themes of this blog is that the application of science to medicine, especially at the public policy level has pl...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Silence on Pro Publica's Recent Big Pharma Payment Disclosures

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OK silence as far as psychiatry goes. For the past ten years we have heard both individual psychiatrists and monolithic ps...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Depression and the Genetics Of Large Combinations

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from:  CONVERGE consortium.  Nature. 2015 Jul 15. doi: 10.1038/nature14659. [Epub ahead of print] - see complete reference 1 bel...
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Sunday, July 12, 2015

Addiction and ADHD - The Bullet Points

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Figure 1.  from Shaw M, Hodgkins P, Caci H, et al. A systematic review and analysis of long-term outcomes in attention deficit hypera...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

Placebo - Nocebo Implications For Psychiatric Research and Clinical Care

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The words popped up this week in two separate journals that I read regularly.  In the New England Journal of Medicine, there was an o...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Lancet Psychiatry's Inconsistent Look At Conflict Of Interest

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The opening paragraphs of this editorial piece seemed promising, especially these lines: It's not just abou...
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Robust Doses of Extended-Release Mixed Amphetamine Salts To Treat Cocaine Use Disorder

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JAMA Psychiatry . 2015 Jun 1;72(6):593-602 This article (2) caught my eye in JAMA Psychiatry .  Stimulant (methamphetamine, cocain...