Saturday, December 30, 2017

The Nocebo Effect In Antidepressant Trials

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Early in my career I was an assistant to principle investigators who were doing clinical trials of drugs to treat generalized anxiety di...
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Friday, December 29, 2017

Language and the Nocebo Effect

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Arthur Barsky wrote an article in this week's JAMA entitled "The Iatrogenic Potential of the Physician's Words."  Dr...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

Less Is Less - A World of Difference Between Psychiatry and Cardiology

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I read Lisa Rosenbaum's opinion piece in this week's New England Journal of Medicine (1). She discusses both sides of the rati...
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Monday, December 11, 2017

Takotsubo's and Antidepressants

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Takotsubo's cardiomyopathy (TC) is a form of acute dilated cardiomyopathy.  It was first described in Japan in 1990 and since the...
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Saturday, December 2, 2017

How Will Electronic Pill Monitoring Be Accepted In A Post-Orwellian Society?

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Pretty well I would say. That is by definition.  Orwellian is a term that captures the world George Orwell described in his classic...
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Monday, November 27, 2017

Psychiatry or Anti-Psychiatry Blog How Do You Tell?

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I was recently e-mailed a graphic that declared "Top 100 Psychiatry Blog" and encouraged me to display it on my blog.  I was...
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Friday, November 24, 2017

Koch's Book On Consciousness

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I was pleasantly surprised to find this book.  I have been following the work of Guilio Tononi for some time and that involves reading ...