Community-Based Treatment Beats Facilities in Low-Income Country Schizophrenia Study
Treatment by lay health workers is more effective than standard facility-based care at reducing disability and psychotic symptoms in people with schizophrenia diagnoses, according...
FDA Releases New Guidelines on Scientific Literature Used for Promotional Purposes
The FDA has released a new checklist meant to clarify the ways a pharmaceutical manufacturer may use scientific and medical literature to promote products....
J&J Takes Last Stab at $1.2B Risperdal Verdict
Lawyers for Johnson & Johnson took the stand in Arkansas today, a final effort at convincing the Arkansas Supreme Court to overturn a jury's...
Paternal Age Associated With Children’s Mental Health
A study in JAMA Psychiatry finds that the association between advanced paternal age and psychiatric and academic morbidity is stronger than previously estimated, and...
Effects of Psychotropic Drugs on Developing Brains: Protocol
Animal studies have raised concerns about SSRIs and ADHD stimulants inducing lasting abnormalities in the developing brain. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam are...
Expanded Health Insurance Reduces Psych Admissions
A study in JAMA Psychiatry finds that inpatient admissions for behavioral health disorders significantly declined following the 2006 expansion of health insurance coverage in...
Exposure to Family Distress in Childhood Affects Brain Development
Research from the University of East Anglia find that children who experienced chronic, but relatively common, family difficulties - such as arguments, tension, or...
Bullying Affects Mental and Physical Health Long-Term
Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital analyzed data from 4297 children surveyed over 3 time points (fifth, seventh and tenth grades) to find that bullying...
$1.5M Award in Child Tardive Dyskinesia Malpractice Lawsuit
A Chicago jury awarded $1.5 million to an autistic child who developed irreversible and disabling tardive dyskinesia and tardive akathisia while treated with Risperdal,...
Paxil Boosts Estrogen, May Promote Breast Cancer Growth
A trial of a new process of identifying drugs that can disrupt sex hormones singled out Paxil from 446 common drugs as having a weak...
Moving Schools Linked to Psychosis in Early Adolescence
Furthering findings that social adversity and urbanicity increase the risk of psychosis, research in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry finds that moving schools, family adversity,...
Adverse Emotional and Interpersonal Effects of Antidepressants
Adverse effects of antidepressants, including sexual difficulties and emotional numbing, apathy, suicidality and withdrawal effects may be more frequent than previously reported, according to...
Short “DUP” Predicts Better Outcome
A Hong Kong study links short "Duration of Untreated Psychosis" (DUP) to better long-term outcome. The authors propose that factors linked to long DUP...
Risperdal Lawsuit Website Launched
A website has been launched by the firm of Bernstein Liebhard LLP, who are filing cases on behalf of men and young boys who allegedly...
ADHD Medication Does Not Improve School Achievement
The journal Science reviews the current state of research on ADHD medication, finding that the drugs do not improve school performance or achievement in...
Shire Refocuses ADHD Drug To Treat Binge Eating
Shire, dissatisfied with the success - but not "resounding success" - of its amphetamine/amino acid combination Vyvanse, is developing the drug (which recently failed...
CT Continues to Block Access to Homicide Info After Sandy Hook
Connecticut continues to block public access to information on homicide investigations, according to the Connecticut News Times, an effort that began with concerns over...
Stress Impacts Brain Development
Research by a team at the University of California in Berkeley (including noted stress researcher Robert Sapolsky) published research in Molecular Psychiatry that finds chronic...
Disclosure Does Not Prevent Bias
A study from Lisa Cosgrove at Harvard's Safra Center for Ethics of potential conflicts of interest among DSM-5 committee members, investigators of new DSM-5 diagnoses,...
Cognitive Therapy is Safe & Effective for Schizophrenia, Without Drugs
In "the first randomised trial of cognitive therapy for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders not taking antipsychotic drugs", researchers from the U.K. found cognitive...
Bipolar Patients Have High Drug Burden — Especially Women
Over one third of people with bipolar diagnoses admitted to a Rhode Island hospital were on four or more psychiatric medications, says research published...
Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Increases Public Stigma
People who saw an advertisement for Cymbalta were less likely to offer help, endorse recovery, and have positive attitudes regarding self-determination towards people identified with...
“Give the Data to the People”
Harlan Krumholz, director of Yale University's Open Data Access Project (YODA), writes in the New York Times about YODA's agreement to oversee release of Johnson...
Traumagenic Neurodevelopmental Model of Psychosis — Revisited
The traumagenic neurodevelopment model of psychosis, introduced in 2001, highlighted similarities between brain abnormalities found both in people who have been abused and those...
Info Changes Parents’ Minds About Corporal Punishment
Although extensive research links spanking to behavior problems, parents who spank often believe it is the way to be an effective parent. Research from...
