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How Am I Going To Get Paid If It Isn't Autism?
But many children whose symptoms significantly differ from classic autism--who belong only on the milder end of the autism spectrum, if they belong anywhere on the spectrum at all--are inaccurately ending up with serious autism diagnoses.
Wait: it isn't what you think.
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More On Amygdala, Anxiety, and MRIs
Then I opened my mail.
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Will The Suicide Rate Change As The Population Ages?
The correct question would be: what will they do?
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As The Population Ages, Will Suicides Increase?
Don't bet your life on it.
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Unpublished Lamictal Studies Left Us Thinking It Was An Antidepressant
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Michael Jackson Died Of Overdose
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Radio Host Has Drug Company Ties
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Children With ADHD Drugs Score Higher on Tests
CHICAGO - Children on medicine for attention deficit disorder scored higher on academic tests than their unmedicated peers in the first large, long-term study suggesting this kind of benefit from the widely used drugs.
Wow. WOW. I get more actionable information from porn.
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The Woman Who Can't Forget Is Awesome Because She Can Forget
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Why No Progress Will Ever Be Made In Psychiatry
If it seems like countless billions in research money have not changed psychiatry at all over decades, it's because they haven't.
The first question a fertility doctor asks when she can't get pregnant: are you guys having sex?
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The Bubble In Academic Research
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MMR Vaccine Finally Cleared Of Assault
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Autism and The MMR Vaccine
Mea culpa, I will admit that I never read the primary sources either. If I had, this blog would not exist, I would have quit psychiatry in 1998 and opened a bar called Cougars and made a fortune.
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Two Causes Of Autism
Whoops, sorry, that's my other blog. In this blog, I write about how the parents cause autism.
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Treating Insomnia With Less
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The Chart Is Dead, Long Live The Chart
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Is Internet Addiction Really An Addiction?
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Self-Embedding Syndrome: What's Going On In Ohio?

A poster presented at the Radiological Society Of North America. Self-embedding syndrome: adolescents embed foreign bodies into their arms, hands, etc. In this x-ray, she's embedded 8 pieces of metal into her arm.
What caught my eye were two things: first, even though this is an old problem, the authors say this is the first study on this, suggesting that it's on the rise (enough for radiologists to notice.) Second, that it happened in Ohio-- which was, along with Indiana, was responsible for half of the youth suicide increase in 2007.
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The British Model Of Cost Effectiveness Fails On Philosophy
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Off Label Prescribing Turns Out To Be On Label
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