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October 21, 2009

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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October 8, 2009

More On Amygdala, Anxiety, and MRIs

After the last post, I thought, "perhaps I was too broad. Maybe too political, maybe I didn't have enough concrete examples."

Then I opened my mail.

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September 24, 2009

Will The Suicide Rate Change As The Population Ages?

The correct question would be: what will they do?

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September 22, 2009

As The Population Ages, Will Suicides Increase?

Don't bet your life on it.

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September 8, 2009

Unpublished Lamictal Studies Left Us Thinking It Was An Antidepressant

If you cheat on your wife, and later learn she had cheated on you, can you say you cheated because she cheated on you?

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August 26, 2009

Michael Jackson Died Of Overdose

But the question is, an overdose of what?

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June 16, 2009

Radio Host Has Drug Company Ties

No, not Rush Limbaugh.

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June 10, 2009

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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April 20, 2009

The Woman Who Can't Forget Is Awesome Because She Can Forget

Here's a question: when someone with OCD checks the stove twenty times, why wasn't fifteen times sufficient?

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February 23, 2009

Why No Progress Will Ever Be Made In Psychiatry

Do the past 50 years, post psychoanalysis, seem like marking time in psychiatry? A series of equally efficacious or toxic treatments being substituted for older versions that are ultimately not any different, all the while hearing the heralds proclaim the incredible advancements in "brain" diseases? Genetics, serotonin, BDNF!

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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February 16, 2009

The Bubble In Academic Research

And history is quite clear on this: once a bubble pops, it never reflates.

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February 13, 2009

MMR Vaccine Finally Cleared Of Assault

Listen carefully, medicos. It's the sound of your approaching irrelevance.

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February 9, 2009

Autism and The MMR Vaccine

Just as I was writing about the consequences of ideological bias in autism research...

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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February 3, 2009

Two Causes Of Autism

Ah, finally, a post about science only, that doesn't offend anyone.

Whoops, sorry, that's my other blog. In this blog, I write about how the parents cause autism.

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January 14, 2009

Treating Insomnia With Less

A grog of rum and an issue of The Economist should handle any sleep problems you may have. But, if you're one of those who think drinking alcohol is wrong but drinking psychiatric medications is right, then this is for you.

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January 9, 2009

The Chart Is Dead, Long Live The Chart

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December 17, 2008

Is Internet Addiction Really An Addiction?

Depends on your definition. Wovon man...

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December 15, 2008

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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December 4, 2008